Meet the 2025 Astros. They look a lot like the 2024 Astros, a team that won their division before taking a sudden tumble in the AL Wild Card Series at the hands of Detroit. This season, at 68-53 (.562), the Astros are looking to top that. They’re first in the AL West, albeit just one game up on a surging Seattle, who is 9-2 in August (at least before they ran into the buzzsaw that is the 2025 Orioles, that is. Heh. Heh.).

As for Houston, despite several noteworthy moves at the Trade Deadline (a Carlos Correa reunion, trading for Ramón Urías, and obtaining lefty OF Jesús Sánchez), they’ve been a little cool since the All-Star break, with a sub-.500 win percentage in July and a 6-6 record in August.

Injuries have hurt, especially the rotation: starters Ronel Blanco, JP France, Luis García,

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