The big league team has lost to the Space Cowboys in the last 18 months... https://www.milb.com/news/clutch-hitting-give-space-cowboys-3-1-win-over-astros
Because, despite the results since he has been gone, this team is better with him and eventually baseball will happen and some bounces will not go the Astros' way. They can't just assume they will keep winning with half the roster just up from AAA. And I would rather they step on the throats of The rest of the division, and not risk letting them recover and cut into the division lead.
The Stros are doing pretty good considering their team is winning despite using players from one of the worst rated farm systems in MLB. Maybe somebody needs to reevaluate how they're grading teams farm systems.
