Of course Astros fans are disappointed by the outcome of the ALCS. It’s easy to believe that a team that won two out of the last three Championship Series was entitled to win yet another.
Of course, going in, the team with the best record in the AL, the Rays, was facing the team with the worst record in the AL that managed to qualify for the expanded playoffs. The Rays wRC+ for the season was ten points higher than the Astros’, 109 to 99. The Rays’ team ERA was third in the league at 3.56, almost a run lower than that of the Astros at 4.