For a franchise that has accomplished so much over the past decade, there’s something shameful, even humiliating about raising the 2026 AL West banner. That’s because these Astros are, by record, the single worst division winner in the sport’s long past. Before Sunday, no team with a .500 record or below had ever reached the postseason.
But Houston rewrote history thanks to an MVP-caliber season from Yordan Alvarez and a tidal wave of mediocrity from its AL West counterparts. Their inclusion in the October jamboree is more an indictment of the Texas Rangers and the Seattle Mariners than anything else, but the Astros at least ended on a high…
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