They don't throw away money on the Montero's, Abreu's, and Javier's, McCuller's, and Waker's of the world. Instead they pick up trash heap guys like Ernie Clement and turn them into very productive players. They also nearly $60M coming off the books after the 2026 season with the FA of Springer, Gausman, Garcia, and Varsho. They locked up Guerrero at a great contract for them, and he's currently their only long-term commitment. Gimenez, Santander, and Kirk are all signed through 2030 with a couple of those guys TOs.
However, looking at our balance sheet, we are in pretty good shape moving forward.
Correa and Altuve are signed through 2029, but both are negative values at this point in their careers, unless Correa has one of those 30-year old career bounces. There should be no reason he isn't a 4-5 WAR/Y player for the remainder of his contract. If he's not then the Astros have a real problem. Alvarez is signed through 2028 with no options. If he can actually stay healthy this season, I would sign him to an extension to try to get some cost certainity with the team. The Astros absolutely fucked up by failing to lock down Pena and Brown.
They are also going to be completely gutted after 2028 with the FA of Javier, Walker, Paredes, Sanchez, Meyers, and Pena.
The organization has done an absolutely shitty job manaing their balance sheet, unless they get some of these guys signed.