The Crawfish Boxes

What happened today in team history? 2005 - Biggio enters the Astros record books With back-to-back bombs from the Houston Astros Craig Biggio and Adam Everett in a 6-1 win over the Milwaukee Brewers, Biggio becomes just the second Astros player in the franchises history to reach 1,000 career RBIs. Jeff Bagwell, who holds the Astros’ RBI record, is the only other player on … [Read more...] about Today in Astros history – April 20

Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images Time will tell if the Astros end up regretting Christian Walker’s contract in a similar way to José Abreu’s ill-fated contract. The parallels are hard to ignore, most notably that both are veteran first basemen well into their thirties when they signed with Houston. The aging curve affects all baseball players, sooner or later, as it did … [Read more...] about Christian Walker Awakens? Astros Down Padres 3-2

Astros shortstop Jeremy Pena (3) reacts with right fielder Cam Smith (11) after scoring a run during the eighth inning against the San Diego Padres at Daikin Park.  | Troy Taormina-Imagn Images Here’s how you feel about the unexpected promotion of Cam Smith I bet the answers to the question, “Do you approve of the promotion of Cam Smith to the majors” would have been … [Read more...] about Results of the Latest Astros Fan Reacts Survey

Jeff Curry-Imagn Images Has it already been a month of full, for-real baseball? According to the calendar, yes. A month full of games, and so many more months of baseball to go. Likely as the calendar heats up, so too will the action, and the subsequent hot takes, ‘case what is 21st century sports without hot takes and instant analysis. Since are 25 years into said … [Read more...] about One month before the plate, or what we’ve learned about the 2025 Astros and MLB

Astros shortstop Jeremy Pena (3) slides safely to score a run as San Diego Padres catcher Martin Maldonado (15) waits for a throw  | Troy Taormina-Imagn Images Hayden Wesneski tries yet again to give the Astros their first winning streak of two and get the team above .500. Here is the Astros’ Batting Average leaderboard. After #1, who would have predicted this: Jose … [Read more...] about Game 20 Thread. April 19, 2025, 6:10 CT. Padres @ Astros