Or be consistently down in the count 0-2. The Astros don’t work counts because they swing at strikes. Now on the flip side, the Astros pitchers nibble when ahead of the counts as they’d rather strike guys out vs. pitching to contact. In the end, yes, there’s usually a disparity to opposing team’s pitch count vs. the Astros pitchers… and the Astros are still winning games with a healthy run differential.
What would you like them to do? The most common complaint in here is when they get early outs by “not working the count”. It does go largely ignored whenever they do damage with said early approaches. My only concern is if they’re swinging at hittable pitches or not. If they’re consistently getting themselves out by swinging at pitchers’ pitches (or pitches outside the zone), then by all means they need to change their approach. And if they’re not able to square up stuff thats in the zone… well sometimes the pitcher has a say in the outcome as well, no?
