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Astros Place Two Prospects in Latest Baseball America Top-100 Rankings

The Houston Astros are already benefiting from one of their Top-100 prospects as he's played nearly 30 games with them.

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Two Houston Astros prospects remain among the Top 100 prospects in baseball, according to a re-rank of the Top 100 by Baseball America.

Those two prospects are catcher Yainer Diaz and outfielder Drew Gilbert.

Baseball America based the re-rank on the first two months of action and reflects the performance of players around baseball, along with those prospects who may have graduated from prospect status based on service time.

Diaz, ranked No. 83, is likely to graduate soon as he’s played 32 games for the Astros since his MLB debut on Sept. 2, 2022. The Astros acquired him in a 2021 trade with Cleveland, which netted the Astros reliever Phil Maton in exchange for outfielder Myles Straw.

Diaz went from High-A Asheville to Triple-A Sugar Land in 2022 and made skipping Double-A look relatively easy, batting .306 with an .898 on-base plus slugging percentage and earning a spot in the 2022 All-Star Futures Game.

In 32 career games with Houston he’s batting .273 with three home runs and seven RBI.

Gilbert was ranked No. 94. The outfielder was the Astros’ first-round pick last summer, and he’s already with Double-A Corpus Christi, even though his first professional season ended with a dislocated right elbow with Class-A Fayetteville last August.

He started the 2023 season with High Class-A Asheville. Through Wednesday’s action Gilbert was batting .296 with seven home runs and 26 RBI. 

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Matthew Postins is an award-winning sports journalist who covers the Texas Rangers, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros for Sports Illustrated/FanNation. He also covers he Big 12 for Heartland College Sports.

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