Selling High: David Pinto of Baseball Analytics writes about how, given each player’s unsustainable BABIP, the Astros sold on Hunter Pence and Michael Bourn at just the right time.

Bourn vs. Pence: Maybe the most curious trade deadline phenomenon (from a sabermetric perspective) was the fact that Hunter Pence received more hype — and got a better trade return — than Michael Bourn, despite Bourn being the better player by various versions of WAR… With more on this, here’s ESPN’s David Schoenfield and Baseball Nation’s Rob Neyer.