Four Thoughts on the Houston Astros Heading Into 2024 Season

It's interesting to think of how high the bar has become for the Houston Astros on the local landscape, especially when juxtaposed with the Texans and the Rockets, who empirically aren't anywhere close to where the Astros are in their sport, and yet fans in Houston feel nothing but sheer bliss for both of those teams, because, hey, at least they're both relevant again.

The Astros, meanwhile, have been to seven straight League Championship Series, won two World Series in the last seven seasons, been to two more, are third on the board for World Series odds, and yet it feels like there is way more major concern over the Astros than the Rockets or Texans. Such is life when the bar is, at a minimum, being among the final four teams standing.

I feel like we KNOW two things — first, the Houston Astros are a very, very talented baseball team, and second, they will need a handful of guys to have much better seasons in 2024 than they did in 2023 if they're going to get back to the winner's circle again in November. As the Yankees come to town on Thursday to open the season, here are my four biggest questions for the Astros this season:Bregman is in the final season of the six-year deal he signed back in 2017.

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