Every season, there are usually a few surprises with each team—a variety of overperformance or underperformance. Whether good or bad, the level of those surprises varies, but you can count on someone playing differently than what was expected back in February and March. For the Astros, who are currently 56-40 at the All-Star break, they’ve had quite a few surprises on both ends of the spectrum. I mean, the entire IL is filled with roughly 62% of what would qualify as a Major League roster by itself.
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As you can see from the list above, the Astros have faced their fair share of injury problems.