Over the next few weeks I will be looking at the top performers at each level in the Astros system. This week is the Corpus Christi Hooks.<\/p>\n
Zach Cole, OF
Cole got off to a slow start this season with some injuries but once he got hot he couldn\u2019t be stopped. He started the year in Double-A and in 82 games he had 19 doubles, 14 home runs and a .868 OPS. He was promoted to Triple-A where he hit went nuclear hitting .353 with 5 home runs over 15 games before earning a call-up to Houston. Overall he had a 22 doubles, 7 triples, 19 home runs and a system leading 151 wRC+ over 97 games.<\/p>\n
Trey Dombroski, LHP
After a tough season in 2024 for Dombroski, he turned things around this year. The left-hander posted a 3.61 ERA with 116 strikeouts over 112.1 innings. He allowed just 91 hits in Double-A good for a 7.3 H\/9, down from 11.1 H\/9 last year. He made two starts in Triple-A too and should start there next season.<\/p>\n
Pascanel Ferreras, INF
Ferreras was the last pick of the 2023 draft and has already defied the odds making it up to Double-A. He played the full season in Corpus Christi and led the team in hits and doubles. In 113 games, Ferreras hit .242 with 23 doubles, 3 triples and 7 home runs. He finished strong hitting .275 over his final 43 games while playing all over the infield for the Hooks.<\/p>\n
Alimber Santa, RHP
Santa turned heads in spring training when, as a teenager, the right hander sat 96-97 MPH with his fastball and showed a changeup, slider and curveball. After some injuries the Astros moved him to relief this season and he performed well for the Hooks posting a 1.26 ERA in 57 innings allowing 35 hits. He was promoted to Triple-A and he struggled a bit but was a solid season overall for Santa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the next few weeks I will be looking at the top performers at each level in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,16760,16761],"class_list":["post-23296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-houston-astros-minor-league-news","tag-houston-astros-prospects-minor-leagues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}