Our hitting philosophy has not changed recently, we have always swung early

I'm tired of reading so many comments suggesting that this is a sudden change with our approach to the plate.

Our championship winning Astros team has NEVER been a team the would rack up the pitch count to knock the starters out early. Our Stros swing when they get a pitch they like, that has never changed.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2024-pitches-batting.shtml

Here you can see our Pit/PA for our batters.

As you can see by going to previous seasons, we have only seen more Pit/PA ONCE since 2015.

Every other season is either exactly league average or below league average.

Come up with a new angle as to why our team is underperforming please