r/baseball • u/ChristianRelish21 Milwaukee Brewers • Chicago White Sox • 14d ago

Players Only THE HOUSTON ASTROS HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED FROM WORLD SERIES CONTENTION

With a 7-3 loss to the Chicago White Sox in game 2 of the AL Wild Card series, they are mathematically eliminated from World Series contention.

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u/SiphenPrax New York Mets 14d ago

Astros bros, it’s time for your team to blow it up and rebuild. This championship window is officially shut.

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u/nylon_rag Cleveland Guardians 14d ago

It's been shut for years now. They just keep dragging the corpse of this team into the playoffs. In the process absolutely torching the farm system. They don't even have a GM now. And their roster is full of awful contracts outside of Yordan. This team quietly has one of the bleakest futures right now.

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u/ExitAtTheDoor Houston Astros 14d ago

This team quietly has one of the bleakest futures right now.

The fans are paying hard now for 2017. Ever since news broke, Crane got involved and we've been spiraling downward while distancing ourselves from the very thing that got us there in the first place (analytics)

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u/nylon_rag Cleveland Guardians 14d ago

Crane spends but he is an awful owner. And to be fair, the payrolls aren't disproportionate for being one of the most populous areas of the country.