The Houston Astros' 2025 offseason needed a big splash to ensure the best for the 2026 regular season. One of the biggest moves the front office made was signing international free agent right-handed pitcher Tatsuya Imai to a three-year deal worth $54 million.
The Astros have two teams in the Dominican Summer League and had some standout performances from the international prospects. Let’s take a look. The DSL Astros Orange put together a strong 2026 season improving on their 32-23 record in 2025 to a 33-20 record in 2026.
Yainer Diaz closed his fifth season with the Houston Astros with some of the best baseball of his career and turned a season with a weak start into a successful campaign for the catcher.
Do you remember Dustin Harris? Yes, he is the same outfielder who is with the San Diego Padres and after being discarded by three teams has become in little more than a month a simplified reincarnation of Luis Arraez.
How many of the active MLB players to reach 100 hits in at least eight different seasons can you name in five minutes?
Tatsuya Imai’s first season with the Houston Astros is going to be remembered, above all, for what we could not see. Imai displayed his undeniable potential, but did not achieve enough consistency and that led him to lose his spot as a starter in the second half of the season.
The 2026 season has been headlined by young players emerging, but some wily veterans have also had their day. As we head toward the end of the regular season, these 30 players stand out as the biggest surprises on their teams.
Now that the Houston Astros have been eliminated from the 2026 playoffs, the front office, which doesn't have a general manager at the moment, has to make some contract decisions on their players for the 2027 season.
The Astros were swiftly knocked out of the postseason via a two-game sweep by the upstart White Sox. That’s the third straight year under manager Joe Espada in which Houston failed to make a deep postseason run, having been swept in the Wild Card Series in 2024 and 2026 and missing the playoffs entirely in 2025.
The Houston Astros should not let the swing that ended their season dictate their free-agent decision. Bryan Abreu surrendered the three-run homer to Chase Meidroth that crushed the Astros’ comeback hopes and helped the Chicago White Sox clinch their AL Wild Card Series sweep.
Dynasties rarely announce when they are over. There is usually no clean ending, no obvious moment when a team goes from feared to vulnerable. The names are still familiar.
If you follow the team often, the problem has not been far from your perception: the Houston Astros have used 15 different left fielders over the last two seasons.
The Houston Astros made unwanted MLB history during their American League Wild Card Series against the Chicago White Sox. After losing both games, Houston became the first team in the postseason to finish a multi-game series without leading at the end of a single inning.
The 2026 season hasn't gone as planned for many MLB players. These 30 players stand out as the biggest disappointments for their respective teams.
The Chicago White Sox took early leads and relied on their bullpen to complete a two-game sweep of the Houston Astros in the American League Wild Card series.
The Houston Astros’ season ended Wednesday night with a 7-3 loss to the Chicago White Sox in Game 2 of the American League Wild Card Series, completing a sweep and sending the club home after the shortest possible postseason stay.
Chase Meidroth hit a backbreaking three-run home run in the sixth inning to help the Chicago White Sox make a big early lead stand up in a 7-3 victory over the Houston Astros on Wednesday that capped a two-game sweep of their American League wild-card series.
It took just two games for the Chicago White Sox to sweep the Houston Astros out of the American League Wild Card round and show that the AL West winners were never real postseason contenders.
The Astros announced Wednesday that outfielder Daulton Varsho underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left wrist. He’d been plagued by a pair of cysts in that wrist, which had become increasingly uncomfortable as the final stretch of the season inched toward its conclusion.
Game 2 between the Chicago White Sox and Houston Astros should unfold significantly differently than Game 1.
Rookie Hagen Smith pitched three innings, allowing no runs on two hits with one strikeout in a 6-3 Chicago White Sox win at the Houston Astros in the first game of the wild-card series on Tuesday.
Game 1 of the White Sox's American League wild-card series at the Houston Astros is on Tuesday.
The Chicago White Sox and Houston Astros are both expected to use bullpen games in Game 1 of their American League Wild Card Series on Tuesday.
The two teams met up seven times in the regular season, with Houston winning five of the seven games.
The Seattle Mariners are officially looking for a new manager. Here are four potential candidates.
The Chicago White Sox's 9-6 loss to the Colorado Rockies and the 11-5 Cleveland Guardians win over the Kansas City Royals ended the American League Central race.
Despite needing to leave to win a championship, Justin Verlander's eventual plaque inside the Baseball Hall of Fame will likely show him wearing the Detroit Tigers' logo on his cap.
Houston Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez deserves to win the 2026 AL MVP.
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