The Crawfish Boxes

Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images Where will the Astros end up in the AL West standings? Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Houston Astros fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. Please take our survey https://sportsbook.fanduel.com/ … [Read more...] about Astros Reacts Survey

Colton Gordon | Sam Navarro-Imagn Images Welcome to Thursday’s Boil. Here’s your Crawfish Boil...A Love Story. Engineered specifically for Houston Astros fans, here is your breakfast link dump. Houston Astros News Astros’ 2025: Big questions going into spring training (Part 2) (Chipalatta) Astros insider raises fascinating benefit robo-umps could have for Houston’s … [Read more...] about Astros Crawfish Boil: February 20, 2025

Getty Images What happened today in team history? 1964 - Colts head to Florida for Spring Training After years of Spring Training being held in Arizona, the Colt .45s move and start hosting their Spring Training in Cocoa, Florida. With this move came problems though. Hailed to be “state-of-the-art,” the facilities have problems including draining, snakes and poor … [Read more...] about Today in Astros history – February 20

Astros relief pitcher Kaleb Ort delivers a pitch against the Red Sox in August 2024. | Troy Taormina-Imagn Images Is the Astros bullpen a weakness or a strength? Spring training is about finding the bullpen pieces One of the question marks as we enter spring training is “how good is the bullpen?” The early opinion of most of the Fangraph prognosticators is that the … [Read more...] about How will the Astros bullpen shake out?

Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images New second basemen could push Altuve into left I think everyone in the Astros orbit knew they weren’t done. They also knew that there weren’t any major moves that were going to happen either. The front office is in the tinkering phase of the offseason where a tiny move here and a tiny move there could add a win or two to the bottom line. … [Read more...] about Astros Thought Experiment Continued