Astros bring back former catcher Brad Ausmus as their manager after Joe Espada exit
- Newsrooms
- 3
- Last 3 hours
- 5 reports
- Momentum
- Surging
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 4 to 5 newsrooms by 11:48am AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 58% of the past week’s 3844 stories, and number 181 of 1097 in Sport.Related
Brad Ausmus breaks silence on becoming Astros next manager (shares Brad Ausmus and Houston Astros)
1File photo: Brad Ausmus
Brad Ausmus was named manager of the Houston Astros on Wednesday
In ABC News’s words.2
Background: Brad Ausmus
Bradley David Ausmus is an American former professional baseball player, manager and current coach. He is the manager for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). In his 18-year MLB playing career, Ausmus played as a catcher for the San Diego Padres, Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros, and Los Angeles Dodgers. He also managed the Tigers, Los Angeles Angels, and Israeli national baseball team.3
The story so far
3 newsrooms- Reports
- 8
- Newsrooms and sources
- 3
- Last 3 hours
- 5
First with it: The Athletic, 1 hr 37 min before anyone else.
Reported by 3 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: Yahoo Sports and ABC News (the same headline).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
How it spread
Newsrooms reporting it, each counted at its first report.
- Newsrooms
- 3
- Over
- 14.9 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 14.9 hr
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 11:55am AEDT | The Athletic | 1 |
| 1:32pm AEDT | Yahoo Sports | 2 |
| 2:46am AEDT | New York Post | 3 |
Bigger than 95% of Sport stories this week. Reached three newsrooms in 14.9 hr; a typical Sport story that gets there takes 7.2 hr.
Where it’s heading
Probably peakedStories in this position rarely added another newsroom from here.
Likely 4 to 5 newsrooms by 11:48am AEDT (4 most likely), and 4 to 5 by Fri, 13 Nov, 5:48am AEDT. 4 now.
| When | Likely range | Most likely |
|---|---|---|
| Now | 4 | 4 |
| In 1 hours (6:48am AEDT) | 4 to 4 | 4 |
| In 3 hours (8:48am AEDT) | 4 to 4 | 4 |
| In 6 hours (11:48am AEDT) | 4 to 5 | 4 |
| In 12 hours (5:48pm AEDT) | 4 to 5 | 4 |
| In 24 hours (5:48am AEDT) | 4 to 5 | 4 |



