The Houston Astros have been one of the most interesting teams in all of baseball this season, and a large part of that has been due to the absurd number of injuries they’ve been forced to endure. No team in baseball has been bitten harder by the injury bug than the Stros have, and no team has lost as many key players as they have, either. As absurd as it may seem, Houston currently has 16 players on the shelf due to injury, a figure that includes five members of their starting rotation and six hitters from their Opening Day lineup. It seems impossible that any team that has endured such an enormous amount of attrition would be able to put together any sort of success, but that’s exactly what the Astros have done.