HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 AL West-leading Houston acquired center fielder Daulton Varsho from the Toronto Blue Jays, and he was set to be available for the Astros in their game Monday night.<\/p>\n
The Astros are getting Varsho in exchange for right-handed starter Spencer Arrighetti.<\/p>\n
Varsho, a Gold Glove winner in 2024, provides a big boost in the outfield for the Astros, who with a three-game sweep of the Texas Rangers over the weekend took over the division lead for the first time since early April. Houston went from a half-game deficit to a 2 1\/2-game lead after the weekend series.<\/p>\n
In 99 games this season, Varsho has hit .243 with seven homers and 26 RBIs. He had 20 homers in 71 big league games last season for the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n
Varsho is a .229 career hitter with 106 homers and 321 RBIs in 747 games for Arizona and Toronto since his 2020 debut.<\/p>\n
Arrighetti, who is on the 15-day injured list because of nerve irritation in his right foot, is 7-5 with a 4.60 ERA in 17 starts this season. The 26-year-old Texas native was 15-23 in 53 games for the Astros since 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 AL West-leading Houston acquired center fielder Daulton Varsho from the Toronto Blue Jays, and he…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":978717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,392789,119864,223492,223490,324435,7202,7203,244742,358,8790,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-978716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-america","tag-astros-blue-jays-trade-varsho-arrighetti","tag-daulton-varsho","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-san-antonio","tag-sanantonio","tag-spencer-arrighetti","tag-texas","tag-toronto","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117033822293454517","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/978717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}