{"id":395761,"date":"2026-08-02T19:05:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T19:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395761\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T19:05:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T19:05:31","slug":"houston-astros-dont-want-to-trade-from-major-league-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395761\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Astros don’t want to trade from major-league roster"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Houston Astros <\/a>do not want to deal from their major-league roster in their pursuit of help ahead of Monday\u2019s trade deadline, general manager Dana Brown told the team\u2019s pregame radio show Sunday.<\/p>\n

One way to mitigate both might be for Houston to trade from its major-league roster to off-set both the prospect cost and additional payroll created by any acquisitions. The Astros entered Sunday roughly $11 million below the first CBT threshold, per Cot\u2019s Contracts.<\/p>\n

Brown, however, told the pregame radio show: \u201cWe do not want to pull from our major-league team. We have a good core, we\u2019ve got a good group going right now and the team\u2019s playing very well, everyone\u2019s settling into their role. So we\u2019d like to keep it like that and not pull from our major-league team.\u201d<\/p>\n

If that stance holds, it suggests the Astros will need to pursue trades by offering prospects from a farm system <\/a>widely ranked among the sport\u2019s thinnest by outside evaluators. Brown acknowledged as much during his radio appearance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe tough part is sometimes in order to get something you have to give up something, and that sometimes means your prospects,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n

Houston\u2019s farm system was ranked 26th of 30 teams in the most recent rankings from Baseball America, which has 2025 first-round pick Xavier Neyens as the club\u2019s only top-100 overall prospect. MLB Pipeline ranks Neyens and outfielder Kevin Alvarez among its top-100 overall prospects.<\/p>\n

Brown did not offer specifics about the Astros\u2019 trade discussions with about 30 hours until the deadline but said \u201ccalls have definitely started to heat up starting yesterday\u201d and the team is \u201cvery hopeful\u201d and \u201clocking into a few things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown also said he believes \u201cwe definitely have the prospect capital\u201d required to consummate a trade. Brown did his interview remotely from what he described as a \u201cwar room,\u201d which he said included the team\u2019s assistant general managers, director-level staff and \u201cof course\u201d senior advisor to ownership and baseball operations Jeff Bagwell. Astros owner Jim Crane will also \u201cpop in,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n

The Astros entered Sunday\u2019s series finale against the Texas Rangers with a 1\u00bd-game lead in the AL West, having won 10 of their last 11 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Astros do not want to deal from their major-league roster in their pursuit of help ahead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-395761","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\/395761","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=395761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}