The Astros have agreed to a one-year, $12 million contract with the outfielder Michael Brantley, pending a physical. Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal reported on the value of the contract, with New York Post’s Jon Heyman (Twitter connections) adding that the deal also contains $4 million in additional incentive bonuses. Robert Murray of FanSided (Twitter link) initially …
With a frenzied Winter Meeting in the rearview mirror, here are some things we’ll be looking at around baseball throughout the day: 1. After the Bogaerts stunner, what’s next for the shortstop market? Late last night, the Padres and Xander Bogaerts agreed to a massive 11-year, $280 million deal. As things appeared to be progressing …
A three-year, $58.5 million deal seemed high for first baseman Jose Abreu, who turns 36 on January 29. Athleticism‘s Keith Law criticized the Astros for paying him so much. But the competition for Abreu, according to major league and media sources, may explain how, even at an advanced age, he outgrew his previous three-year, $50 …
Major League Baseball’s offseason is on. We are now over a week away from the end of the World Series, General Manager Meetings took place last week and free agency is officially underway. Now, it could still be quite slow for a few weeks. First, players who received extended qualification offers still have until Tuesday …
Raphael Montero and the Astros have agreed to a three-year, $34.5 million contract, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reports. Montero is the third reliever to fall off the board early, after the re-signed from the Padres Robert Suarez and the Mets held on Edwin Diaz. It’s a remarkable deal considering Montero has only amassed 0.1 bWAR in …
The Houston Astros won the 2022 World Series less than a week ago. On Friday, general manager James Click left the organization after declining a contract renewal, the team announced. “We are grateful for all of James’ contributions,” owner Jim Crane said in a statement. “We’ve been very successful in each of his three seasons, …
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This offseason (perhaps it’s just a particularly sassy series of GM meetings) has already delivered an unusually high volume of rumors. I really like. I mean, this is a list of *only* Cubs-specific things from the last 24 hours or so. And on the speculation front, there are plausible angles of interest for guys like …
2:44 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN close ESPN MLB InsiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” At a press conference to welcome back Dusty Baker as Houston Astros manager, team owner Jim Crane tiptoed to answer questions about general manager James Click, saying that he was “in discussions” …
LAS VEGAS – Maybe Astros owner Jim Crane is expected to wear his new World Series ring on his middle finger. That’s what he might as well extend to two of the men who got him the jewelry. Some 67 hours after Houston won its second championship, its first since perhaps the biggest scandal in …
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The Houston Astros are World Series champions for 2022. The Astros beat the visiting Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday night in Game 6, 4-1, and in doing so took the series by a four-game tally against of them. For Houston, Framber Valdez was nearly clear until he allowed a sixth-inning solo homer to Kyle Schwarber that …
