HOUSTON, TX - The Houston Astros have acquired RHP Kendall Graveman in exchange for minor league C Korey Lee. The announcement was made by Astros General Manager Dana Brown.

Graveman, 32, returns to the Astros after posting a 3-4 record with eight saves and a 3.48 ERA (17ER/44IP) in 45 appearances with the White Sox this season. This is his second time to be acquired by Houston, who also picked him up in a mid-season trade in 2021 from Seattle. In his two months with the Astros, Graveman logged a 3.13 ERA (8ER/23IP) in 23 appearances and averaged 10.6 strikeouts-per-nine-innings. He also recorded a 1.64 ERA (2ER/11IP) through nine appearances in the 2021 postseason, including three appearances in the World Series.  

Graveman is a veteran of nine Major League seasons and owns a career 4.00 ERA (305ER/629.2IP) and 24 saves through 257 career appearances (80 starts). Over his last three seasons, pitching exclusively as a reliever, he has gone 11-9 with 24 saves while posting a 2.78 ERA (51ER/165IP) and a .219 opponent's batting average in 163 appearances.

Lee, 25, was selected by the Astros in the first round (32nd overall) of the 2019 MLB First-Year Player Draft from University of California-Berkeley and has spent the last five years in the Astros system. He made his Major League debut last season and batted .160 (4x25) with two doubles and four RBI in 12 appearances, making seven starts at catcher. Lee has spent the entirety of this season with Triple A Sugar Land and has batted .283 (80x283) with five home runs and 32 RBI.

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