It is said too often of grown men who happen to be good at playing kids’ games that they are heroes.
Jose Altuve and Carlos Correa are heroes.
The essence of heroism is the willingness to undergo pain or sacrifice for the good of others. We all saw the hobbled Jose Altuve last Fall, at times suppressing agony, walking with a pained limp, and yet on the field making making maximum effort, even running with his usual haste to transform routine ground outs into infield hits. And then he’d limp...Again.
As manager A.J. Hinch said (I paraphrase) “He shouldn’t have been playing, but you try telling that to Jose Altuve.