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The Huston Astros - A History of Baseball

The Houston astros were one of the worst teams in baseball history. To turn things around, they hired a fleet of math nerds. The stats team was called the nerd cave. They worked on sophisticated algorithms that would help the astros decide which players to draft and what strategies to execute on the field. In october 20 17, mike botiner was sitting at a bar watching the houston astros play game seven of the world series. This was only three months after final materly game.

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