Jose Altuve
| Birthdate | 5/6/1990 |
| Death Date | |
| Debut Year | 2011 |
| Year of Induction | |
| Teams | Astros |
| Position | Second Base |
Before the age of 30 Jose Altuve earned a World Series ring, an MVP Award, six All Star rings, five Silver Slugger Awards, and a Gold Glove.
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Jose Altuve has quite a resumé for Cooperstown
Jose Altuve has quite a resumé for Cooperstown
At 5’6″ Jose Altuve is one of baseball’s shortest players. However his Cooperstown resumé stands tall.
Before the age of 30 Altuve stuffed his trophy case. In his 20s he earned three batting crowns, five Silver Slugger Awards, six All Star rings, a Gold Glove, an MVP, and a World Series championship. Each season from 2014-2017 the second baseman tallied 200+ hits, leading the league each time.
In the collection is this lineup card signed by Dusty Baker as manager of the Reds on August 3, 2011. Baker’s Reds dropped the the 5-4 game to his future employers the Houston Astros.
Altuve’s name is penciled in at the second spot in the Houston order. Playing in just his 14th big league game, the second baseman went 2-for-3. He recorded the 16th and 17th hits of his career and his third career multi-hit contest. His first-inning at bat featured the first sacrifice bunt of his career.
In 2022 Altuve and Baker combined to win a championship with the Astros. It was a redemptive year for Altuve, the first since 2018 that he hit .300 and won a Silver Slugger. Mix in his .533 slugging percentage and 160 OPS+ and it’s easy to see how he earned a top-5 showing in MVP balloting.
The 2022 championship was momentous for Baker. After guiding teams to twelve 90-win seasons, Baker helped pushed the ‘Stros to 106 victories. It was his first 100-win season since his initial year managing in 1993 for the 103-win Giants. The World Series title was Baker’s second – he also earned runs in 1981 as a player with the Dodgers – and first as a skipper.
Baker’s signature is found at the bottom.
In 2017 Jose Altuve earned the Hank Aaron Award
In 2017 Jose Altuve earned the Hank Aaron Award
In 1999 Major League Baseball created the Hank Aaron Award to recognize the the top overall offensive performer in each league. According to MLB.com, a panel of Hall of Famers combines with a fan vote to determine the recipient.
Jose Altuve earned the honor in 2017. That season’s batting champ, the second baseman tallied 24 homers, 81 RBI and 112 runs scored and led the league with 204 hits. His slash line was .346/.410/.547.
Shown here is a telegram from the day after Aaron passed the Babe Ruth to become baseball’s career home run leader. Dated April 9, 1974, it reads, “Congratulations on number 715”. Aaron has signed the bottom right of the telegram. Click here to see a list of Hank Aaron Award winners.
NO. He should have been suspended from the game for his cheating. That M.V.P. should have been takin away. Why is what he did any different from what Pete Rose did. He hurt the intergroty of the game. He benefited from a weak commissioner.
I do not consider that Jose Altuve is a cheating baseball player. To play baseball in the big leagues, you must have high conditions to do all what Altuve did on his career. Nobody can deny the effort that Altuve has been doing since he begun playing baseball in his country, practicing baseball all day, studying how to play-defense and batting and keeping himself to be daily player. But the most important part of him is, showed to the world, that a short-man has chance to be great player too.
He played hard to be a Baseball Star without using PED and he played with passion and love for the game to put his team on Post-Season all the time.
Baseball field has been full of players; just not only are associated with PED, but also are involved on other bad areas and some of them are in Cooperstown.
Today, some influencer and savvy baseball journalist are trying to pushing, hard to Hall of Fame, baseball players that were link to PED. This is “Unbelievable Thing”, but it is true.
In fact, Jose Altuve deserve be part of Hall of Fame, if his Organization made a big mistake, it ‘s his organization but no him.
He cheated. His accomplishments are bogus.
Yes, the Astros cheated. Yes Altuve was part of that team. Does that take away his resume to hold a much deserved spot in Cooperstown?…. No it doesn’t. Cooperstown is fraught with the likes of many questionable occupancies within its walls of honor. Some that don’t deserve to be there, some that are only there due to a changing MLB rules system and others who are flat out cheaters. Funny how onlookers bash the Astros, yet applaud and revere the 12 years of Yankees teams that trotted out teams with more juice in their veins than blood… by the way they won 5 World Series titles in the steroid era in that time frame… not a lot of crying for their “cheating” and success due to shorter injury stints and bulked up batters and faster fielders. Who knows, in 20 years the Sign Stealing Scandal may just be looked at the same way… but I doubt it. It seems the MLB needed a fall guy and the Astros were tapped to be the patsy’s for an entire league using the same or even exact tactics as Houston. No matter his successes, his height or his guile, one day Altuve will grace the Halls of Cooperstown and all will be right in the world.
No what aboutism is going to win an argument. The fact is he cheated. I used to respect him highly. I have my standards and you have yours.