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Astros Crawfish Boil: May 14th, 2020

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By CKuno May 14, 2020, 9:45am CDT

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Astros News

In her latest Instagram interview for AT&T Sports Southwest, Julia Morales sat down with Abraham Toro (Instagram - AT&T Sports Southwest)
These five prospects that could see their debut in 2020 if baseball is played (Texas Sports Southwest, $$$)
Here is the story of how the Astros let Ramon Laureano get away, and to a division rival no less (MLB Trade Rumors)
Alex Bregman managed to raise over $57,000 for charity in 24 hours just by playing video games (Twitter - Mark Berman)

Around the League

Will MLB even be able to reach a deal with its players? (538 Sports)
They better hurry as teams are expected to start reducing payroll beginning in June (MLB Trade Rumors)
Following Arizona’s lead, Governor Ron DeSantis has offered up Florida as a place to play games this summer (ESPN)
One result from this season could be inactive players being the best paid players (The Athletic, $$$)
An 82-game mini-season would turn a lot of baseball notions on their head (Sports Radio 610)
But some players don’t consider it worthwhile enough to risk their health for a truncated season (Sporting News)
Here are the 25 best undrafted MLB Free Agents of all time (Baseball America, $$$)
Definitely not among them is superagent Scott Boras, who was bad at baseball before he was good at... uh... agenting (Sports Illustrated)