After decades of struggle, do Just 10 appearances in playoffs – And reaching the World Series only once – during their first 54 years of existence, the Astros of Houston in 2017 may have become the dominant team of the American League.
With two World Series championships since then, four trips to the classic fall and seven -seater as standard of AL championships – a sequence that was broken last year – the astros this season appear well on the way back to the playoffs, leading the Al West per five games.
The only obstacle so far was a series of injuries.
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Designated Yordan Alvarez was Limited to only 29 games with an injury in hand. The second goal player Jeremy Pena had his career year interrupted by a broken coast at the end the crushed since since. Voltigator Jake Meyers and Jacob Melton are also on the injured list.
The most recent and potentially the most devastating addition to the list of victims occurred on Saturday when the third goal player of the stars Isaac Paredes, who signed a year, $ 6.6 million contract With Houston before the season, was forced to leave a match against the Seattle Mariners with an injury to the hamstrings.
PARDES, whose ops .829 were Second just at Pena Among the regulars of the Astros, stopped lame while flowing a line of training on the wall at T-Mobile Park. After this match, PARDES, who missed three games in June with a left hammer injury, told journalists that this tension, to the rightwas worse.
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Tuesday, the manager of Astros Joe Espada Announced new information On the injury of PARDES, and it was not great.
“This is a fairly large injury,” said Journalists, quoted by Chandler Rome of athletics. “We are waiting for certain results, but it is certainly something that will keep it outside for a while.”
In fact, Espada seemed to recognize, Paredes could be absent for the rest of the season.
“We do not know yet,” said Esa, according to athletics. “But I know it’s something that will take time.”
The announcement throws a veil during the astros season. Houston was on a sequence of three consecutive victories before Wednesday’s match against the Arizona Diamondbacks, but a lost seven of his previous eight.
Director General Dana Brown had would have looked for upgrades To the Astros pitch staff, also riddled by injuries, but can now move their priorities for delay of commerce to the offensive side of the ball, according to the sports report.
Rome suggested that astros can target The third basic player in Colorado Rockies Ryan McMahon. But the stumbling block is that McMahon’s salary would put astros in luxury tax territory.
But the astros Have 17 players on the injured listIncluding five of the nine strikers in the opening day range, Rome reported. This is a difficult situation that could force the president of the Jim Crane team to give the green light to a few major movements on the commercial deadline of July 31.
Or he could just fell off the season.
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