Houston Astros Players

Order by the year each player joined the Houston Astros. You place all 52 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

Houston Astros Players
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release years and dates
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How the Houston Astros roster timeline works

You're putting Houston Astros players in order of the year each joined the franchise. One player is on the timeline when you start, his year in view. Every card you're dealt shows a name and a position such as center fielder or starting pitcher, and you slot it into a gap. Right placements reveal the year. Wrong placements still land in the true spot and cost one of three lives.

Houston joined as an expansion team under a different nickname before becoming the Astros, and the deck starts with those first rosters. The cards run through the Astrodome years, the move to a new ballpark, the switch from the National League to the American League and the recent contenders. The middle is the busiest part. Homegrown stars who arrived young are the trickiest to place.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 52 cards you might be dealt, with 24 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Bob Aspromonte third baseman
  • Jim Wynn center fielder
  • Larry Dierker starting pitcher
  • Don Wilson starting pitcher
  • Fred Gladding relief pitcher
  • Ken Forsch relief pitcher
  • Joe Niekro starting pitcher
  • Enos Cabell third baseman
  • Joe Sambito relief pitcher
  • Nolan Ryan starting pitcher
  • Bob Knepper starting pitcher
  • Frank DiPino relief pitcher
  • Mike Scott starting pitcher
  • Billy Hatcher left fielder
  • Gerald Young center fielder
  • Craig Biggio second baseman
  • Darryl Kile starting pitcher
  • Doug Jones relief pitcher
  • Billy Wagner relief pitcher
  • Brad Ausmus catcher
  • Roy Oswalt starting pitcher
  • Wandy Rodriguez starting pitcher
  • Carlos Lee left fielder
  • Michael Bourn center fielder
  • Dallas Keuchel starting pitcher
  • Luke Gregerson relief pitcher
  • Ken Giles relief pitcher
  • Roberto Osuna relief pitcher

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