J.P. Hoornstra writes and edits Major League Baseball content. A veteran of 20 years of sports coverage for daily newspapers in California, J.P. covered MLB, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Los ...

When Cam Smith made his MLB debut on opening day for the Houston Astros, it was the third-fastest that someone had gone ...

When Cam Smith made his MLB debut on opening day for the Houston Astros, it was the third-fastest that someone had gone from ...

Billy Smith, a pitcher for the Houston Astros team that won a second-half title in the strike-shortened 1981 season, died April 5. He was 70. Smith's major league career consisted of 11 games ...