MINNEAPOLIS – The Astros placed right-hander Lance McCullers Jr. on the 15-day IL Tuesday due to right shoulder inflammation.

McCullers was scratched from his scheduled start against the Twins on Tuesday night. RHP Jason Alexander, who was recalled from Triple-A Sugar Land earlier in the week, got the start in McCullers’

MINNEAPOLIS -- It wasn’t quite the outcome that Tatsuya Imai and the Astros were hoping for. But in the Astros’ rain-delayed 6-3 loss to the Twins on Monday, Imai demonstrated improvement in a couple of key areas that have tripped him up early in his Astros career.

Imai pitched

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HOUSTON -- Just as shortstop Jeremy Peña returned from the injured list on Monday, the Astros are losing second baseman Jose Altuve to a Grade 2 left oblique strain, manager Joe Espada said following Sunday’s 8-0 loss to the Rangers at Daikin Park.

This far into the 2026 MLB season, we’ve seen all sorts of standout performances from a variety of players, from established stars to inexperienced prospects to surprise performers.

But who will be the best at their positions when the season comes to a close?

In the latest vote predicting the <a href="https://www.mlb.com/awards/all-mlb"

HOUSTON -- It may have been Rivalry Weekend in MLB, but that didn’t stop noted nice guy Brandon Nimmo from making friends with some Astros fans during the Silver Boot Series this weekend.

This page will be updated throughout the season with all the latest Astros injury news and transactions.

HOUSTON -- There were certainly bigger offseason acquisitions for the Astros, whose winter centered around adding pitching depth. No signing made more headlines than Japanese star Tatsuya Imai, who so far has fallen flat, and the three-team trade for Mike Burrows was seen as a solid move to get a

HOUSTON -- Spencer Arrighetti started the season in Triple-A Sugar Land, and he admits that, “it felt like a kick in the face in the moment, but I never got discouraged.”

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HOUSTON -- Mike Burrows has had an up-and-down first season with the Astros. That trend continued on Thursday.

Following arguably his best start in his Major League career in his last outing against the Reds, Burrows was hit hard in an 8-3 loss to the Mariners at

HOUSTON -- The injuries that have devastated the Astros’ roster in the first quarter of the season have provided opportunities for others. Among those are rookies Braden Shewmake, Brice Matthews and Zach Cole, who have been tasked with trying to turn over the bottom of Houston’s lineup for mainstays Jose

Spoiler alert: Aaron Judge is the No. 1 hitter in baseball, according to votes cast by a group of MLB.com experts.

HOUSTON -- Astros shortstop Jeremy Peña did not play his scheduled Minor League rehab game Wednesday afternoon for Double-A Corpus Christi while nursing a sore neck, which he sustained in a nasty collision Tuesday night with the Hooks.

Peña, on the injured list for the last month with a hamstring strain,

Pirates phenom Konnor Griffin graduated from prospect status by exceeding 130 Major League at-bats Wednesday, and if we’re going to get a new No. 1 overall prospect, we might as well make some tweaks to the full Top 100 Prospects list.

Every so often during the baseball season, we

HOUSTON -- Astros starter Tatsuya Imai appeared to have struck out Seattle’s Randy Arozarena on a fastball at the top corner of the zone to start the fourth inning Tuesday night. The called third strike was challenged by Arozarena and overturned to a ball via ABS, having missed the strike

HOUSTON -- The Astros reached the one-quarter mark of their schedule while they were in Cincinnati over the weekend, returning home with a 16-25 record. The good news for the Astros is there were 120 games remaining after Monday’s 3-1 loss to the Mariners at Daikin Park, so

A couple of weeks ago, we took a look at the hottest hitting prospect in each organization. Now it’s time to check in on the pitchers.

While many of the game’s top young arms are still building up and expanding their pitch counts and innings, there have been more

HOUSTON -- Astros third baseman Carlos Correa underwent surgery Monday morning to repair the peroneus brevis tendon in his left ankle. Correa, who will miss the rest of the season, suffered the injury while swinging a bat in the batting cage last Tuesday at Daikin Park.

Astros manager Joe

René Cárdenas, a broadcasting pioneer and Houston Astros Hall of Famer who -- in 1958 -- became the first full-time Spanish-language announcer in Major League Baseball history, died Sunday at his home in Houston. He was 96.

Cárdenas helped blaze a path for Spanish-language broadcasters in MLB when he

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CINCINNATI – Kai-Wei Teng took the ball on Sunday at Great American Ball Park to make his second start of the season. His performance in the Astros' 5-0 loss to the Reds didn’t do anything to dissuade manager Joe Espada from his plan to potentially add the Taiwanese