Houston Astros GM Reveals Surprising Strategy for Upcoming Season

The Houston Astros are trying to get back to the World Series again after falling short this season. Their GM Dana Brown has an interesting strategy on how to do that.

As the Houston Astros enter this offseason putting together a gameplan on how to get back to the World Series after coming up short in their title defense, their first order of business is finding a manager.

Following Dusty Baker's retirement, they'll need to name their new skipper before really getting things going in free agency.

General manager Dana Brown is unlikely to be the busiest executive this offseason as the Astros are still loaded with talent across their roster and only need some minor tweaks.

But, at the GM meetings earlier this week, he revealed an interesting strategy that Houston will employ for the upcoming season.

"I like having young players come up. I think the young players keep the energy for the older players and it's a reminder that 'Hey, we have young players coming up so we better be on top of our game,'" Brown told reporters.

Well then, expect to see some type of youth movement on the Astros' roster this season.

What type of position player and who those prospects getting called-up will be is unknown.

Houston has been considered to have one of the worst, if not the worst, pipelines in all of Major League Baseball after selling off their assets to acquire MLB players that help them win now.

When looking at their Top-30 prospects according to MLB Pipeline, the majority of their elite players are outfielders.

They already are full in the outfield, so unless they plan on trading Jake Meyers, Chas McCormick or Mauricio Dubon, it doesn't seem like the youth movement will be at that position.

Highly-touted infield prospects Brice Matthews and Zach Dezenzo aren't projected to be Major League ready until 2026 and 2025 respectively.

It's hard picturing which of the young players are going to factor into the roster during 2024. Brown will work with his front office and coaching staff to figure out a gameplan.

He wants this to be the norm for the Astros going forward after they became so veteran reliant under Baker.

"Yeah, I like young players. That's what we did in Atlanta. We signed them, we got them to the Big Leagues quick," Brown told reporters.

This is definitely a situation to monitor throughout the offseason and all the way through 2024.