The Astros start another week hovering around the .500 W/L range. Not a lot of excitement to write about. So, let’s try the 3 Astros Things. A smorgasbord of Astros items, for your consideration.
- Astros Pitching Staff Groundball Rate.
Chandler Rome at the Athletic wrote about Framber Valdez’s uneven start to the season and how it relates to his sinker and ground ball rate. Rome raised a warning flag about Valdez’s problematic sinker and the decline in Framber’s ground ball rate. As Rome states, for Valdez’s sinker, the problem highlights “the delicate balance he is walking without his predominant pitch, one where even the slightest uptick in velocity can affect its wicked movement.