Maybe it’s not a rejection of the sort of analysis general manager Jeff Luhnow and his data team have brought to the Astros in their brief tenure. Maybe it’s an understanding. A manager’s impact on the game in the sense of his in-game decisions, the ordering of his lineup and so on can be vastly overrated. The best and worst managers in the game, from the strategic sense, are just a game or three apart over the course of a season if you can even judge what’s best and worst with so much statistical noise out there. So as Luhnow and owner Jim Crane evaluated former manager Brad Mills, they [...]