{"id":374160,"date":"2026-07-15T15:56:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/374160\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:56:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:56:38","slug":"houston-astros-trades-pitcher-lance-mccullers-being-dealt-to-brewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/374160\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Astros trades: Pitcher Lance McCullers being dealt to Brewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Astros<\/a> are finalizing a trade of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/article\/houston-lance-mccullers-jr-stretch-no-windup-21946494.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Lance McCullers Jr.<\/a> to the Milwaukee Brewers, two people with knowledge of the move confirmed Wednesday.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>McCullers, 32, who is in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/texas-sports-nation\/astros\/article\/Source-Astros-Lance-McCullers-Jr-extension-16050523.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">final season of a five-year, $85 million extension<\/a>, agreed to waive his no-trade clause for the deal, a person with knowledge confirmed. The full details of the trade were not immediately known.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>A first-round pick by the Astros in 2012 and their longest-tenured pitcher, McCullers became an All-Star and a postseason icon in 2017 amid Houston\u2019s run to its first World Series title. But his years since have been plagued by injuries.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>McCullers finished seventh in AL Cy Young voting in 2021 but has since thrown just 142 \u2153 innings. He has made eight major-league starts this season with a 6.86 ERA and is on the injured list rehabbing from a shoulder ailment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Astros are finalizing a trade of Lance McCullers Jr. to the Milwaukee Brewers, two people with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-374160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374160","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=374160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}