{"id":525490,"date":"2026-03-07T22:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T22:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/525490\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T22:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T22:13:14","slug":"astros-sign-catcher-christian-vazquez-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/525490\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros sign catcher Christian V\u00e1zquez to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/hou\/houston-astros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Astros<\/a> signed veteran catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/31389\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian V\u00e1zquez<\/a> to a minor league deal and invited him to spring training, the team announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old returns to the Astros for the first time since being a part of the team that won the World Series in 2022. He also won a title with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-red-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>V\u00e1zquez spent the past three years with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-twins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Twins<\/a>, but he struggled offensively last season, batting .189 with three homers and 14 RBIs. His best season came in 2019 with the Red Sox, when he hit .276 with a career-high 23 homers and 72 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently playing for Puerto Rico in the World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. &#8212; The Houston Astros signed veteran catcher Christian V\u00e1zquez to a minor league deal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-525490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525490","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=525490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}