There are trade candidates out there for them, and while the first base market is filled ... The one issue to remember in a potential trade for the Astros is that their farm system is perhaps ...

Contreras would probably take some time to warm up to the first base position ... to injury issues, but he was still effective with an .848 OPS when he was on the field. If the Astros want to ...

George Springer is in Toronto now, Alex Bregman in Boston and Carlos Correa in Minnesota. Justin Verlander pitches for San ...

The Astros entered Saturday extracting ... he could play there in a ploy to mitigate the elbow issue. Bregman last manned first base in high school summer ball. Mauricio Dubón, mired in his ...

In fairness to Houston Astros first baseman Christian Walker ... 154 with two extra-base hits (a double and a home run) and two RBI across 75 plate appearances. That’s not exactly what the ...

Yes, they would miss Altuve, but this is a team of mashers from Yordan Alvarez, Kyle Tucker, Alex Bregman, Jeremy Pena and that new guy at first ... extra base hits of some kind. The Astros ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Astros starter Ronel Blanco received a ... on Tuesday after umpires found a foreign substance that first base umpire Erich Bacchus said was "the stickiest stuff I've felt on ...