Jeff Luhnow knew he had the green light for a revolution at the Astros.
When Jeff Luhnow was hired by Jim Crane, the billionaire owner of the Houston Astros, as general manager in 2011, he asked his new boss what the constraints were in his role. Crane looked at him and then handed him a piece of paper.In that moment, Jeff Luhnow knew he had the green light for a revolution at the Astros and in Evan Drellich exposes not only how his radical methods brought success to the team but how it also brought them crashing back down to earth.
The Houston Astros take the stage during the Houston Astros Victory Parade on November 3, 2017 in Houston. The victory would be short-lived.“Most of the people that worked for the Astros at that time were the f–king Island of Misfit Toys,” one Astros exec is quoted as saying. “Most of us could not have gotten a job in baseball elsewhere.”
Gradually, performances improved. In 2014, they hired AJ Hinch as manager and, the following year, they made the post-season play-offs for the first time since 2005. Which is why, two months into the 2017 season, the Astros set up a camera in center field trained solely on the opposition catcher, so they could zoom in on the signals he was giving and then relay the pictures to a television hanging in the team dugout.Collin McHugh of the Houston Astros delivers a pitch in the fourth inning during an MLB game against the Toronto Blue Jays in August 2019.“Once the signs were decoded, the Astros in the tunnel told the hitter what was coming by making noise.
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