Friday Morning Hot Links

*The Astros have won the opening game in nine straight series after beating the Yankees 3-2 last night on Keuchel's strong start, Correa's 2-run homer, and Jake Marisnick's outfield assist to end the game. Keuchel threw 6IP, 5H/1R (0ER), 9K:1BB. Keuchel, who has a career 1.24 ERA in seven starts against the Yankees:

Maybe I just like the New York lights

And the entire fan base's nose starts bleeding. 

Yankees manager Joe Girardi:

He sinks it, he cuts it, his curveball, his changeup. We did a much better job in the fifth and sixth innings, we made him work and got him out of the game. We just never really got the one big hit.

*On Marisnick's throw to end the game:

You have to take that shot. It took a perfect throw to get him. If there's less than two outs, you don't do it, but it's the right call. He made a perfect throw. 

*The Astros are seven games up on the 2nd-place Angels, matching the biggest lead the Astros enjoyed in the 2015 season, last on May 4, 2015 before going and getting swept by Flower Mound. 

*Luhnow said the team is in no rush to make a rotation move:

We're going to be active in conversations so we know who's available and when they might be traded, but I don't feel like we're going to be in any hurry, especially since we've gotten off to a good start. As long as we continue to play well, there's no urgency to solve a problem right now. 

*The New York Post's Joel Sherman looked at the two paths the Astros and Yankees took to get to 1st place in their division. Yankees GM Brian Cashman:

(Tanking) is not something that was afforded to us here. So we had to go a different route. 

*Ken Giles thanks the Phillies' organization, and Jonathan Papelbon, in particular. Giles, on this year:

I am in more of a comfort zone this year. Things feel so much better this year.

*George Springer teases Gurriel's hair before games. 

*Beltran was hopeful to re-sign with the Yankees for 2017, but didn't want to wait around for an offer. 

*While this isn't the point of the article, Beltran got to pick his kids up from school yesterday. 

*Jon Heyman's AL Notes column is out and the first note on the Astros is about.............Doug Fister.

*Updated Baseball America Top 100 Prospect rankings! (Pre-season rankings in parentheses):

15. Kyle Tucker (19)

19. Frankie Tuesday (16)

39. Franklin Perez (54)

66. A.J. Reed (72)

67. David Paulino (51)

*Sam Miller: Just tell us if you're juicing the ball.

*MLBTR has a great look back at the 1992 Expansion Draft.

*David Roth: Roger Clemens, Suzy Waldman, and the Freakout Heard 'Round the World