Assistant GM Connor Huff Is Leaving the Astros as Randy Flores Reshapes the Front Office
Huff, a longtime family friend of owner Jim Crane who joined the franchise in 2022, will not be retained next season. Dickey and Cook are with Flores at the GM meetings.
The Houston Astros will not retain Connor Huff as assistant general manager next season, RealGM reported Tuesday. Huff's exit has been characterized as a chance for him to pursue other opportunities.
The move comes as Randy Flores, hired to run baseball operations this offseason, assembles his front office. Astros assistant general managers Gavin Dickey and Charles Cook have accompanied Flores at this week's general managers' meetings - the working group now carrying the club's offseason business.
Huff is a longtime family friend of Astros owner Jim Crane and joined the franchise in 2022. His departure is a personnel change inside a front office already in transition: a new head of baseball operations, and a managerial vacancy that remains the club's most public open job.
No successor for Huff's portfolio has been announced in the reporting read this cycle. The Astros' offseason - manager first, roster next - continues at the GM meetings.
