re: The Astros are just turrible

I think the Astros are a bit too statistically oriented. They won't sign player X because they valued him at 4/$40 and he signed for 4/$45. At some point, you have to get real major leaguers out there and pay a little more for them. They remind me of a team in the NFL draft that keeps trading back because they got a bit of "value" on each trade, and ends up with 10 6th and 7th round picks and 3 3s for next year. (and I know they have top MLB draft picks, but they keep dumping their ML team to get them, and ML draft picks aren't nearly as valuable as NFL picks).