HOUSTON (AP) — The door to re-signing free agent Alex Bregman is “cracked” open for Houston, but keeping the third baseman with the Astros might still be a long shot, general manager Dana Brown said Saturday.
Speaking at the team’s FanFest, Brown talked at length about the possibility of re-signing Bregman, who has spent his entire nine-year career with the Astros.
“The interesting thing is when we made some trades and some moves this offseason, we never realized that Bregman would still be on the market at this time,” Brown said. “We’ve had some conversation and I could kind of leave it there, but we’ve had some conversations.