This profile is part of our 2018 Power Issue. For more of 2018’s most powerful Texans, click here. While the Houston Astros didn’t ascend all the way to baseball’s apex this year, 2018 still offered plenty of great memories, capped by a second consecutive American League West title and an appearance in the AL Championship Series to go along with a franchise-record 103 regular season wins. Those who kvetch that these Astros failed to repeat as world champions would do well to wind back the clock seven and a half years and remember how things looked before businessman Jim Crane bought the team. It’s almost impossible to concoct even a theoretical professional sports franchise that was in worse shape than the 2011 Astros. With their…The post The Power Issue: Jim Crane Is Assembling a World Championship Team That’s Built to Last appeared first on Texas Monthly.