J.P. Hoornstra writes and edits Major League Baseball content. A veteran of 20 years of sports coverage for daily newspapers in California, J.P. covered MLB, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Los ...

While Houston Astros fans were excited to see the team give Cam Smith a shot after beginning the 2025 season on the Opening Day roster, it came with quite a bit of risk. Smith's professional track ...

Just 256 days later, Cam Smith will be making his Major League debut- for the Houston Astros. In December, the Cubs traded Cam Smith, along with pitcher Hayden Wesneski and third baseman Isaac ...

The Astros took that announcement to another level, calling in uber-prospect Cam Smith's family to give him the news that he made the major-league roster. When he realized what was happening ...

No, I’m not saying Smith should be demoted to AAA, but just pointing out that Cam’s hitting slash line probably is less than what the Astros hoped for when he was given an aggressive ...

Billy Smith, a pitcher for the Houston Astros team that won a second-half title in the strike-shortened 1981 season, died April 5. He was 70. Smith's major league career consisted of 11 games ...