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A review by srgower
Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess by Evan Drellich
3.0
I received an Advance Reader Copy from Harper Collins.
I found this to be an interesting look at the operations inside the Houston Astros from 2011 to 2020, which included the 2017 cheating scandal (and a short look at some of the ongoing cheating around the league from 2018-2019). I thought that the look at the operations and the background of the parties involved - particularly Jeff Lunhow - was full of details that illustrated how the team wound up using electronic sign stealing in 2017, and showing no real remorse or accountability about it.
However detailed those opening chapters might be, I felt at times it was disjointed and jumped around a little too much, and some threads were just lost entirely. At different points I found it hard to follow who Drellich was talking about, though I credit that partly to how I was coming back to reading the book. It was interesting that the "pace" of the book picked up considerably once Drellich came to the cheating scandal, although I think that could be my own inference. I found that part of the narrative more compelling than the rest of it.
Overall I enjoyed the read but I think it could use a little extra polish to push it an extra star or two.
I found this to be an interesting look at the operations inside the Houston Astros from 2011 to 2020, which included the 2017 cheating scandal (and a short look at some of the ongoing cheating around the league from 2018-2019). I thought that the look at the operations and the background of the parties involved - particularly Jeff Lunhow - was full of details that illustrated how the team wound up using electronic sign stealing in 2017, and showing no real remorse or accountability about it.
However detailed those opening chapters might be, I felt at times it was disjointed and jumped around a little too much, and some threads were just lost entirely. At different points I found it hard to follow who Drellich was talking about, though I credit that partly to how I was coming back to reading the book. It was interesting that the "pace" of the book picked up considerably once Drellich came to the cheating scandal, although I think that could be my own inference. I found that part of the narrative more compelling than the rest of it.
Overall I enjoyed the read but I think it could use a little extra polish to push it an extra star or two.