The Houston Astros person immoderate questions to reply this offseason. The biggest 1 centers astir 3rd baseman Alex Bregman, who is present a escaped agent.
However, Astros wide manager Dana Brown precocious revealed that helium is listening to commercialized offers for outfielder Kyle Tucker. The three-time All-Star is entering the last twelvemonth of his contract.
Left-hander Framber Valdez is besides successful his locomotion year. Jacob Mountz of FanSided projected a chaotic commercialized thought that would impact Houston sending some Tucker and Valdez to the Boston Red Sox.
"After 2025, 2 cardinal players are acceptable to participate escaped agency: Framber Valdez and Kyle Tucker. Given some of these studs inhabit positions Boston needs to upgrade, trading for them would marque cleanable sense," Mountz wrote.
This would beryllium a brainsick deal. Houston would beryllium receiving a decent haul from the Red Sox, with prospects Franklin Arias, Miguel Bleis and Brooks Brannon from the Red Sox.
The woody would marque the Red Sox instant favorites to triumph the American League East. However, it would beryllium a determination to rebuild for the Astros, and determination isn't overmuch denotation that they program to bash that.
While trading players successful their locomotion twelvemonth is not an uncommon practice, the Astros apt won't privation to propulsion distant the 2025 season, and this would not beryllium a win-now move, adjacent though Bleis and Brannon are Boston's No. 8 and No. 27 prospects, respectively.
Still, it volition beryllium absorbing to spot if thing brainsick happens successful the last days of the Winter Meetings. This woody would surely beryllium a blockbuster, but it remains to beryllium seen if Houston would beryllium consenting to portion with some Tucker and Valdez.
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