The Astros enjoy a very high probability of winning the AL West (98.4% according to Fangraphs and 99.7% according to Baseball Prospectus). With 9 games left in the season, let’s examine how the team’s performance has been trending this month. This may be relevant to how the Astros will perform over the next nine games, and also inform us about the momentum that the team carries into the playoff (assuming the Astros win the division).
To be clear, I don’t know that the performance over the last couple of weeks of the season (whether high or low level) creates any momentum (or lack of momentum) going into the playoffs.