The Crawfish Boxes · Jun 21, 2024
How goes the (base) stealing for the Astros right now?
Photo by Leslie Plaza Johnson/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesLast season saw MLB implement a series of new rules to add a bit more excitement and pace to the game (what, you mean everyone didn’t want to see the Houston way of dominant pitching, strategically designed shifts and all those things that made them the dominant force in the MLB?). There was emphasis on generating more stolen bases, with bigger actual bases and limiting pitchers to only two pickoff attempts per batter. In some ways, it worked for baseball writ large. For the Astros...meh.