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Astros Crawfish Boil: February 2nd, 2022

Having a tough time sticking to family friendly language this morning now that the delay of Spring Training is all but confirmed

By CKuno Feb 2, 2022, 8:30am CST

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Royals Charities will be covering admission into the Negro League Baseball Museum for the month of February in case you happen to be in Kansas City (MLB.com)
MiLB seeks to celebrate and honor both black baseball pioneers and civil rights heroes with a new minority outreach program called “The Nine” (AP News)
Speaking of barriers being broken, here are the women who are doing just that at the MLB level (Astros.com)
Keith Law released his top 100 MLB prospects list and it had no Astros on it, which means it’s trash... just kidding... sort of (The Athletic, $$$)
Korey Lee just missed cracking the 100, but he’s a top prospect in my heart (The Athletic, $$$)
CBA negotiations continue as the MLBPA made another concession in the most recent meeting (MLB Trade Rumors)
But it looks increasingly likely that Spring Training will be delayed as there hasn’t been much movement (ESPN)
An advocacy group for Minor League baseball players has made it clear that they’re not exactly impressed with MLB’s housing initiative (Sports Illustrated)
The semifinals for the Caribbean Series are set to begin today (MLB.com)
So are the Chiefs basically the NFL equivalent of the Astros? (Houston Sportsmap)
RotoGraphs is pretty high on Yordan Alvarez, as am I (RotoGraphs)