Lance McCullers Jr.

Baseball in 2024 looks vastly different than it did two decades ago, and one clear root cause is behind it all. First in a five-part series.

“I know the fans want to see me out there pitching and providing my end of the bargain to the team," McCullers said.

McCullers suffered the injury, which he previously described as a "small forearm strain," in February.

McCullers' setback highlights that the Astros have work to do to reinforce their patchwork starting rotation.

The players voted Jack Flaherty, Lance McCullers Jr., Ian Happ, Austin Slater, Lucas Giolito and Brent Suter to the executive subcommittee

Whether you like it or not, the 2017-22 Astros have moved into a space where you’ll find only the greatest baseball teams of modern times. 

Hold your conspiracy theories. Sometimes, a pitcher just fails to execute. Sometimes, a team just gets beat.

It isn’t every day that a World Series game looks more like batting practice at Cape Canaveral.

McCullers gave up long balls to his final two batters, prompting the Astros manager to say of his night: "It was kind of mind-boggling."

If you play here, expect to win in October. The culture keeps moving forward, even as stars go elsewhere.

McCullers didn't walk a batter for the first time all season and avoided those high-pitch-count innings that sometimes plague him.

The Command & Stuff report returns, under a new name, and with a broader focus.

Who's off to the best starts this season? Jim Bowden highlights the hot hitters and pitchers, and what he expects from them in 2021.

We sought consensus from a group of MLB executives, analysts and scouts on how to rank the best starting pitchers in baseball right now.

A five-year extension will keep McCullers in Houston and give the Astros at least four starters they can pencil into their 2022 rotation.

The conventional wisdom goes that spring training stats don't matter. Except the truth is that some of them do.

Diving into the pitching repertoires of 10 confounding pitchers to determine what's going right (or wrong) – and if it will last.

"They're continuously advocating for this head-hunting season of the Astros ... it's absolutely (bleeping) ridiculous."