This is my first periodic review or the Stros’ season in my third straight year of blogging the club, and the first 10% of the season has has initially justified my generally rosy pre-season outlook. The club has burst out of the gate with a Major League-best 11-5 record and, with the exception of the relief pitching, every other part of the club has been performing at above-expected levels so far.
As regular readers know, I’m a stathead with regard to analyzing baseball, so here are the key stats of the Stros’ hitters (pdf of hitting stats here) and pitchers (pdf of pitching stats here) through the first 16 games, courtesy of Lee Sinins‘ sabermetric Baseball Encyclopedia:

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