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Astros' Framber Valdez connected to lousy NL team in MLB free agency

It seems all but guaranteed that Framber Valdez will be in a good position to get paid this winter, especially after Dylan Cease took a seven-year, $210 million deal with the Toronto Blue Jays . Not that Cease is bad by any means, but he’s 29 years old and had a pretty rough year in 2025. Valdez is 32, but he's been better than Cease throughout his career.

Regardless, it doesn't seem like the Houston Astros will have much of an opportunity to keep him around, and Will Laws of Sports Illustrated predicted that to be the case.

He looked around Major League Baseball at the top free agents and predicted where they'd land, projecting that Valdez would sign with the Arizona Diamondbacks .

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