[Passan] Astros should trade for Seth Lugo

Article centers around who each team that is currently in a seeded position should acquire. Here is Passan’s full quote on the Astros:

“The Astros lost Alex Bregman to free agency, traded Kyle Tucker to the Chicago Cubs, have spent most of the season without Yordan Alvarez, their best hitter, and currently sport a rotation that includes 26- and 28-year-old rookies. There is no reason they should be this good. And yet they are.

So even if the cost is heavy and eats into a farm system that's among the worst in MLB, targeting a pitcher of Lugo's ilk would give them among the nastiest postseason rotations in the game and further entrench the Astros as a force. Lugo's peripherals suggest he's in line for regression but even if his ERA does jump from its current 2.67 mark, his nine-pitch mix gives him the flexibility to adjust in-game — a luxury shared by only a handful of starters in the game.”

Passan also said that, in addition to starting pitching, our biggest need is a left-handed bat, but did not make a trade proposal for that need.