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Astros Crawfish Boil: March 17th, 2020

Start your morning with some of the best Astros links around

By CKuno Mar 17, 2020, 8:25am CDT

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Astros News

Houston athletes are doing their part during the Coronavirus shutdown (Houston Sportsmap)
Here are four takeaways from an extremely abbreviated Spring Training (Astros.com)
And here are the key storylines for the Astros’ 2020 season whenever it finally gets underway (The Athletic, $$$)
Here is a fantasy preview of the Astros for your leagues whenever those finally get going as well (Draftkings)
Mike Acosta debuted the new look for the right field seats at Minute Maid Park (Twitter)

Around the League

More bad news as MLB has pushed back Opening Day until (at least) mid-May (AP News)
This could be devastating for hourly ballpark employees, and there’s not plan in place at the moment to help them (The Athletic, $$$)
MLB and the Player’s Association have pledged $1 million to help feed hungry families while the country rides this out (MLB.com)
Here are a few ways a shortened season could alter MLB in 2020 (Sports Illustrated)
How many games can MLB realistically expect to play this season? (FanGraphs)
In this time of uncertainty the league should consider opening up its vault of vintage baseball clips for the fans (Sporting News)
The Kentucky Derby has been postponed until September (Houston Chronicle)