Given the prospects the Houston Astros had to offer this offseason, it wasn't a surprise that they didn't pull off a trade for one of Joe Ryan, Tarik Skubal, or Freddy Peralta. Instead, the Astros landed Mike Burrows from the Pirates as part of a three-team trade that included the Pittsburgh Pirates and Tampa Bay Rays.
Burrows does check the box of being an arm capable of taking the mound for Houston every five days, and given the multiple years of control, it made sense why Dana Brown felt comfortable parting ways with prospects Jacob Melton and Anderson Brito.