{"id":838690,"date":"2026-10-27T04:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T04:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/838690\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T04:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T04:24:25","slug":"what-the-astros-next-general-manager-inherits-this-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/838690\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Astros\u2019 Next General Manager Inherits This Offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest questions to answer is how to navigate this crowded infield. With all the talent, giving each of these players the playing time they deserve will be tricky. Trading <a href=\"https:\/\/roundtable.io\/sports\/mlb\/astros\/opinion\/what-would-the-astros-infield-look-like-without-christian-walker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Walker<\/a> could help solve their crowded infield problem. The question is whether his inconsistency outweighs what he brings to the lineup. Of Walker, Paredes, and Pe\u00f1a, Walker is the oldest and costs the most, but that is something the new GM will have to weigh before making a decision. Walker is owed $20 million in 2027, the final year of his three-year, $60 million contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the biggest questions to answer is how to navigate this crowded infield. With all the talent,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,12962,139,54,3211,4],"class_list":["post-838690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-astros","tag-astros","tag-baseball","tag-coaching","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houstonastros","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117510973930168044","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838690","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=838690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}