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Astros Crawfish Boil: January 10th, 2022

Is it weird that watching football just makes me want baseball to come back sooner?

By CKuno Jan 10, 2022, 7:35am CST

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Genevieve Beacom has made history as the first professional female baseball player to play in Australia (MLB Trade Rumors)
At the same time, the Yankees have promoted Rachel Balkovec to manager of their low-A team, making her the first female manager in affiliated professional baseball (MLB.com)
The Astros have picked up another FO member in the form of Andrew Ball, who was the former Angels director of baseball operations (Twitter - Jeff Fletcher)
And that was just latest move by the surprisingly active Astros during the lockout (MLB.com)
Here are the former Astros who are currently in the middle of Hall of Fame voting (Apollo Houston)
Negotiations for the CBA are about to open back up again, but don’t expect a whole lot of movement anytime soon (The Athletic, $$$)
David Cone will join ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball while A-Rod will star in a new simulcast (ESPN)
These are the cities that came oh so close to having their own MLB teams (MLB.com)