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In a season as long as the major leagues one can see how teams can recover from weaker starts. In the American League West division we have that example, not with one team, but with two teams that were called to fight for the divisional title that did not start in the best way, the Houston Astros, current champions of that division, and the Texas Rangers, who are the World Series champions, They are teams with payrolls that when analyzed we can notice their depth, but in the first months of the campaign they have not been able to consolidate and neither have they been able to weave chains of victories that take them to the first places of the aforementioned division, but in the last two weeks they have shown signs of recovery and in the case of the Astros they are already only 2 games behind the Mariners who lead the West.

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It seems that the Steelers have overcome a series of obstacles, the injuries of their main starting pitchers undoubtedly diminished their performance, in the first two months of the season they were in last place in the division and even the Oakland Athletics were above them, now they have those starters that were so lacking and the offense is showing its true face, Along the way, decisions had to be made to give a 180 degree turn to what was happening with the Houston team, they left Cuban Jose Abreu, who just 4 seasons ago was the most valuable of the American League, Ronel Blanco who was not in the Astros' plans has been the emblematic pitcher, with 8 wins and effectiveness of 2. In the strikeout department, Hunter Brown is the club's top exponent with 100 strikeouts. Offensively, the trident formed by Altuve, Tucker and Álvarez are giving the expected results, and everything indicates that we will see the Astros in the playoffs again in one way or another.

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The Texas Rangers are another of the teams that have shown a slight improvement, not like the Astros, but during the weekend they showed positive signs by sweeping the Tampa Rays in the weekend series, combined with Seattle's losses, they are only 6 games away from the lead, with just over half of the season left, the advantage is not that big and even more so with a lot of games between the Mariners and the Astros, Both Texans and Astros have benefited from the fact that the Mariners did not know how to take advantage of the uncertain beginnings of this pair of teams to move away in the American League West, now comes the good part with these teams recovered and with the moves that they can make in the trade market, the Rangers must look for pitching at all costs, both starters and relievers to be able to opt for one of the slots that would take them back to the postseason.