{"id":446588,"date":"2026-01-30T04:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446588\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T04:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:18:07","slug":"astros-sign-tom-cosgrove-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446588\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros Sign Tom Cosgrove To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Astros are in agreement with lefty reliever\u00a0Tom Cosgrove<\/a> on a minor league contract, reports Jon Heyman of The New York Post<\/a>. The CAA client gets a non-roster invite to MLB camp and would be paid at a $900K rate if he makes the team.<\/p>\n

Cosgrove has pitched in the majors in each of the past three seasons. The majority of his experience came in his rookie year with the Padres. He tallied 51 1\/3 innings of 1.75 ERA ball in 2023. His underlying numbers weren\u2019t nearly as impressive, and Cosgrove hasn\u2019t gotten much of an MLB look in the past two seasons. He was blitzed for 19 runs across 14 2\/3 innings in \u201924. The Padres designated him for assignment and sold his contract to the Cubs last April.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old only made two appearances in a Cubs uniform. He worked four innings of one-run ball with three strikeouts and a walk. Chicago ran him through waivers in early September. Cosgrove finished the season with a 4.53 ERA across 49 2\/3 Triple-A frames. He punched out a quarter of opponents but walked almost 13% of batters faced. He elected minor league free agency at year\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

While Houston has lacked left-handed relief depth over the past few seasons, that looks like a strength after last year.\u00a0Josh Hader<\/a> will be back in the ninth inning.\u00a0Steven Okert<\/a> and\u00a0Bennett Sousa<\/a> are coming off career years, while\u00a0Bryan King<\/a> had an impressive first full season in his own right. Cosgrove probably doesn\u2019t have a path to an Opening Day job barring multiple Spring Training injuries. All of Houston\u2019s previous non-roster invitees were right-handed, though, so it\u2019s sensible to add at least one southpaw to the camp mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Astros are in agreement with lefty reliever\u00a0Tom Cosgrove on a minor league contract, reports Jon Heyman of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85,79040],"class_list":["post-446588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-tom-cosgrove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446588","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=446588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}