{"id":322059,"date":"2025-12-03T05:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/322059\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T05:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:31:07","slug":"astros-have-received-interest-in-jesus-sanchez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/322059\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros Have Received Interest In Jesus Sanchez"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Astros are losing\u00a0Framber Valdez<\/a> to free agency, leaving them in need of multiple starting pitchers behind ace Hunter Brown<\/a>. Houston has taken cheap one-year fliers on former top prospect Nate Pearson<\/a> and KBO returnee\u00a0Ryan Weiss<\/a> to compete for spots at the back of the staff. Those are fine dice rolls, but they\u2019ll need to acquire someone whom they can comfortably slot alongside\u00a0Cristian Javier<\/a> in the middle of the rotation.<\/p>\n

If owner Jim Crane remains loathe to cross the luxury tax line, the front office won\u2019t have much flexibility to add free agent starting pitching. Chandler Rome of The Athletic<\/a> writes that the club is indeed more likely to address the rotation via trade. One of the league\u2019s weakest farm systems won\u2019t do them any favors, so they might be looking at dealing from the MLB roster to accomplish that.<\/p>\n

Houston is reportedly open to dealing<\/a> standout defensive center fielder Jake Meyers<\/a> for pitching. Meyers is coming off a career-best season at the plate and is controllable via arbitration for two seasons. He\u2019s the best trade chip in the Houston outfield, but he\u2019s not the only candidate to move this offseason. Rome reports that the Astros have gotten interest from other clubs in right fielder Jes\u00fas S\u00e1nchez<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n

That could explain why S\u00e1nchez remains on the roster at all. MLBTR contributor Matt Swartz projects<\/a> him for a $6.5MM salary in his third of four trips through the arbitration process. It came as a surprise that Houston tendered him a contract. S\u00e1nchez had a very poor finish to the 2025 season, batting .199\/.269\/.342 over 160 plate appearances after being acquired from Miami at the trade deadline. Combined with the escalating salaries and the payroll restrictions, it made him a non-tender candidate.<\/p>\n

General manager Dana Brown acknowledged at last month\u2019s GM Meetings that he was open to trade inquiries on S\u00e1nchez. Even if they\u2019re not especially interested in paying him $6-7MM, it seems they found enough interest that they didn\u2019t want to let him go for no return.<\/p>\n

S\u00e1nchez isn\u2019t going to net a mid-rotation arm, but it\u2019s possible they swap him for a back-end starter. Teams like the Royals, Pirates, Guardians and Phillies could look to the trade market for a corner outfielder. While S\u00e1nchez has never lived up to his billing as a top prospect, he was an alright everyday player throughout his time with the Marlins. He was a league average hitter between 2021 and the \u201925 deadline, hitting .246\/.312\/.432 in nearly 1900 plate appearances. He has plus bat speed and has typically posted strong exit velocities, though his batted ball metrics also collapsed in Houston.<\/p>\n

Even if the Astros are unlikely to swap S\u00e1nchez for their biggest rotation pickup of the offseason, a change-of-scenery deal would create a bit of spending room. Trading both S\u00e1nchez and Meyers would leave them very thin in the outfield, and dealing the former would subtract one of their few left-handed bats. While Dana Brown has already said they\u2019re not interested<\/a> in moving Isaac Paredes<\/a>, that might be something the front office needs to consider later in the offseason if they can\u2019t find a mid-rotation arm in a different way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Astros are losing\u00a0Framber Valdez to free agency, leaving them in need of multiple starting pitchers behind ace…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,29033,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-322059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-jesus-sanchez","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}