For four straight years, Joe Espada and Omar López carpooled to work together. When López was named the Astros’ first-base ...

The story of his 2024 season with the Houston Astros was his resurgent comeback after a disastrous start on the road against ...

Miriam Espada, Joe’s mother, wore an orange Astros scarf and held several homemade signs the family had brought for the occasion. One read: “Nicholas Sparks would be proud,” a reference to ...

Houston Astros fans are used to seeing Jose Altuve playing at second base, but the plan is for him to play most of his games in left field this season, as confirmed by his manager, Joe Espada. “Right ...

Both manager Joe Espada and GM Dana Brown spoke about wanting to get some looks at Altuve in left and wanting to reduce Yordan Alvarez’s time on the outfield grass. Even when Bregman signed in ...

Joe Espada discusses how he see things so far in camp, the new additions to the team, how they can stretch the lineup and Cam Smith ...

A handful of players have made the jump over the years. Manager Joe Espada has seen the comments about this being a bad move, but he does not agree, via a recent airing of "Foul Territory".

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — After the type of long offseason to which this franchise is not accustomed, the Houston Astros convened as a full squad for the first time in 2025 on Tuesday. “This is ...

Jose Altuve discusses adjusting to left field and his comfortability in the outfield, and Joe Espada provides analysis of ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Houston Astros manager Joe Espada wants his major-league players to take advantage of their limited exposure to the automated ball-strike challenge system being tested ...