The Astros are run by smart people who do the baseball better than you would. They just won the World Series, while you would have screwed everything up, like you did with your fantasy team.
The Astros are really putting four players in the outfield now
The early returns suggest that it just might work, at least against Joey Gallo.
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Now that we’ve established this, let’s talk about them doing weird and clever baseball things.
That is very weird! And possibly clever. It’s like Joey Gallo is a human game of rock-paper-scissors, and the Astros are trying out “vat of acid” without asking.
It ... worked. Immediately.
That would be third baseman Alex Bregman showing off his range and catching a ball about 290 feet from home plate. We knew that Gallo was a three true outcomes guy, but it’s easy to forget that it’s more like three-and-a-half when you include monstrous fly balls. Looks like this shift is built to mess with him.
We’ve seen this outfield before, but we haven’t seen it work this perfectly, and certainly not on Opening Day the first time a team tries it. Gallo was always a threat to hit 40 home runs with a .190 batting average, but this is the shift that might get him there sooner than you think.
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