You make a lot of strong points.3 Toed Pete said:
There were a lot of baseball people that did not like the Astros tanking for 3 seasons and were critical of "who can't win with all of those top draft picks". Not to mention Crane was the new kid in the league. As everyone knows, they took statistics to a whole new level with the defensive shifts and a lot of people didn't like that. That was a really big change in defensive baseball with how often the SS was lined up to the right of second base (or shifted the other way). And apparently there were a lot of people in the league that think Luhnow and his staff were pretty arrogant. The sign stealing scandal was their chance to pounce.
I am big fan of Luhnow and think he got a bad deal in all of this. He is the best GM of any Houston team ever (and I think Hunsicker did a phenomenal job seeing as how he always had Drayton and his "that's not how we did it in the grocery business" meddling looking over his shoulder).
The Astros changed the game, no doubt.
I think it's time, and I think I can speak for all of the Astros fanbase when I say...
