Altuve the outfielder adjusts Astros' PT

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Houston Astros
NEWS: Jose Altuve played LF in his first spring training game on Friday. 
IMPACT: High
BHQ SPIN: The news of Altuve in LF has only grown stronger in the early portion of spring training, and now with him actually playing out there in a spring game, we’ve become more convinced that this could take place during the regular season. While his overall AB projection hasn’t changed, we’ve adjusted the positional percentages to reflect our expectations of a 2B/OF split of sorts for Altuve’s playing time. That in turn opens up some second base PT, and we’ve added PT% at that position for Mauricio Dubón, Luis Guillorme and Brendan Rodgers. At least one of those will likely not make the team, at which...

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