One of the best baseball writers of our time, Mike Petriello, wrote an intriguing article about the Astros pitching staff published by MLB.com. In This staff could be Majors’ most dominant ever, Petriello uncovered this rather amazing statistical nugget; that the Astros staff in 2019 has the lowest on base percentage in history.
While acknowledging the greatness of the 2018 Astros staff, Petriello suggested, despite the losses the staff underwent in the off-season, that perhaps the 2019 staff is even better. This based on the following criterion, that with a historic, all-time low, .