Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology.

Good morning and welcome to episode 141 of Effectively Wild, the baseball

prospectus daily podcast. I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh and today we are

joined by Jason Collette. Jason, how are you? You're well guys, how you doing? Good.

So Jason is the author of the Astros chapter of the baseball

prospectus annual. We're gonna talk to him about the Astros after that. Pete

Barrett will talk to Richard Justice with MLB.com also about the Astros. So

Jason, you recently, about probably two months ago, three months ago, two

months ago, wrote comments about 70 different Astros baseball players. Just

out of curiosity, how many do you think you could name from scratch right now if

you didn't have a computer in front of you? 10. I think they haven't

they've traded about 60 since then. They've traded a lot of them. How many

could you name before you did the research for that chapter? And here's the

thing. I grew up as an Astros fan. That's the scary thing. I could

probably name more Astros fan. Astros players from the 80s that I can the

current roster right now. Uh-huh. Do it. Let's hear. Our Hal Terry

pool. Joe Sanbedo. I can keep going for a while. The current roster, I'm like

Chris Carter and Tyler Green only because I heard the other day that they

want him to lead off he of his career to 80 on base percentage. So that's

an interesting choice. Um, so the Astros are kind of an interesting team

because I I think that there's been an idea among fans over the last decade or

so that if you're as bad as the Astros, you shouldn't really bother too much

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