70 Facts About Jose Altuve

Jose Carlos Altuve is a Venezuelan professional baseball second baseman for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball.

From 2014 to 2017, Jose Altuve recorded at least 200 hits each season and led the American League in the category.

An eight-time MLB All-Star, Jose Altuve has been voted the starting second baseman for the AL in the All-Star Game five times; his eight selections with the Astros is a club record.

Jose Altuve has won five Silver Slugger Awards and one Rawlings Gold Glove.

From Maracay, Venezuela, Jose Altuve played for the Venezuelan national team in the 2017 World Baseball Classic.

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Jose Altuve holds the record for postseason home runs among second basemen and infielders with 23, which is second all-time in postseason history while being the fastest to do so in games played.

Jose Altuve had 31 games with four hits from 2011 to 2021, the most among any player in that span in MLB, and he has the most 3+ hit games in MLB since 2011 with over 160.

Jose Altuve is a native of Maracay, Venezuela, and grew up there.

The next day, with encouragement from his father, Jose Altuve returned to the camp and produced his birth certificate.

Jose Altuve began 2010 with the Lexington Legends of the Class A South Atlantic League, hitting.

Jose Altuve was named the second baseman on Baseball Americas 2011 Minor League All Star Team as well as the Houston Astros Minor League Player of the Year.

Jose Altuve represented the Astros at the 2011 All-Star Futures Game.

Jose Altuve was named the second baseman on Baseball America 2011 Minor League All-Star team.

On July 27,2011, Jose Altuve tied Russ Johnson for the Astros record for most consecutive games with a hit to start a career with 7.

Jose Altuve became the first Astros player since Adam Everett in 2003 to hit an inside-the-park home run, the first Astros player to get his first major league home run on an inside-the-park home run since pitcher Butch Henry in 1992, and the first Astros player to lead off a game with an inside-the-park home run since Bill Doran in 1987.

Jose Altuve returned to Venezuela to play for Navegantes del Magallanes, based in Valencia, Carabobo, in the Venezuelan Winter League.

Jose Altuve finished 2011 with 898 aggregated plate appearances, including 391 in the minors, 234 with Houston, and 273 with the Magallanes.

Jose Altuve had 82 hits in winter league, bringing his cumulative year-end count to 282.

Jose Altuve was the Astros' representative at the All-Star Game, played at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri.

On June 29,2014, Jose Altuve stole two bases in a game against the Detroit Tigers.

Jose Altuve became the first MLB player since 1933 to have 130 hits and 40 stolen bases before the All-Star Break.

Jose Altuve became the first Astros player to win a batting title.

Jose Altuve won the first Silver Slugger Award of his career, as the top hitter among American League second basemen.

Jose Altuve was bestowed his first iteration of the Luis Aparicio Award, annually given to the Venezuelan judged to produce the best individual performance.

Jose Altuve became the third Astro second baseman to be voted a starter, following Biggio and Jeff Kent.

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On September 11,2015, Jose Altuve recorded his 800th career hit, surpassing Biggio for the fastest Astro player to reach 800 hits.

Jose Altuve reached then-career highs with each of 15 home runs,.

Jose Altuve drove in Jonathan Villar in the seventh inning versus Yankee reliever Dellin Betances for the final run of the contest.

Jose Altuve was awarded his first career Rawlings Gold Glove Award for second base on November 10,2015.

Jose Altuve became an All-Star selection for the fourth time of his career, and started for the second consecutive time.

Jose Altuve was the second-fastest among active players to do so, following Ichiro Suzuki.

Jose Altuve found a power surge with 42 doubles, a career-high 24 home runs, and a career-high 96 RBI.

Jose Altuve placed third in the AL MVP voting, behind winner Mike Trout and Mookie Betts.

Jose Altuve served as the Astros' number three hitter during the 2017 season.

Jose Altuve's average set the Astros record for one calendar month—surpassing Richard Hidalgo's.

Jose Altuve concluded the 2017 campaign by playing in 153 contests with an MLB-leading and career-best.

Jose Altuve led all MLB hitters in batting average against right-handers, at.

Jose Altuve became just the fifth hitter since integration in 1947 to record four straight 200-hit seasons, following Wade Boggs, Kirby Puckett, Suzuki, and Michael Young.

Jose Altuve became the first hitter in Major League history to solely lead his respective league in hits for four years in a row while collecting his third career batting title.

In Game 1 of the ALDS against the Boston Red Sox, Jose Altuve hit three home runs in a single game for the first time of his career while becoming the tenth player to hit three home runs in a single postseason game.

Jose Altuve hit a solo home run in a 4-0, Game 7 win in which the Astros advanced to their second World Series in franchise history, to face the National League pennant-winning Los Angeles Dodgers.

Jose Altuve established a franchise record for total hits in a postseason.

Jose Altuve was the first second baseman and first Astro ever to win it.

Jose Altuve won his fourth consecutive and overall Silver Slugger Award at second base.

On November 16, Jose Altuve was conferred the AL Most Valuable Player Award, only the second Astro to win the award, following Jeff Bagwell in 1994.

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Jose Altuve became the first player since Buster Posey in 2012—and the eighth player overall—to win a batting title, MVP and World Series in the same season.

Jose Altuve became the 18th Major League Baseball player to win the award in its 64-year history, and both the first Houston Astro and first Venezuelan player.

Jose Altuve was selected the 2017 Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year.

Jose Altuve reached 1,000 games played in his career on April 17,2018, versus the Seattle Mariners.

Jose Altuve became the 20th player to appear in 1,000 games for the Astros.

On July 8,2018, Jose Altuve was selected as the starting second baseman for the American League in the All-Star Game, collecting the most votes of any player with 4,849,630 votes.

On October 19,2018, Jose Altuve officially underwent surgery to repair a patella avulsion fracture in his right knee.

Jose Altuve became the 16th player in Astros history to reach 100 home runs.

Jose Altuve would hit another home run off of Felix Hernandez the next night, making it the fifth consecutive game with a home run and sixth home run in that span.

Jose Altuve was the first Astro to hit a home run in five consecutive games since Morgan Ensberg's franchise-record six consecutive games in 2006.

Jose Altuve received the ALCS MVP award for his performance in the series, batting.

Jose Altuve set the record for the most career postseason homers by a second baseman.

On October 7,2020, Jose Altuve became the Venezuelan with the most home runs in postseason history; he is tied with Mickey Mantle and Reggie Jackson for 5th-most home runs in postseason history.

On October 15,2020, Jose Altuve became the Venezuelan with the most RBI in the playoffs.

The next day, he continued with a lead-off home run against Texas; Jose Altuve is the first player in major league history to have hit a walk-off grand slam and then hit a lead-off home run in the following game.

On July 4,2021, after finishing as the runner-up AL second baseman in fan voting, Jose Altuve was named to his seventh All-Star Game, tying the Astros franchise record with Craig Biggio for the most career All-Star game selections.

On September 17,2021, Jose Altuve hit a home run off Madison Bumgarner of the Arizona Diamondbacks at Minute Maid Park to collect his 849th career hit in the stadium, which tied him with Lance Berkman for most hits by an Astro in the venue.

In Game 6 of the 2021 World Series, Jose Altuve made his 73rd postseason start as part of the infield unit of Alex Bregman, Carlos Correa, and Yuli Gurriel, which was more postseason starts than any quartet of teammates in major league history, surpassing the Yankees' Derek Jeter, Tino Martinez, Paul O'Neill, and Bernie Williams, who had started 68 postseason contests together.

In 77 total plate appearances during the 2021 playoffs, Jose Altuve tied the record held by Carlos Beltran for most runs scored in one postseason with 21 runs.

On May 19,2022, Jose Altuve doubled for the 344th time in his career, which broke a tie with Cesar Cedeno for fourth-most in Astros history.

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Jose Altuve appeared in his 1,500th career game on July 3,2022, in a contest versus the Los Angeles Angels, going 3-for-5.

Jose Altuve endured an 0-for16 performance in an ALDS sweep of the Mariners, including a career-worst 0-for-8 in third game which lasted a postseason record-tying 18 innings.

Jose Altuve participated in the 2017 World Baseball Classic, splitting time at second and third base with Rougned Odor.

Jose Altuve has cited fellow Venezuelan designated hitter and catcher Victor Martinez as a mentor.

Jose Altuve is a born-again Christian and has spoken about his faith in videos released by the Astros for faith day events.