Sports' Gabe Lacques discusses the Astros' dominant finish to the first half of the season and why we can never count them ...

Michael Shapiro is a sports reporter for Chron, covering the Astros, Rockets, Texans and every team in town. Michael is a ...

The Astros are second in the AL behind the Detroit Tigers (57-34). The oddsmakers still favor Detroit. As of Sunday, FanDuel ...

The Astros lag back by one game in the AL West. Their 2024 World Series odds stand at +2000, casting doubt on their chances. Can they turn things around?

The Houston Astros' odds of securing even a postseason berth were rather dim as of late April. Yet as August approaches, is there an American League team with definitively better chances of ...

The Houston Astros are World Series contenders again, but must not trade away their best prospects for a temporary solution.

So we decided to rank the "real" World Series contenders, a list that was longer than it would be in most years given that every team in the sport has had some trials in 2024.

Are the Houston Astros legitimate World Series contenders? One set of statistics says so. Neil Paine of the Athletic went through every World Series champion since 1998 to find what they all have ...

In baseball's most difficult division at present, it might be difficult to see how the Arizona Diamondbacks can be called legitimate World Series contenders right now. But they are in the hunt in ...

The MLB trade deadline is fast approaching as World Series contenders and playoff hopefuls send scouts across the country to ...