If there is one complaint I constantly read about the Astros’ offense last season, it was their propensity to ground into a double play. And those complaints were valid as Houston led the majors (by a fair margin) last season with 156 GIDPs. For context, the A’s were in second-place with 136. And guess who was the chief offender for the Astros? Yuli Gurriel, with 22 double plays, which only trailed Manny Machado (26) and Manny Rojas (23) out of all qualified major league hitters in 2018.
Fast forward nearly an entire calendar year and the Astros still ground into a lot of double plays.