The Houston Astros may “suffer a major blow” after receiving bad news about a $60 million signing.
dominating club in 2025, they may have suffered “a major blow” to that objective on Wednesday when their offseason’s greatest free agency addition suffered an injury, one that he had previously experienced, according to the Houston Chronicle.
The Houston Astros, who joined the National League as an expansion team in 1962 under the name Houston Colt.45s, were a futile endeavor for the first 54 years of their existence. It wasn’t until 2005 that the team even made it to the World Series, let alone won one. During that period, they only made ten postseason appearances.
And one of those occurred during the 1981 season, which was cut short by a strike. The 1981 season was divided into two uneven “halves” by MLB due to a players’ labor stoppage that occurred in the middle of the season. Houston earned a spot in the playoffs by winning the “second half” of the NL West with a 33-20 record, even though they finished third overall.
The Astros offered to go to the AL West when MLB underwent a minor divisional restructuring in 2013, and they immediately had the worst season in team history, dropping 111 games and finished 45 games behind the Oakland Athletics, who won the division.
The Astros aim to maintain their eight-year winning streak.
It added to the remarkableness of their comeback beginning in 2017. With the exception of the shortened 2020 COVID season, the Astros dominated the AL West division after that year and finished first each year. As a matter of fact, the Astros have dominated the American League for the past eight seasons, winning two World Series during that time, making four appearances, and qualifying for the ALCS each season, including 2020, until last year.
Despite winning their division once more, the 2024 season was considered a “down” year by recent Astros standards. The Astros were forced to play in the Wild Card stage after finishing with just 88 victories, their lowest number in a regular season since 2016. The Detroit Tigers thrashed them in two consecutive games.
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