The Houston Astros are facing one of the more instrumental MLB drafts for the franchise in recent years.
Houston’s farm system has been ranked as one of baseball’s worst in recent seasons. The Astros have a chance to add some top-tier talent with two picks among the first 28 in this year’s draft, which will be held Saturday and Sunday in Philadelphia, site of the All-Star Game.
The Astros hold the 14th pick in the first round and will also pick 28th as a Prospect Promotion Incentive selection awarded for Hunter Brown finishing in the top three of last year’s American League Cy Young Award voting. The Astros will also have picks 57, 93 and 121 on Saturday.
The first four rounds of the draft will be held Saturday, beginning at noon. NBC and Peacock will air the first 10 picks, with MLB Network airing picks 11-40 and MLB.com and MLB TV streaming the rest of the day’s picks and all of Sunday’s final 16 rounds.
Ahead of this year’s draft, here’s a look back at the most notable picks in Astros history.
While not all of these players spent the bulk of their careers in Houston, drafting them and keeping them are two different matters. So we focused on the former and not the latter.