At the end of the first complete week of the Major League Baseball season, teams are beginning to discover potential strengths and weaknesses about themselves. Is a hot start by a rookie just a flash in the pan? Is a veteran player’s struggling start just a slump, or an indicator of an issue his team will have to address? While those are big questions for MLB managers, they’re also factors our weekly Baseball Swarm has to consider.

Sometimes a team comes back the year after winning a championship, and they find that defending a title might be the only task in sport more difficult than winning that first one. But at least so far in 2018, the Astros seem to be taking to that challenge like a duck to water, and that’s perhaps one of the reasons the Baseball Swarm made them our pick of the night today.

With their hot start to the 2018 season, the Astros are putting to rest any notion that last year’s team was a one-off. They may have the deepest roster in the Major Leagues, and tonight their game with the rebuilding Padres looks like a mismatch to the swarm. The replay above shows a fast consensus forming for an Astros pick, and the group backed that conviction up by suggesting the maximum hypothetical wager they’re allowed.

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