{"id":553053,"date":"2026-02-03T22:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/553053\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T22:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:20:14","slug":"does-paredes-new-deal-with-astros-make-him-more-tradeable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/553053\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Paredes New Deal with Astros Make Him More Tradeable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The deal now gives the Astros, or any new team, two years of cost certainty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Earlier today, Brian McTaggart of MLB.com reported that the Houston Astros have come to a contract agreement with 3B Isaac Paredes on a 2-year, $22.7M deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This deal having a second season with a club option (unless he finished Top 10 MVP) give the Astros a cost certainly on Paredes for the next two seasons, taking him through his final year of arbitration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It also gives cost certainty to any team that should trade for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Paredes is a player that has high value on the trade market, and having the next two years salaries established would make it easier to deal him. The Astros currently have a clear logjam at 1B with Paredes and Christian Walker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While the club would like to keep Paredes, GM Dana Brown has pined for a reliable lefty hitting outfield bat all offseason, and Paredes may be his best chance of getting one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Astros have had trade discussions revolving around Paredes all offseason with various teams. With a 2-year deal now in place taking him through his arbitration years, it may make setting compensation with an interested club easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The deal now gives the Astros, or any new team, two years of cost certainty. Earlier today, Brian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,61378,5,139,54,64940,65265,4522,36802,3211,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-553053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-astros","8":"tag-astros","9":"tag-astros-hot-stove","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-houston-astros","13":"tag-houston-astros-analysis","14":"tag-houston-astros-discussion","15":"tag-houston-astros-news","16":"tag-houston-astros-rumors","17":"tag-houstonastros","18":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116009030609771433","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}