Hader, Pressly, and Brown having an 0-7 record at this point in the season would not have been something anybody would’ve predicted a month ago; flip that around to something more expected like 4-3 and the Astros are 11-14 and nobody is panicking.
Everything else pretty much makes sense. Nobody should’ve expected Arrighetti, Henley, Suero, or Scott to pitch well enough to win games. Hell, 6 months ago nobody would’ve even expected any of those guys to have thrown a pitch for Houston this early in the season.
The Astros season got completely derailed by pitching injuries. That might be something to blame on the front office, but I don’t see how any organization absorbs constantly having 5 of their best 7 SP on the IL for the first month of the season. They really needed a lot more out of Hunter Brown and France, 2 guys who were relatively established compared to their other healthy options. And then Brown’s bedshitting got compounded by Hader and Pressly running into horrendous luck.