One can only wonder what this year would look like for the Houston Astros without Jeremy Pena. The breakout star from the 2022 playoffs after he replaced the departed Carlos Correa and won the ALCS and World Series MVP Awards is in the midst of the best regular season of his career. Pena is also on pace to shatter his previous career-highs in home runs and RBI, finally becoming the player everyone imagined he would be when he burst onto the scene during that prolific playoff run but failed to follow that up in a substantial manner. According to FanGraphs, only two players in Major League Baseball have been more impactful than Pena, with his fWAR of 3.9 trailing just Aaron Judge and Cal Raleigh, the two frontrunners for AL MVP.