Houston Astros

Every MLB player the encyclopedia attributes to the Houston Astrosfrom profile season records, grouped by position, first season to last. Coverage follows the encyclopedia’s per-era source depth.

Every position room Houston Astros has passed down, steadiest first. The DH room is their most stable — 6 holders across 55 years, a new one every 9.2 on average.

1. DH6 holders · 5 handoffs · 1972–2026 · one every 9.2y
   Cliff Johnson1972–1977→Luke Scott2005–2007→George Springer2014–2020→Evan Gattis2015–2018→Michael Brantley2019–2023→Yordan Alvarez2019–2026
2. 2B9 holders · 8 handoffs · 1962–2026 · one every 7.2y
   Bob Aspromonte1962–1968→Joe Morgan1963–1980→Tommy Helms1972–1975→Phil Garner1981–1987→Bill Doran1982–1990→Craig Biggio1988–2007→Mark Loretta2002–2008→Jeff Kent2003–2004→Jose Altuve2011–2026
3. 1B8 holders · 7 handoffs · 1966–2022 · one every 7.1y
   Bob Watson1966–1979→Lee May1972–1974→Glenn Davis1984–1990→Jeff Bagwell1991–2005→Daryle Ward1998–2002→Lance Berkman1999–2010→Chris Carter2013–2015→Yuli Gurriel2016–2022
4. C10 holders · 9 handoffs · 1963–2026 · one every 6.4y
   John Bateman1963–1968→Johnny Edwards1969–1974→Alan Ashby1979–1989→Mark Bailey1984–1988→Scott Servais1991–2001→Tony Eusebio1991–2001→Brad Ausmus1997–2008→Jason Castro2010–2022→Martín Maldonado2018–2023→Yainer Diaz2022–2026
5. 3B14 holders · 13 handoffs · 1967–2024 · one every 4.1y
   Doug Rader1967–1975→Enos Cabell1975–1985→Art Howe1976–1982→Denny Walling1977–1992→Ray Knight1982–1984→Ken Caminiti1987–2000→Sean Berry1996–1998→Morgan Ensberg2000–2007→Geoff Blum2002–2010→Mike Lamb2004–2007→Chris Johnson2009–2012→Matt Dominguez2012–2014→Luis Valbuena2015–2016→Alex Bregman2016–2024
6. SS20 holders · 19 handoffs · 1962–2026 · one every 3.3y
   Bob Lillis1962–1967→Sonny Jackson1963–1967→Denis Menke1968–1974→Roger Metzger1971–1978→Craig Reynolds1979–1989→Dickie Thon1981–1987→Rafael Ramirez1988–1992→Andujar Cedeno1990–1996→Ricky Gutierrez1995–1999→Bill Spiers1996–2001→Julio Lugo2000–2003→Jose Vizcaino2001–2005→Adam Everett2001–2007→Miguel Tejada2008–2009→Jed Lowrie2012–2015→Marwin Gonzalez2012–2021→Carlos Correa2015–2026→Aledmys Díaz2019–2024→Mauricio Dubón2022–2025→Jeremy Peña2022–2026

+2 more rooms with a shorter average hold.

Room tenures, not starting jobs — the corpus has no per-season depth chart, so holders can overlap (a successor often arrives before his predecessor leaves) and the measure is how often the room changed hands. A holder is a player who produced real value for this club during his years here, which is what separates holding the room from being on the roster. Detected from per-season VAL (1962–2026 here; league coverage is complete from 1999) — rooms the corpus cannot value are not shown.