{"id":956134,"date":"2026-11-03T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T01:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/956134\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T01:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T01:00:08","slug":"astros-exercise-club-option-on-isaac-paredes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/956134\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros Exercise Club Option On Isaac Paredes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Astros announced they have exercised a $13.35MM club option for infielder Isaac Paredes<\/a>. Chandler Rome of The Athletic<\/a> was among those to relay the info.<\/p>\n

There was never any doubt this option would be picked up. Paredes put together a terrific 2026 season, delivering a .262\/.360\/.447 batting line with 25 homers, 27 doubles and a triple. He walked at a healthy 10.8% clip and struck out in a career-low 13.4% of his plate appearances. Metrics like Defensive Runs Saved (-7) and Outs Above Average (-4) panned his defensive work at the hot corner, but he also showed some versatility by helping out for brief spells at first base (58 innings) and second base (25 innings).<\/p>\n

Paredes hit well both at home and on the road, but his swing is practically tailor-made for Houston\u2019s Daikin Park, where the short porch down the left field line dovetails with Paredes\u2019 extreme fly-ball, pull-oriented approach. He belted 14 homers in 324 plate appearances in Houston compared to 11 in 335 trips to the plate on the road.<\/p>\n

The Astros enter the 2026-27 offseason with the same crowded infield they faced last winter. Paredes, Carlos Correa<\/a>, Jeremy Pe\u00f1a<\/a>, Jose Altuve<\/a> and Christian Walker<\/a> give them five infielders for four spots. There\u2019s no real DH time available \u2014 not with MVP candidate Yordan Alvarez<\/a> standing in that spot as one of the game\u2019s top all-around hitters (if not\u00a0the top all-around hitter). Houston tried in the past to move Altuve to left field, but that experiment wound up producing even worse defensive results than Altuve has been registering at second base as he moves into his late 30s.<\/p>\n

Houston only brought Correa back at the 2025 trade deadline after Paredes was lost to what they expected was a season-ending injury. All the talk of a \u201csurplus\u201d last offseason faded quickly when Pe\u00f1a and Correa were injured early in the year. They\u2019re both healthy now, and there\u2019s a chance that the \u2018Stros finally make a move to deal from that infield depth. They\u2019ll have a new general manager in place \u2014 former Cardinals assistant GM Randy Flores nabbed the job recently \u2014 and each of Paredes, Pe\u00f1a and Walker is now just one year from free agency.<\/p>\n

That all makes it easier to dump some of the $20MM Walker is still owed on the tail end of his three-year deal, and it creates greater justification for listening on Paredes or Pe\u00f1a. Trading the latter would be particularly difficult, but it\u2019s a pretty similar situation to the one the Astros encountered with Kyle Tucker<\/a> ahead of his final season of club control. Tucker was slated to be the top free agent in his class the following winter and was repped by an agency (Excel Sports Management) that rarely, if ever, negotiates extensions prior to free agency. Pe\u00f1a, repped by the Boras Corporation, is in a similar spot. Even if he were open to an extension, owner Jim Crane has never gone beyond six years or $150MM for a player in his tenure. Pe\u00f1a should be in line for a deal that would require Crane to completely break the precedent he\u2019s established \u2014 something well north of $200MM.<\/p>\n

For the time being, Paredes will be slated to return to the infield mix \u2014 though his exact role will be to be determined. Whether the Astros trade someone \u2014 perhaps even Paredes himself \u2014 will determine where he\u2019s lining up, and one more good year should position him for a nice free agent deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Astros announced they have exercised a $13.35MM club option for infielder Isaac Paredes. Chandler Rome of The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":956135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,3971,462,82],"class_list":["post-956134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-isaac-paredes","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956134","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=956134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}