On Baseball: How The Astros Built A Contender From The Ground Up

TYLER KEPNER, New York Times: Baseball
Sun, 10/15/2017 - 5:47pm

Jeff Luhnow, Houston’s general manager, used savvy draft strategies to turn around a club that was among baseball’s worst five years ago.

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