The most hated team in baseball basically hired your grandpa to manage them. Baker has never managed a team as forward-thinking as the Astros. The next closest team would be the Nationals, and they were promptly ousted in the first round of the playoffs each time they made it under Baker’s watch. I can’t imagine this is going to go well for the Astros, so let me explain why.
Yes, it’s true that the Astros are cheating jerks, but they are also the most analytically-driven franchise in all of baseball. Spin rate, spin efficiency, launch angle, you name it.