Any takeaways from the Astro's world series win and how they accomplished it?

The Astros were in a position to draft very well over the last few years and got Bregman, Correa, Springer and Gurriel

The Astros have an MVP caliber 2nd baseman in Altuve

The Astros have an experienced and capable DH in Beltran

The Astros spent the money and got the best SP (Verlander) available at the last minute

The Astros got McCann who helped them a lot

Interesting for those who claim lineup posiitioning doesn't matter. The Astros stacked their lineup with the first 5 doing the bulk of the damage. Also note they have a low strikeout rate.

So, the Sox draft position will not allow them to build up the way the Astros have. We got Castillo and they got Gurriel. We on paper had better relief pitching and possibly better starting pitching top to bottom but they are the best hitting team and can make up for the pitching deficit.

So we get Cora and hope that some of the hitting success of the Astros can be transferred to our young guys. Lets not get too wound up about power hitters with long uppercut swings. The Dodgers had those and they were striking out at a high rate against good pitching. Lets get contact hitters with some power, like Nunez.