The defending World Series champion Houston Astros may very well be better than they were a year ago. They are currently playing their best baseball of the season having won their 10th game in a row today defeating the Kansas City Royals 10-2.
Yet despite playing on all eight cylinders, the Astros are only a half game ahead of the Seattle Mariners in the AL West. The Mariners have been on a roll since Robinson Cano's 80-game PED suspension which prompted me to pose the question if the team is better off without him. At the time of that post, the Mariners had gone 11-5 since Cano's departure from the team. As of this writing, the Mariners are now 23-8 without Cano. That's almost a .750 winning percentage.
At the moment, the Astros and Mariners are every bit as strong in the AL West as the Red Sox and Yankees are in the AL East.
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