{"id":446254,"date":"2026-01-30T00:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T00:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446254\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T00:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T00:46:07","slug":"astros-to-acquire-kai-wei-teng-from-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446254\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros To Acquire Kai-Wei Teng From Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Giants and Astros are closing in on a trade that\u2019ll send starter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/tengka01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-29_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kai-Wei Teng<\/a> to the Astros for minor league catcher\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=villar000jan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jancel Villarroel<\/a>, reports <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Chandler_Rome\/status\/2017032514510950434\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chandler Rome of The Athletic<\/a>. San Francisco needed to create a 40-man roster spot in order to finalize their <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/01\/giants-sign-harrison-bader.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">two-year deal<\/a> with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/baderha01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-29_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Harrison Bader<\/a>. It appears a Teng trade will be that corresponding move.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Giants and Astros are closing in on a trade that\u2019ll send starter\u00a0Kai-Wei Teng to the Astros for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,45519,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-446254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-kai-wei-teng","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}