The Astros play a day game today in Minny, where it should be a balmy 60 degrees, before a rare Friday off day. According to MLB rules, one can add a 26th player for international games, but that player can’t be a pitcher. That would have been the obvious move, since the team has only 7 BP arms.
Who will Luhnow call up for two games in Mexico against the Angels? In order to tame the fever around Yordan-mania, Hinch said that it would be somebody from the 40 man. No Alvarez! Cue the #Losenow memes. That leaves four players: Garrett Stubbs, Myles Straw, Kyle Tucker, and Derek Fisher.