Astros double-down on 2025 gameplan with non-tender deadline decisions

Houston Astros v Miami Marlins | Carmen Mandato/GettyImagesThe Houston Astros had some fundamental choices to make at Friday's non-tender deadline. They could either stay the course with some of their 2025 additions and hope they work out next season or they could non-tender them to save some money and use the savings to look for better alternatives. With the number of potential non-tender candidates they had and the potential savings in play, most thought that a roster culling was coming.

However, that ultimately was not the case. While names like Yainer Diaz, Hunter Brown, Bryan Abreu, and Jeremy Peña were mortal locks to stick around, only the recently DFA'd Ramon Urias was non-tendered,…