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Home Houston Astros Jose Altuve Has Reached A Exceptional Milestone

Jose Altuve Has Reached A Exceptional Milestone

by MLB News

 

Houston Astros infielder Jose Altuve is among the greatest gamers of his era.

He has been an ever-present determine within the Astros’ run of dominance within the American League, from 2017 to 2022.

To be honest, he was already a star even earlier than then.

He has received batting titles, Silver Sluggers, and even the 2017 AL MVP, to not point out two World Sequence with Houston.

The checklist of achievements doesn’t finish there, although.

On Friday, Altuve swiped his third base of the week and seventh of the season.

That base additionally had some historic which means: it was the three hundredth of his profession, and the league congratulated him for his new accomplishment.

Congratulations to Jose Altuve on his three hundredth profession stolen base 👏 pic.twitter.com/fP10M3SidT

Stealing 300 bases will not be for everybody: it not solely requires velocity and agility, but in addition longevity and consistency.

Altuve has proven all these traits and extra over the course of his sensible profession.

There he’s, about to show 34, and nonetheless exhibiting his wheels and serving to his staff.

He has mixed that velocity with unbelievable bat-to-ball abilities (.308 profession batting common) and energy (216 dwelling runs over his MLB tenure).

He nonetheless has a protracted solution to get there, however he might finally turn into the ninth member of the 300-300 membership: gamers with a minimum of 300 dingers and 300 thefts.

To this point, solely Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Steve Finley, Reggie Sanders, Willie Mays, Andre Dawson, Carlos Beltran, and Bobby Bonds are members of that membership.

For now, Altuve is firmly within the 200-300 membership, along with different 23 gamers.

He’s higher than ever in 2024, hitting a cool .348/.411/.576 with seven homers, seven steals, and a .987 OPS.

It seems like he’s nonetheless in his prime.

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