Astros Minor League Teams: How Old Are They?

I often find myself following rabbit trails that end with my accumulation of random information that I find interesting. Such was the case with the average player age on the Astros full season minor league teams. I started looking at this last week in conjunction with my Season Preview of the Lancaster team because I quickly realized just how young the JetHawks players were. So I looked at the rest of the teams as well. The findings were interesting to me, but your mileage may vary.

As a side note, in order to compile these averages, I took all of the players who were on the opening day roster for a team, even if they were on the DL or the temporary inactive list. I did not include those who were on the preliminary rosters released by the team if they didn't appear on the the opening day roster.

These were the average ages AS OF APRIL 3, 2014 which was the minor league opening day. There may be some variance for rounding errors and accounting for Leap Days, but the information should generally be accurate within a day or so.

OKLAHOMA CITY

PITCHERS
Average Age - 26 years, 6 months, 24 days
Youngest - Mike Foltynewicz at 22 years, 5 months, 27 days
Oldest - Raul Valdes at 36 years, 4 months, 7 days
Closest to Average - David Martinez at 26 years, 7 months, 30 days

Younger than the Average Age:
Jake Buchanan
Jose Cisnero
Paul Clemens
Bobby Doran
Mike Foltynewicz
Collin McHugh
Rudy Owens
Jason Stoffel
Nick Tropeano
Patrick Urckfitz

POSITION PLAYERS
Average Age - 24 years, 8 months, 20 days
Youngest - Ronny Torreyes at 21 years, 7 months, 1 day
Oldest - Gregorio Petit at 29 years, 3 months, 24 days
Closest to Average Age - George Springer at 24 years, 6 months, 15 days

Younger than the Average Age:
Jonathan Meyer
Carlos Perez
Domingo Santana
Jon Singleton
Ruben Sosa
George Springer
Max Stassi
Ronny Torreyes

CORPUS CHRISTI

PITCHERS
Average Age - 24 years, 6 months, 17 days
Youngest - Travis Ballew at 22 years, 11 months, 2 days
Oldest - Alex Sogard at 26 years, 8 months, 9 days
Closest to Average Age - Ross Season at 24 years, 6 months, 16 days (1 day younger than average)

Younger than Average Age:
Travis Ballew
Colton Cain
Luis Cruz
Matt Heidenreich
Brady Rodgers
David Rollins
Ross Season
Aaron West

POSITION PLAYERS
Average Age - 23 years, 6 months, 26 days
Youngest - Delino DeShields at 21 years, 7 months, 18 days
Oldest - Chris Epps at 25 years, 3 months, 24 days
Closest to Average Age - Jio Mier at 23 years, 7 months, 8 days

Younger than Average Age:
Andrew Aplin
Delino DeShields
Nolan Fontana
Tyler Heineman
Kike Hernandez

LANCASTER

PITCHERS
Average Age - 22 years, 7 months, 27 days
Youngest - Josh Hader at 19 years, 11 months, 27 days
Oldest - Mike Hauschild at 24 years, 2 months, 12 days
Closest to Average Age - Mark Appel at 22 years, 8 months, 19 days

Younger than Average Age:
Josh Hader
Lance McCullers
Kyle Smith
Vince Velasquez

POSITION PLAYERS
Average Age - 22 years, 2 months, 5 days
Youngest - Carlos Correa at 19 years, 6 months, 12 days
Oldest - Justin Gominsky at 24 years, 7 months, 8 days
Closest to Average Age - Jake Rodriguez at 22 years, 2 months, 10 days

Younger than Average Age:
Carlos Correa
Teoscar Hernandez
Roberto Pena
Rio Ruiz
Danry Vasquez

QUAD CITIES

PITCHERS
Average Age - 22 years, 3 months, 13 days
Youngest - Michael Feliz at 20 years, 9 months, 6 days
Oldest - Zach Morton at 23 years, 8 months, 22 days
Closest to Average Age - Andrew Thurman at 22 years, 3 months, 24 days (Gonzalo Sanudo is also close at only 17 days younger than average)

Younger than Average Age:
Kent Emanuel
Michael Feliz
Evan Grills
Jandel Gustave
Adrian Houser
Chris Lee
Gonzalo Sanudo

POSITION PLAYERS
Average Age - 22 years, 5 months, 29 days
Youngest - Brett Phillips at 19 years, 10 months, 4 days
Oldest - Jack Mayfield at 23 years, 6 months, 4 days
Closest to Average Age - Tanner Mathis at 22 years, 9 months, 7 days

Younger than Average Age:
Conrad Gregor
Brian Holberton
Chase McDonald
Brett Phillips
James Ramsay

Oklahoma City pitchers are approximately 2 years older than Corpus Christi pitchers who are approximately 1 year, 11 months older than Lancaster pitchers who are only about 4 months older than Quad Cities pitchers.

Oklahoma City position players are approximately 1 year, 2 months older than Corpus Christi position players who are approximately 1 year, 4 months older than Lancaster position players who are about three months YOUNGER than Quad Cities position players.