Team Fielding Series: Houston Astros

The Astros finished with the worst record in franchise history. When you lose more then 100 games there is going to be a lot of facets of the game where you are weak. I know you are going to be shocked to hear that the Astros were not a good fielding team last season. In point of fact, they haven’t been a good fielding team in quite some time. One of the hallmarks of a lack of analysis is the lack of success in nearly every facet of the game. The Astros don’t get on base, they don’t hit for power, outside of Michael Bourn they didn’t run the bases and they don’t support their pitchers. As you might imagine, matching young pitchers with bad fielding has disastrous results. DER: .680 (28th) RA: 796 (28th) FLD%: .981 (25th) Baseball Reference: +24 runs (8th) Fangraphs: -16.6 runs (23rd) Fielding Bible: -14 runs (22nd) Baseball Prospectus: -5.7 (21st) Composite Runs: -3.1 The four fielding systems are actually quite kind to the Astros given their DER. Even their fielding pe...