{"id":127247,"date":"2026-01-17T18:13:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/127247\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T18:13:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:13:39","slug":"astros-riley-unroe-inks-nri-deal-with-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/127247\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros&#8217; Riley Unroe: Inks NRI deal with Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768673618_607_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/HOU\/houston-astros\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/320.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/HOU\/houston-astros\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Astros<\/a> signed <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/2066826\/unroe\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Unroe<\/a> to a minor-league contract Jan. 12 that includes an invitation to spring training.<\/p>\n<p>Unroe has 12 minor-league seasons under his belt but has yet to make his major-league debut. The 30-year-old batted .278\/.397\/.409 with four home runs and 12 stolen bases with Triple-A Toledo in the Tigers organization in 2025. Unroe can play all over the diamond, giving the Astros some utility depth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Astros signed Unroe to a minor-league contract Jan. 12 that includes an invitation to spring training. Unroe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[30927,56,5513,58,57,54926],"class_list":{"0":"post-127247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-fantasy-baseball","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-astros","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-riley-unroe"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}