This offseason is weird. After trades that saw the departure of once and future prospects Domingo Santana, Josh Hader, Brett Phillips, Jacob Nottingham, Mark Appel, Vince Velasquez, and a couple of other names I'm probably forgetting, the Astros find themselves in a position we haven't seen since 2004: Expectations.
Here is a basic summary of Astros offseasons since they last went to the World Series:
2006: The Astros saw the writing on the wall of their 2005 World Series team and started to draft well and reload and plan for the future. Oh, no. Wait.