Source: Astros land slugger Abreu on 3-year deal

First baseman Jose Abreu and the Houston Astros are successful statement connected a three-year contract, a root told ESPN, adding different run-producing bat to the World Series champions' lineup that's already filled with them.

Abreu, 35, won the American League MVP grant successful 2020 and is 2nd successful shot with 863 RBIs since his archetypal play successful the large leagues, 2014. He deed .304/.378/.446 this twelvemonth with the Chicago White Sox, for whom helium had played each 9 of his large league seasons aft defecting from Cuba.

Following a dreadful archetypal 5 weeks, Abreu was 1 of the champion hitters successful shot implicit the last three-quarters of the season, batting .335/.405/.479, though his 15 location runs implicit the full twelvemonth were a vocation low. He joins an Astros lineup with chap Cuban Yordan Álvarez, Jose Altuve, Kyle Tucker, Alex Bregman and World Series MVP Jeremy Peña.

Abreu volition regenerate Yuli Gurriel, a longtime rival successful the Cuban National Series. Abreu and Gurriel, on with Yoenis Cespedes, were wide regarded arsenic the champion players of their procreation from Cuba, some high-contact hitters -- though Abreu's powerfulness was the separator.

The White Sox extended him for 3 years and $50 cardinal aft 2019, erstwhile helium led the AL with 123 RBIs. Over his 9 seasons, Abreu deed .292/.354/.506 with 243 location runs and an adjusted OPS 34% amended than league average.

He is the 2nd signing for this wintertime for the Astros, who reupped reliever Rafael Montero connected a three-year, $34.5 cardinal contract. The Astros' projected payroll is presently successful the $175 cardinal scope -- they've exceeded $187 cardinal each of the erstwhile 5 seasons -- and they inactive anticipation to motion ace Justin Verlander, who could bid upward of $40 cardinal a year.

USA Today archetypal reported Abreu's statement with the Astros.