Jose Altuve hasn’t really played an entire season at the peak of health since he won the 2017 MVP Award, the year the Astros won it all. He is set to begin the upcoming season with his knee issues now fully behind him and aiming to be back on top of the leaderboards.
Rewinding back to the 2018 season, Altuve missed 21 days with soreness in his right knee after sliding into second base in a late July game. When he returned off of the Disabled List he was never the same. The pain nagged at him the remainder of the season and his performance suffered as a result.