The Houston Astros have signed first baseman Christian Walker to a three-year, $60 million contract. The team is looking forward to Walker's contributions after releasing their previous first baseman. However, Alex Bregman, a key player for the Astros for the past nine seasons, remains a free agent after negotiations stalled.
Christian Walker 's time in Houston. But the tenure of Bregman , a two-time All Star, didn't end without a concentrated effort the club was satisfied with. On a day when Walker officially signed a $60 million, three-year contract that will pay him $20 million annually, which came just more than a week after the Astros acquired infielder to Chicago, the talk around the team seemed to focus more on who won't be back with the Astros next season.
'The way I view it right now is Paredes is going to play third base and Walker is going to play first base,' general manager Dana Brown said Monday.'And Bregman's still a free agent.' The Astros had hoped to re-sign Bregman, the team's third baseman for the last nine seasons, but Brown said the negotiations stalled. 'I thought we made a really competitive offer, showing that we wanted him back,' he said.'But we had to pursue other options. We couldn't just sit there. We locked in Paredes early in that trade, knowing that he could play third or first and then when the opportunity to add another bat came up we just jumped on it.' The addition of a first baseman was a priority this offseason for the Astros after they released struggling first baseman We knew we had to get better at first base,' Brown said.'We pursued (Walker) and we're excited to have him because we know that we're going to have a really good first baseman that can defend and also hit the ball on the seats from time to time.' Walker was attracted by the sustained success of the Astros, who won their first two World Series titles in 2017 and '22. 'I've been watching this team for a while now, and that edge, the energy, the expectation, you can tell that they're going out there with a standard,' he said.'And I'm very excited to be a part of it.''I get a chance to learn from Jose Altuve,' Walker said.'Nothing really gets better than that.''I would just tell the fans that look, we are very focused on remaining competitive,' he sai
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