Astros Farm Report: 6-19

Lots of birthdays, lots of roster moves and a former Astros farmhand update in today's report ...

WISHING A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO

6-19: C Tyler Heineman (25)
6-19: LHP Sebastian Kessay (23)
6-19: LHP Cristhopher Santamaria (20)
6-21: OF Alejandro Garcia (25)
6-21: LHP Saul Martinez (21)
6-21: RHP Colin McKee (22) - 18th round draft pick
6-22: RHP Cesar Rosado (20)
6-22: 1B Troy Sieber (21) - 24th round draft pick
6-23: RHP Robert Corniel (21)
6-24: 2B Brooks Marlow (23)
6-25: RHP Juan Lopez (19)
6-26: RHP Ryan Thompson (24)

Birthday Boy Tyler Heineman - June 2016

Photo by Jayne Hansen

TRANSACTIONS/ROSTER MOVES

6-18: OF Ronnie Dawson assigned to Tri-City (2016 2nd round pick)
6-18: 3B Michael Garcia assigned to the DSL Astros Blue team
6-17: 1B Tyler White optioned from Houston to Fresno
6-17: LHP Chris Cotton placed on the Fresno 7-day DL
6-17: IF Mott Hyde activated from the Corpus Christi DL
6-17: OF Danry Vasquez activated from the Corpus Christi DL
6-17: IF Marcos Almonte assigned from Greeneville to Tri-City
6-17: OF Brauly Mejia assigned from Greeneville to Tri-City
6-17: LHP Ben Smith assigned from Greeneville to Tri-City
6-17: RHP Carlos Sierra assigned to Tri-City (offseason Cuban signing)
6-17: OF/1B Carmen Benedetti assigned to Tri-City (2016 12th round pick as a LHP)
6-17: 1B Taylor Jones assigned to Tri-City (2016 19th round pick)
6-17: 3B Randy Cesar assigned to Tri-City from Greeneville
6-17: LHP Framber Valdez assigned to Tri-City from the DSL
6-17: C Chuckie Robinson assigned to Tri-City (2016 21st round pick)
6-17: RHP Nick Hernandez assigned to Tri-City (2016 8th round pick)
6-17: LHP Brett Adcock assigned to Tri-City (2016 4th round pick)
6-17: SS Alexander de Goti assigned to Tri-City (2016 15th round pick)
6-17: RHP Hector Perez assigned to Tri-City from Greeneville
6-17: RHP Ricardo Castro assigned to Tri-City from ext. Spring Training (with DSL in 2015)
6-17: OF Luis Payano assigned from Greeneville to Tri-City
6-17: RHP Enrique Chavez assigned to Tri-City (DSL, GCL & Lancaster in 2015)
6-17: OF Stephen Wrenn assigned to Tri-City (2016 6th round pick)
6-17: LHP Ryan Hartman assigned to Tri-City (2016 9th round pick)
6-17: RHP Akeem Bostick assigned from Lancaster to Tri-City
6-17: LHP Austin Nicely assigned to Tri-City from ext. Spring Training
6-17: LHP Sebastian Kessay assigned to Tri-City from Quad Cities
6-17: RHP Erasmo Pinales assigned to Tri-City from Greeneville
6-17: RHP Dustin Hunt assigned to Tri-City (2016 10th round pick)
6-17: RHP Dylan James assigned to Tri-City from Greeneville
6-17: LHP Luis Ramirez assigned to Tri-City from ext. Spring Training (GCL & GRN in 2015)
6-17: RHP Josue Uribe assigned to Tri-City from GCL
6-17: C Jake Rogers assigned to Tri-City (2016 3rd round pick)
6-16: 2B Jose Fernandez (Lancaster) released
6-16: C Marlon Avea assigned from Tri-City to Quad Cities
6-14: RHP Ronel Blanco activated from the DSL retricted list

In addition, these signings are on the "official" MLB transaction page, but these players have not officially been assigned to a team yet.

6-16: 3B Brody Westmoreland (2016 30th round pick out of College of Southern Nevada)
6-15: RHP Devin Rafferty - NDFA out of Nova Southeastern
6-15: RHP Reggie Johnson - NDFA out of Hampden-Sydney College (VA)
6-15: LHP Howie Brey (2016 31st round pick out of Rutgers)
6-15: LHP Devon Carr - NDFA out of Florida Atlantic

None of the pitchers from the 2016 draft have pitched yet for Tri-City, but several of the position players have. Here is what they've done through their first two games (SPOILER ALERT: They've been prettay, prettay good in this teeny-tiny sample size).

Want to know more about some of the Latin players assigned to the Tri-City team? The 2016 Houston Farm System Handbook has profiles on Brauly Mejia, Marcos Almonte, Randy Cesar, Hector Perez, Erasmo Pinales, Enrique Chavez and more!!!

RANDOM FORMER ASTROS UPDATE

I'm going to start checking in on a former Astros farmhand (and/or major leaguer) and see what they're up to. Today, let's see how Astros 2013 26th round draft pick Austin Chrismon is doing these days. After being released by the Astros in March of this year, Chrismon wasted no time in getting picked up by the Ottawa Champions in the Canadian-American Independent League. Austin has had nice success with the Champions and currently has a 2-2 record in six starts and sports a 2.00 ERA and a 1.250 WHIP in 36 innings of work.