February 1-10, Astros players, alumni, coaches and front office staff are hitting the road to  participate in the 2012 Astros CAREavan. The team’s annual tour features private visits at schools, hospitals and military installations. The Astros also conduct youth baseball and softball clinics and host free public autograph sessions throughout Texas [...]

New Houston Astros owner Jim Crane is looking at his new property from the bottom to the top and making changes along the way.  Like the owners of the Tampa Bay Rays, he is considering everything from the uniforms to the teams name, in an effort to improve the club.  But unlike the Rays, whose [...]

Drayton McLane is no longer the owner of the Houston Astros, and the Astros is one of the few teams that I haven’t written much about while writing about the NL Central.  They aren’t going to be that good, there isn’t much to say.  But for Richard Justice, long-time columnist for the [...]

The new ownership group in Houston is making a splash- unfortunately, it is by firing the team’s President and their GM just one week before the Winter Meetings.  While one can understand an owner wanting to get a fresh start, the timing of this is poor, and can only hurt the Astros for the 2012 [...]

According to at least one report, approval of new owners in Houston was predicated on that new owner, Jim Crane, agreeing to move the Astros to the American League.  The sale made the decision of which team needed to move easier, though the Astros make sense for many reasons, despite their great National League history.
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