{"id":369589,"date":"2026-07-11T16:12:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/369589\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T16:12:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:12:32","slug":"mlb-draft-live-updates-of-houston-astros-picks-on-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/369589\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB draft: Live updates of Houston Astros&#8217; picks on Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two-day MLB draft begins Saturday afternoon in Philadelphia, with the first four rounds Saturday before concluding with rounds 5-20 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Houston Astros<\/a> will have six picks on the first day, including two in the first 28 selections. Our staff will have updates throughout the day on the Astros&#8217; picks and those of area college and high school\u00a0players.<\/p>\n<p>The first day of the draft will require viewing on multiple platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Picks 1-10: Noon CT Saturday, NBC and Peacock<br \/>Picks 11-40:\u00a01:30 p.m. Saturday, MLB Network, MLB TV and MLB.com<br \/>Picks 41-135: 3:30 p.m. Saturday, MLB.com\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For Sunday\u2019s selections, MLB.com and MLB TV will stream the proceedings beginning at 10:30 a.m. \u2014 Greg Rajan<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at the Astros&#8217; picks in this year&#8217;s draft. Houston&#8217;s total bonus pool is $13,712,700.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tomball star pitcher C.J. Sampson and Texas A&amp;M infielder Gavin Grahovac are two of the top prospects from area high schools and colleges. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/article\/mlb-draft-how-to-watch-22337910.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Click here<\/a> for more prospects to watch for.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Matthew Gomez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two-day MLB draft begins Saturday afternoon in Philadelphia, with the first four rounds Saturday before concluding with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-369589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369589","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=369589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}