SAN ANTONIO — A week into Alex Bregman’s free agency, the Houston Astros are one team involved in a “very healthy” market for the third baseman, his agent Scott Boras said Wednesday.

On Tuesday, general manager Dana Brown declared a reunion with Bregman is the Astros’ top offseason priority and said he has had “productive conversations” with Boras.

As the top third baseman and one of the top hitters on the free-agent market, Bregman is poised to seek the kind of megadeal Houston has rarely awarded. Brown described his talks with Boras as being “in the beginning stages” Tuesday but stated the team’s “mindset right now is that he’s not going elsewhere and we want to sign him.”

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“I think with Alex Bregman, his leadership, what he provides in the locker room, they clearly understand the rarity of being in four World Series and being in the postseason eight years in a row and him being a centerpiece of that,” Boras, speaking at the league’s GM meetings, said of the Astros. “They’ve certainly measured to me throughout the process that they’re actively engaged.

“As to meeting markets and the demand for this kind of player, you just don’t have many players on the dirt that do what he does. Also that Bregman can play second base, third base, his leadership. It’s a market, certainly, that the Astros are very aware is very healthy.”

Boras mostly declined to discuss if specific teams would be fits for free agents he represents during a 45-minute media scrum Wednesday. But other teams that could have interest in acquiring Bregman to play third base include the Tigers, Yankees, Mets, Mariners or Nationals. A sharp drop in the free-agent class at third after Bregman could enhance his market.