PT TOMORROW: AL West—AB at risk II
May 19 2015
Obviously an improved offense is one of the big reasons for HOU's early success. The Astros were virtually neck-and-neck with three other AL teams for fourth in AL scoring entering Monday, vs. finishing next-to-last in 2014. But this isn't so much because the 2014 HR-or-nothing approach augmented via off-season acquisitions suddenly works, as some analysts have hinted. Between the new faces and many years of minor league development that are beginning to bear fruit, the Astros suddenly have more positional depth and versatility than any AL West team, which thus far has prevented the lineup from struggling for too long.
An example of this has been Preston Tucker (OF, HOU), promoted in the middle of a scoring drought (18...
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