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We all expect a blockbuster trade from the Houston Astros. Depending on your belief and opinion of the current front office, it is owner Jim Crane’s money and team, and he has allowed his baseball operations staff go after top talent in late July.
The luxury tax threshold is not limiting general manager James Click’s spending, and while the Astros have lost four draft picks in the past two years, they could be looking to lose more in 2022.
As a penalty for the sign stealing scandal and for going over the CBT, the organization lost and shuffled picks as punishment.