When you play 162 game seasons every year, it’s always hard to assess where you are after only 12 games. But for the Houston Astros, they are looking as well placed as ever before. Even with a good chunk of last season’s team gone, the ones that have been the quintessential “replacements” have surely been stepping it up.
As Alyson Footer of MLB.com reported from Skipper A.J. Hinch back towards the very beginning of camp, the team is looking at a number of different factors for who makes the big league squad and who gets cut.