The latest news on the Houston Astros!
Josh Hader will be activated today.
Hader will also go directly to the closer role:
Everyone on the Astros knows how good Yordan Alvarez is. From Bob Nightengale’s latest notebook:
Can you imagine how good the Dodgers would be if they didn’t trade an 18-year-old prospect by the name of Yordan Alvarez to the Houston Astros for reliever Josh Fields in 2016?
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Alvarez, scouts and baseball executives will tell you, may be the greatest all-around hitter they’ve seen since Barry Bonds, with his teammates now even calling him Barry. He went into Saturday slashing .301/.415/.641 with a league-leading 1.056 OPS, with 20 homers and 39 RBIs.
“There is a level of intelligence and calm through his at-bats that I have never, ever seen in my career,” Astros manager Joe Espada told reporters.
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Here what Astros prospects have been HOT:
IF Pascanel Ferreras has been promoted from Double-A to Triple-A:
The Astros also signed another international free agent:
I was going to include this piece as a look into what a prominent MLB.com writer thinks about the Astros at the deadline, but the one team he FORGOT TO MENTION was the Houston Astros. Also, he may have failed to properly count…
For Astros fans, is this the definition of FAFO?
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