Just hopping back in to post the RPI of each team:
Given their run differential, RPI estimates the Astros should be 41-11. That's a ~128 win team! Have never seen anything like this. I think there's decent evidence their pitching staff is doctoring baseballs using pine tar (check out Trevor Bauer's tweetstorm on it with Buster Olney basically saying "who cares, it's not an enforced rule"), but regardless this is a historically good team, maybe the best of all time even.
Thanks for the great info - it is truly remarkable what the Astros have been able to do thus far. I appreciate the article as well - check out the updated power rankings, the latest edition will be out a little later today. I'm with you though, I've never seen anything like this either, it should be interesting to see how the pitching continues to perform going forward.
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