Brown, 55, is the second Black GM in Astros history, and he joins Dusty Baker in becoming only the second Black general manager-manager duo in baseball history, following GM Ken Williams and manager Jerry Manuel with the White Sox.
He’s the first pitcher in Astros history to have the club win his nine starts with the team and has one regular-season outing remaining. “Obviously, I didn’t know where I was going to get traded, but I was a little surprised to learn it was Houston,” Kikuchi said. “I have to...
Today in Astros history - January What happened today in team history? 1962 - Caravan gets started With the help of Manager Harry Craft and General Manager Paul Richards, the Astros set off on their first Winter caravan trip, during which they went around to cities in T...
Baker took plenty of criticism over his managerial career — especially for his aggressive handling of young Cubs pitchers Mark Prior and Kerry Wood, who both burned out as starters due to injury. But Baker persisted and succeeded — he's the only manager in major league history to take five...
Houston — In joining the World Series champion Houston Astros, new general manager Dana Brown's goal is to keep the team at the top of the league.
046 regular-season games. He was the 12th manager in major league history to reach 2,000 wins and the first Black man to accomplish the feat.Ten of the other 11 managers who have accumulated at least 2,000 wins are in the Hall of Fame. Bruce Bochy (2,093), who is still managing ...
García's home run streak is tied for fourth-longest in postseason history. It was only the second time the road team won every game in a best-of-seven postseason series. The Astros were also on the wrong end of the other one, dropping four home games in a loss to Washington in the...
back from Tampa, Florida, where their home series against the Rangers had been relocated due to Hurricane Harvey, the Astros sit together for the final 30 minutes of the flight, staring down at the colossal swath of destruction left behind by one of the worst storms in U.S. his...
Howie Kendrick and Anthony Rendon homered in the seventh inning as the Washington Nationals overcame a two-run deficit, rocking the Houston Astros 6-2 in Game 7 of the World Series to win the first title in franchise history.
Jim Crane isn’t a believer in signing free agents to lengthy deals, and any deal to keep Tucker after next season wasn’t going to happen in Houston. Tucker could command $300 million or more in free agency, which would be twice as much as any player has gotten in Astros history. ...