Zach Dezenzo, the 36th-most positively impactful Astro of 2024
Zach Dezenzo made his major league debut with the Astros in 2024.
Zach Dezenzo was Houston’s 36th most positively impactful Houston Astro in 2024.
On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays through the first part of Houston’s post-postseason, we’re running down the 40 most positively impactful Astros in 2024. I used both quantity and quality in these rankings, For hitters, I used OPS+ and plate appearances, taking the product of those two numbers. I repeated the process for the pitchers, only substituting ERA+ and batters faced, respectively. This way, each PA (or BF) is a constant currency for the player in question. One Babe Ruth plate appearance is worth more on the open market than one Pee Wee Reese plate appearance, and so each of Yordan Alvarez’ plate appearances is worth more than a Chas McCormick plate appearance.
So if you were very bad, but not for very long, your negative impact will be negated through the brevity of your sucktitude. On the other hand, a great month’s worth of PA’s can only lift you so far if you just showed up late in the season (apologies to Ben Gamel and Justin Upton).
So far, we’ve been limited to a few bit-part players in the grand scheme of things, with Parker Mushinski (50 BF), Jake Bloss (55 BF), Shay Whitcomb (46 PA) and Cesar Salazar (32 PA) getting an article each. Zach Dezenzo, with 65 PA, was the number 36 most positively impactful member of the 2024 Houston Astros.
