Astros Sign Drabek for $19.5 Million : Baseball: Jose Guzman also signs a four-year contract, with the Cubs. The Red Sox get Fletcher.

Two more free-agent pitchers signed four-year contracts Tuesday, Doug Drabek going to the Houston Astros for $19.5 million and Jose Guzman to the Chicago Cubs for $14.35 million.

The deals, which came a day after John Smiley’s $18.4-million, four-year contract with the Cincinnati Reds, leave Greg Maddux, David Cone, Greg Swindell and Chris Bosio as the top available pitchers.

Also Tuesday:

--Scott Fletcher and the Boston Red Sox agreed to a $1.2-million, two-year contract.

--Cincinnati claimed first baseman Tommy Gregg on waivers from the Atlanta Braves and Gregg agreed to a one-year contract worth $375,000.

--Kirby Puckett met with the Philadelphia Phillies.

--Dave Winfield’s agent rejected an offer from the Toronto Blue Jays.

--The Atlanta Braves said they were interested in reliever Todd Worrell.

--The Reds offered Swindell salary arbitration, which enables the team to negotiate with the left-handed pitcher through Jan. 8.

Ranking free agents must be offered salary arbitration by next Monday or their former clubs lose the right to sign them until May 1. If teams decline to offer arbitration, they don’t receive a draft pick if their former players sign with another club.

Of Drabek, who lives in a Houston suburb, Astro General Manager Bill Wood said: “This is the most significant acquisition this club had made in quite some time, possibly a decade.”

Drabek, who earned $4.5 million last year, in May rejected a $19.5-million, four-year offer to remain with the Pittsburgh Pirates. The 30-year-old right-hander, who won the National League Cy Young Award in 1990, is 99-70. He was 15-11 last season with a 3.84 earned-run average.

Guzman, a 29-year-old right-hander, was 16-11 with a 3.66 ERA for the Texas Rangers last season. His signing means the Cubs won’t attempt to re-sign Maddux, the National League Cy Young Award winner.

“Our offer is off the table,” Cub General Manager Larry Himes said.

Guzman, who has spent his entire career with the Rangers, had two strong years after sitting out the 1989 season because of a torn rotator cuff and spending 1990 in the minors on injury rehabilitation assignments. He made his major league debut with the Rangers in September of 1985.

“We talked about a contract right until the end,” Ranger General Manager Tom Grieve said.

“I thought it was in the ballpark, but it obviously wasn’t good enough. Maybe it was in the bleachers and they were at second base.”

Guzman made $1.465 million last season.

Said Fletcher, who made $300,000 last season: “I really enjoyed it in Milwaukee and would have loved to come back, but I want a chance to play on an everyday basis. With Boston, I’ll have a chance to win a job at second base.”

Fletcher will compete with Tim Naehring for the starting spot at second.

Said Brewer General Manager Sal Bando: “We offered him a two-year deal, too, and told him we were willing to match Boston’s money. He told me it came down to an opportunity to start.”