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)

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.

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The White Sox have the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 Draft, which comes with an assigned value of $11,350,600, the largest since the bonus-pool era began in 2012. Yet it's the Pirates who possess the largest overall pool at $19,130,700, another record.

MLB informed the teams of the updated

HOUSTON -- Who cares that the season is less than a week old? The Astros have turned in must-see baseball with the way they’re bashing the baseball all over Daikin Park en route to scoring at least eight runs in four games in a row for the first time since

HOUSTON -- A strikeout and a walk in one plate appearance is something that’s not supposed to happen in baseball. Fortunately for Astros right fielder Cam Smith, only the walk counted.

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HOUSTON -- Lance McCullers Jr. let out a cathartic scream and pumped his arms following his final pitch Monday night. It was the kind of raw emotion we hadn’t seen from the Astros veteran right-hander in quite some time, but it was a perfect reaction for the moment and the

Which Minor League ballparks are worth visiting? The answer, of course, is "all of them." Minor League Baseball's 120 teams operate out of a wide variety of locales, within a wide variety of locations, and all of them offer their own unique charms. And every year, there are different reasons

HOUSTON -- Could a player the Astros tried to trade in the offseason and throughout the spring wind up being their most valuable piece in 2026?

Isaac Paredes -- who was regarded as the odd man out in the Astros’ clogged infield picture with Carlos Correa at third base, Jeremy Peña

HOUSTON -- Chalk it up to some nerves and perhaps even not yet being able to find the right sleeping and eating patterns in his new surroundings.

HOUSTON -- The reality of an 0-3 start -- and the overreactions that come with it -- were staring the Astros in the face for the first half of Saturday’s game against the Angels, who never trailed Houston in the first two games of the series and had a comfortable

HOUSTON -- Brice Matthews, ranked by MLB Pipeline as the Astros’ No. 4 prospect, parlayed a strong performance in the Grapefruit League into a spot on Houston's Opening Day roster and made his first career start in the outfield in Friday’s 6-2 loss to the

HOUSTON -- The pitching depth the Astros added in the offseason not only allowed them to stash some experienced arms in Triple-A who have experience starting in the Major Leagues, including Spencer Arrighetti, Colton Gordon and Jason Alexander, but it also gave them the luxury of having three relief pitchers

The Major Leaguers get to have their Opening Day fun on Wednesday and Thursday. Come Friday, it’ll be Triple-A ballplayers’ turn.

The International and Pacific Coast League regular seasons both begin on March 27 this year, meaning MLB hopefuls from coast to coast will take their first throws and hacks shortly

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HOUSTON -- Jeremy Peña launched a two-run homer in his return to the lineup on Tuesday night in the Astros’ final exhibition game against their Triple-A affiliate, the Sugar Land Space Cowboys, but his availability for Opening Day remained uncertain.

Peña went 1-for-4 with the 394-foot home run to left coming

The Astros have optioned right-hander Spencer Arrighetti to Triple-A Sugar Land, the club announced on Monday.

Arrighetti, 26, was limited to seven starts last season due to a fractured right thumb and right elbow inflammation. He posted a 5.35 ERA over 35 1/3 innings for Houston. This

The games may not have counted. But the lessons sure did.

For teams around the Majors, the past six weeks under the sun in Florida and Arizona delivered some important revelations that could impact them well beyond the start of the regular season.

With the help of our beat reporters, here is

Injuries happen every spring. It’s part of the game -- as players ramp up, they get hurt, and teams inevitably head into Opening Day with some key players on the shelf.

But every injury also presents an opportunity.

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Carlos Correa was struggling for his life in the waters of a Minnesota lake last summer. His hamstrings and quads were cramping, his stamina getting weaker. He was halfway between the shore and the boat, and with his oldest son clinging to his neck, he

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The day started ugly enough for the Astros prospects participating in the annual Spring Breakout game Thursday afternoon against the Marlins. They made four errors in the first three innings -- including two by shortstop Xavier Neyens -- hit into a bases-loaded double