Commentary: The Bad shopping cart
There is something I needed to get off my chest, but I wanted to keep it out of…
In the Lab: Left Fielder BPO
If any position serves as a microcosm of the Astros 2025 season it is left field. It started…
In the Lab: Jeff Kent and the Hall of Fame Index
We usually would be continuing on with our outfielders and bases per out, but this is the perfect…
In the Lab: Shortstop BPO
In this edition, we are going to play agent for Jeremy Pena. There is no drama over whether…
In the lab: Third Base BPO
The in the lab feature has just gotten off the ground, but we have already had a number…
In the Lab: Astros First Base BPO
“I come to praise Caesar not to bury him.” — William Shakespeare Bill James once said that numbers…
In The Lab: Astros Catching BPO
We saw in our previous piece that the Astros stood in 19th in MLB with a .651 team…
In the Lab: A primer on bases per out
Obviously, we are in a state of transition here, so this seemed like a perfect opportunity for a…
Revisionist history | The Crawfish Boxes
I have a beef. There is an increasingly common conception that Dusty Baker is looking better and better…