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The names atop the Astros lineup are familiar to even the most casual baseball observers. Second baseman Jose Altuve is the reigning American League Most Valuable Player, a dynamo with four 200-hit seasons and three batting crowns on his résumé prior to his age-28 season; a hitting savant gifted sublime hand-eye coordination and sensational bat-to-baseball talents. Outfielder George Springer is the archetypical slugger atop the order, armed with the dual ability to control the strike zone (career .366 on-base percentage batting first) and hit with power (75 homers over 368 games leading off) that set the standard for clubs to emulate and served as the foundation for his record-setting 29 total bases and 2017 World Series MVP. Shortstop Carlos Correa and third baseman Alex Bregman are the wunderkinds, top-of-the-draft talents (Correa went first overall in 2012, Bregman second three years later) who breezed through the minors and established themselves as ascendant stars in the big leagues with haste.
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