As the trade deadline approaches, rumors begin to swirl, retrospectives are done, and past trends are looked at to determine what will happen in the near future. One thing we often don't think or hear about is the trades that never came to be. For the Houston Astros, one such failed deadline deal recently came to light, and we can all breathe a sigh of relief that it didn't happen.
Speaking with Chandler Rome and Tyler Stafford on the Crush City Territory podcast, former Astros president of baseball operations Jeff Luhnow brought to light that he almost made a franchise-altering trade, sending Jose Altuve to Kansas City in exchange for Eric Hosmer back in 2013.