HOUSTON, TX - MAY 23: Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred, right, presents Bob Watson with The Baseball Assistance Team (B.A.T.) prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award at Minute Maid Park on May 23, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images)
Longtime Houston Astros player and GM Bob Watson has died at age 74.
The Houston Astros family got another gut punch of bad news on Thursday as the team announced that Bob Watson, former first baseman/outfielder and later general manager, died at age 74. Watson had battled kidney disease for several years after serving as a vice president of Major League Baseball until his retirement in 2010.