Justin Verlander's New York Mets career has ended after four months, while his Houston Astros career is resuming from its five-and-a-half years.
, most notably because they entered Tuesday with a 50-55 record and six games back from the third and final NL wild-card spot. This year's market is notably lacking in quality starting pitchers, allowing the Mets to offload the two highest-paid players in baseball and receive an impressive return in prospects for a farm system that needed them.
This Astros team isn't much like the Astros teams Verlander starred for, though. The team currently sits a half-game back from the Texas Rangers for first in the AL West and is in the second AL wild-card spot, with a +59 run differential that indicates they aren't quite the machine they were from 2017 through 2022. The Astros have made a hard pivot toward a more traditional approach to player analysis and development, with mixed results.
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