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Astros Crawfish Boil: June 11th, 2020

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By CKuno Jun 11, 2020, 10:45am CDT

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Astros News

James Click sat down with Mark Berman to talk draft strategy and the challenges of being a team with such a small pool of money (Twitter - Mark Berman)
Meanwhile, Kevin Esch talked with Jose Cruz about his magical 1980 NLCS (Twitter - AT&T Sportsnet SW)
Cruz’s grandson, Trei Cruz, is hoping to make it a generational trifecta for his family as he awaits selection in this year’s draft (ABC 13)
Speaking of the draft, here’s the story of the time that the City of Houston had two number 1 draft picks on the same day (KHOU 11)
With Angel Hernandez back in the news, let’s remember that time that AJ Hinch dunked on him during a Spring Training game (Houston Sportsmap)
Nolan Ryan would like it if Texans would stop being knuckleheads about COVID-19 (Houston Chronicle)

Around the League

Here is a full rundown of all the players selected in the first round of the draft yesterday (Sports Illustrated)
As expected, Spencer Torkelson went first overall to the Detroit Tigers (MLB Trade Rumors)
These are the best players still available as Day 2 begins (MLB.com)
Manfred has put himself on the record that baseball will be played in 2020 (MLB Trade Rumors)
And this is the proposal he should make if he wants to see that through (The Athletic, $$$)
Here are the gains and losses of each individual team if a season is player without fans (Fangraphs)
Coca-Cola has announced that they will end their sponsorship deal with MLB after 3 seasons (AP News)