It's obvious that $100 million just doesn't buy what it used to. That's the approximate gap in respective payrolls for the 2013 season between the Los Angeles Angels and the Houston Astros, with the 'Stros bringing up the rear in the major leagues.
And yet, it wasn't the Astros calling a...
A day after a group of umpires botched a home-run ruling, another group of umpires let the Houston Astros make an obviously illegal pitching change. The opposing Los Angeles Angels played the rest of the game under protest, which doesn't really matter now because the Angels won the game 6-5...
The Juice returns for season No. 6! It's almost eligible for free-agency! Stop by daily for news from the action, along with great photos, stats, video highlights and more.
This was a good example of how scary the Detroit Tigers lineup can be — even when opposing pitchers avoid Miguel...
The season of impressive fan catches continues.
In the 13th inning of Thursday's Detroit Tigers-Houston Astros game, this fan was alert, even as the game dragged toward its fifth hour. By that time, he had a child hugged up in arms, thus raising the degree of difficulty on his impressive...
The Juice returns for season No. 6! It's almost eligible for free-agency! Stop by daily for news from the action, along with great photos, stats, video highlights and more.
It seems we've been here before with the Los Angeles Angels. Fairly recently, too, as in just last season. You know...
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There’s little doubt Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt is an athletic freak of nature. The 6-foot-5, 295-pound Watt does things on a football field that few people his size or at his position can do now, or have been able to do in the past.
Last...
At some point we’ve all traveled part way to our destination before realizing we forgot something — like baseball tickets, perhaps — and had to turn around to retrieve them. That’s almost a given.
But I don’t know how many people can say they’ve started a cross country trek to work, only to...
Kids today don't understand, but the Houston Astros used to be a sound franchise. They used to have great players. They used to win games. They even went to the World Series once. Any more, the Astros are bottom-dwellers, hopefully heading toward an upturn led by Jeff Luhnow as they saunter over...
With new ownership in place and Jeff Luhnow taking over the general manager duties last winter, Brad Mills' days as manager of the Houston Astros have seemingly been numbered barring an unforeseen change in circumstances or a minor on field miracle. Neither have occurred this season for the...
Matt Cain has such good stuff that it seemed like it was only a matter of time until he put his first no-hitter under his belt. But the big righty did all our expectations one better on a memorable and cool *Wednesday night at AT&T Park, throwing a perfect game against the Houston Astros in a...
...ballplayers? What in the world is up with the Houston Astros farm system? Just look at the players they have had in recent years. Richard Hidalgo --- at one point in time, (2000 to be exact) he was projected to be a major league superstar as he had a 318 batting average with 44 home runs...
if the astros find themselves 10 games under .500 at the all star break, do you think it is time to have a fire sale? we still have oswalt for 4 years(2012 is the year), berkman for 3 years(2011 is the option year), lee's contract runs through 2012. oswalt has a no trade clause, but has been...