The other day I wrote about how ugly the Astros’ lineup looks after trading away Hunter Pence, Michael Bourn, and Jeff Keppinger.
But as Steve Campbell of the Houston Chronicle points out, the lineup is incredibly inexperienced in addition to being really, really bad:
Carlos Lee has 7,967 career plate appearances, or four more than the rest of the position players on the active roster combined. Three of those players--second baseman Jose Altuve, left fielder J.D. Martinez and third baseman Jimmy Paredes--have made the jump from Class AA in the past three weeks.
Campbell goes on to write about the odd situation Carlos Lee is in on a terrible, rebuilding team, for which he can thank a contract no other teams wanted any part of at the trade deadline. Houston is 366-412 since signing Lee to a six-year, $100 million deal in November of 2006 and despite being in a steep decline at age 35 he’s still owed $18.5 million for next season.
