Why Justin Verlander thinks Astros won't suffer same fate as Mets did last season

The Yankees enter Friday in a tight race with the Orioles in the battle for the top spot in the AL East, while their most recent fiercest rivals, the Astros, are in the basement of the AL West. But Justin Verlander — who saw the Mets' disappointment firsthand last season, when the team with giant expectations and an even bigger payroll fell far short of expectations and traded away its stars like Verlander and Max Scherzer — said he doesn't expect the same fate in Houston. “You can look at the track record with the same group of guys here,'' Verlander said of the Astros' run of success, which includes trips to the ALCS every year since 2017. “The Mets didn't have that track record. They were