Astros warned not to repeat same mistake Phillies made over 10 years ago
The Astros are approaching a crossroads.
Astros warned not to repeat same mistake Phillies made over 10 years ago originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Houston Astros are not having a good 2026 season.
At 20-31, the Astros are only five games out of a playoff spot, but they're well below . 500. Things easily could continue to spiral out of control, and come the August 3rd trade deadline, the Astros might be facing a few paths forward as a franchise.
With such a difficult question looming, ESPN's David Schoenfield warned the Astros not to make the same mistake the Philadelphia Phillies made over 10 years ago. That mistake? The Phillies didn't sell at the right time.
Astros warned not to repeat Phillies' mistake from 2013 "The key players are getting old or older -- and, similar to the Phillies, the next generation hasn't stepped up," Schoenfield writes. "Though the Phillies kept banking on Halladay getting healthy, it didn't happen -- and then Lee got hurt as well. The result was a decade of losing.