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The Houston Astros won’t start the second half with either of their aces for Friday’s second-half opener against the Seattle Mariners.

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A year ago at the All-Star break, B/R correctly predicted Tarik Skubal would win the AL Cy Young Award and Chris Sale would take home the NL Cy Young Award. That might not seem like an earth-shattering projection,

Chris Carter hit 41 home runs in 2016, and two years later was out of the majors. But his desire to keep mashing remained.

The Houston Astros will need to make a few roster cuts if they add some talent ahead of the trade deadline. Who's on the chopping block?

The Houston Astros already had one of the weaker farm systems in the league and that did not change following the 2025 MLB draft. Bleacher Report's Joel Reuter

Sometimes at this point, there will be an obvious No. 1 team. Most others, there isn't one. We're fortune right now to have three teams with a legitimate claim as the "best team in baseball" in the Los Angeles Dodgers,

Luhnow hasn't held a role in MLB since being fired by Astros owner Jim Crane in 2020 following the 2017 sign-stealing scandal.

The legacies of former Tri-City ValleyCats still live on across Major League Baseball. The ValleyCats, once a former Class A Short Season affiliate of the Houston Astros up until

The Astros sweep the Dodgers in Los Angeles, the Pirates turn good history into bad, the Guardians blew it in the ninth and more from the weekend's MLB action.

The Houston Astros have exceeded even the most optimistic of expectations coming into the 2025 MLB season. With the second half of the year on the horizon, the