The Crawfish Boxes

Reinhold Matay-Imagn Images In NFL terms, the season is in the first quarter of week 2 and the Astros have started…well the season has certainly started. The pitching has been unsustainably good and the offense has been unsustainably bad. Both are due for some reversion to the mean, but who knows what that will look like. It will take until mid-June to get a feel for … [Read more...] about Astros thoughts: LMJ, Smith, Altuve

Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images We’re only twelve games into the Astros’ season, so it's still too early to draw hard conclusions about this roster. Not even two weeks’ worth of games. I mean, Yordan Alvarez and Christian Walker will eventually hit better than they have at the start of the campaign. The lineup as a whole will start hitting again. Whether this will … [Read more...] about Good Pitching, Bad Hitting: The 2025 Astros So Far

Jake Meyers | Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images Welcome to the Thursday Boil. With 150 games left to play, the Houston Astros are 3 1⁄2 games behind the division leading Texas Rangers. So it’s not really time to panic yet. Everyone relax. Unfortunately, this is Houston’s MO du jour, and it’s not going to change tomorrow either. Houston Astros News Astros Dump … [Read more...] about Astros Crawfish Boil: April 10, 2025

Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images See how the Astros prospects performed last night. Another day of baseball in the books! See the results below. Check out the previous day’s recap here. AAA: Sugar Land Space Cowboys (5-6) won 3-2 (BOX SCORE) Sugar Land got on the board in the first inning scoring 2 runs on a Whitcomb bases loaded walk and a Sacco … [Read more...] about Astros Prospect Report: April 9th

What happened today in team history? 1962 - First opening day in Houston For the first time, Major League Baseball is played in Houston as the Cold .45s take on the Chicago Cubs in their first game as a franchise, one that they went on to win 11-2. Bobby Shantz was the starting pitcher for the Colt .45s, getting Houston baseball officially started with a strikeout of Lou … [Read more...] about Today in Astros history – April 10