Sorry, Houston Astros, your World Series trophy is in another castle. Well, that, or maybe Colby Rasmus got there first and is off somewhere throwing an epic celebration party without you.
After snapping a 10-year postseason drought in 2015, the Astros were considered favorites to reach the playoffs again in 2016 and perhaps contend for a World Series crown. Instead, they sputtered out of and never fully recovered, leaving them frustrated as the calendar flipped to October.
Like we’ll do with every eliminated team in our Game Over series, we’re about to examine what went wrong for the Astros, what went right, what’s the best 2016 memory, what they need to fix and what the future might hold.