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Astros News
- The Astros drafted some legacy yesterday, picking up Bully Wagner’s son Will with the 538th pick (Astros.com)
- And here he is chatting about his new career as a pro baseball player (Twitter - Mark Berman)
- Cristian Javier and Framber Valdez are pitches with opposite extremes, and baseball nerds couldn’t be happier (FanGraphs)
- Austin Pruitt had a decent little rehab outing last night, tossing a scoreless inning for the Skeeters (Twitter - Mark Berman)
Around the League
- For the 8th straight year the AL brought home the victory for the All Star Game (MLB.com)
- And Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is your All Star MVP (MLB.com)
- Meanwhile, Shohei Ohtani was tagged as the winning pitcher after tossing a perfect 1st inning (MLB.com)
- Liam Hendricks got the save as well as some attention for his miced up potty mouth on the mound (Sporting News)
- But the biggest takeaway on social media was the god awful uniforms (AP News)
- Everyone can rejoice as it looks as though MLB will drop the extra inning runners and 7-inning doubleheader rules in 2022 (ESPN)