Dallas Keuchel isn't worried about the Houston Astros suffering from a post-World Series hangover.

"We're not the Cubs," Keuchel told The Washington Post when asked about the Chicago Cubs' returning almost the same team from their 2016 championship and winning 11 fewer games. "I firmly believe we have better players."

The Cubs won the NL Central, but lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS. The Astros defeated the Dodgers in the World Series.

"I think that demand on your time is more of the quote-unquote hangover than anything else. It's just the time you didn't get to devote to preparing for the season," Lance McCullers said. "I did all the media stuff, all the requests -- sometimes two, three times a day -- which plays into it as well. That's not an offseason. That's a media tour."