It was Hall of Fame announcer Milo Hamilton who gave infielder Phil Garner the nickname “Scrap Iron” while both were with the Pittsburgh Pirates in the late 1970s. Hamilton saw a young third baseman knocking down balls, always with dirt on his uniform, and noticed that nothing seemed to bother

SEATTLE -- Astros shortstop Jeremy Peña is set to undergo further testing Sunday after leaving Saturday’s 8-7 loss to the Mariners at T-Mobile Park with right posterior knee tightness. Peña was removed from the game in the fourth inning as a precaution. He said he felt the back of his

SEATTLE -- Astros rookie right-hander Tatsuya Imai, who struggled to find the strike zone while recording just one out in Friday’s 9-6 loss to the Mariners, traveled back to Houston on Saturday after experiencing right arm fatigue. There was no indication during or after Friday’s game that Imai may have

It’s not often that seats beyond the right-field fence are in “keep your head on a swivel" range but then again, pro ball had yet to see a Xavier Neyens home run before. The Astros’ 2025 first-round pick whistled his first career roundtripper in the fifth inning of Single-A Fayetteville's

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SEATTLE -- If losing their second starting pitcher to a shoulder strain and a stint on the injured list in the span of five days wasn’t enough to push the Astros’ staff into disarray, Tatsuya Imai failing to escape the first inning Friday night at T-Mobile Field may have done

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DENVER -- During the offseason, the Astros’ main focus was on adding pitching depth after injuries ravaged the starting rotation in 2025.

The 2026 season is still only a few weeks old, but plenty of players have stood out in the early going. In many cases, high-level performances are expected -- nobody is surprised that players like Shohei Ohtani, Yordan Alvarez, Corbin Carroll, Cristopher Sánchez and Bryan Woo have excelled to begin

Not every star rookie makes an Opening Day roster. Take last year, for example. The most devastating rookie in baseball, Nick Kurtz, didn't join the Athletics until April 23 and slashed .290/.383/.619 with 36 homers in 117 games. Cade Horton arrived in May for the Cubs and posted a 2.67

DENVER -- Astros ace Hunter Brown will refrain from throwing for a few weeks after being diagnosed with a grade 2 right shoulder strain, the club announced before Tuesday night's 5-1 loss against the Rockies at Coors Field. Brown was placed on the 15-day injured list for the first time

DENVER -- A day after they placed ace right-hander Hunter Brown on the 15-day injured list with a right shoulder strain, an eight-run fifth inning proved too much to overcome for the Astros -- even with an offense that came into the contest averaging 8.5 runs per game over their

What do you think you know about sliders? Let Tatsuya Imai throw that out the window. The Astros' new starter -- who's back on the mound for Friday night's series opener against the Mariners -- broke the Baseball Internet last weekend with his "wrong-way slider." And -- well, you'll just

Astros superstar Yordan Alvarez and Dodgers rising youngster Andy Pages mashed their way to being named Players of the Week on Monday, while Angels outfielder Jo Adell earned the Play of the Week nod for one of his jaw-dropping three home run robberies on Saturday night.

WEST SACRAMENTO -- Astros second baseman Jose Altuve has turned into an on-base machine in the first 10 games of the season, and he’s still doing things on defense that remind us of why he’s likely headed to the Hall of Fame one day.

WEST SACRAMENTO -- Slowly but surely, Astros pitcher Tatsuya Imai is learning what life in the Major Leagues is all about. He learned Saturday that when you pick up your first career victory, which he did by throwing 5 2/3 scoreless innings in an 11-0 win over the A’s, your

WEST SACRAMENTO -- Seven of the Astros’ first nine hitters in Saturday’s game against the A’s reached base, which provided a glimpse of what kind of day it was going to be at Sutter Health Park. The Astros filled the base paths with traffic the entire game and enjoyed one

WEST SACRAMENTO -- A season after they suffered a series of key injuries in their starting rotation, the Astros were dealt their first major health setback of 2026 when ace right-hander Hunter Brown was placed on the 15-day injured list Sunday with a shoulder strain before their 12-10 walk-off loss

WEST SACRAMENTO -- For his struggles to begin the season, Astros starter Cristian Javier appeared to have lived to fight another inning Friday night when he got Tyler Soderstrom to hit a popup high into the air near the home plate circle with two outs in the fourth.

Barely a week into the 2026 season, it’s simply too soon to make any realistic predictions about how the year will play out. At this point, projecting with confidence which teams will win their divisions or which players are in line to win their leagues’ major awards is generally inadvisable.

With the Minor League season opening this week, here's where the Astros' Top 30 Prospects are projected to start:

1. Kevin Alvarez, OF -- Fayetteville (Single-A)
2. Xavier Neyens, SS -- Fayetteville (Single-A)
3. Ethan Frey, OF -- Asheville (High-A)
4. Brice Matthews, 2B -- Houston (MLB)
5. Walker Janek,

HOUSTON -- With the way the Astros have been swinging the bats in the first week of the season, they really didn’t need a rallying cry to break out the lumber again Wednesday afternoon. Red Sox starter Garrett Crochet gave them one, anyway.

With games kicking off on Thursday at both levels of A ball as well as Double-A, and Triple-A entering its second week of play, the 2026 Minor League season is now fully underway. That means we can finally see all of our favorite prospects performing on the field. We know