{"id":425796,"date":"2026-01-20T16:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/425796\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T16:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:08:12","slug":"astros-2026-top-mlb-prospects-deep-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/425796\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros 2026 Top MLB Prospects Deep Dive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our latest MLB Farm System Deep Dive for 2026, J.J. Cooper and Geoff Pontes get together to talk about the Astros, whose prospect ranks were thinned out a bit recently in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/stories\/astros-trade-jacob-melton-anderson-brito-to-rays-in-3-team-deal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trade that brought back MLB starting pitcher Mike Burrows<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/teams\/2010-houston-astros\/prospects\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"903\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/astros.jpg\" class=\"generic-cta-block__image-item\" alt=\"\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Time Stamps<\/p>\n<p>(00:00) Looking At The Recent Mike Burrows Trade<\/p>\n<p>(04:30) How Tough Was The Decision To Rank Xavier Neyens No. 1 And Who Were The Other Candidates?<\/p>\n<p>(14:00) How Is This System Better Or Worse Than Last Year?<\/p>\n<p>(17:35) Who Could Rank No. 1 Next Year?<\/p>\n<p>(21:45) What As The Astros Good At Developing?<\/p>\n<p>(26:45) How Has Player Development Changed Under Dana Brown?<\/p>\n<p>(35:00) Other Astros Sleepers To Watch<\/p>\n<p>(40:30) Why Geoff Is Bullish On This Farm System<\/p>\n<p>Want more podcasts like this one? Subscribe below!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/baseball-america\/id201539011?mt=2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2o8Ih6zootYEy8XlFAsjCf?si=INR_M2hjTbe4fQ1uSBFWOg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/player.fm\/series\/baseball-america-2150939\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Player FM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In our latest MLB Farm System Deep Dive for 2026, J.J. Cooper and Geoff Pontes get together to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-425796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}