Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow used emojis to draw out the No. 7 on Twitter on Thursday night. For once, that number wasn’t meant to represent the franchise’s first Hall of Famer, Craig Biggio.
Two years after setting a franchise record for minor league teams in the playoffs with six, the Astros bested that mark with seven teams in the postseason: Class AAA Fresno, Class AA Corpus Christi, High Class A Lancaster, Low Class A Quad Cities, short-season Tri-City, rookie level Greeneville and one of the Astros’ two Dominican Summer League teams, the Blue team, all made it.