Astros Farm Report: 6/18

Catching you up on the latest Astros MiLB news ...

WISHING A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO

César Rosado - July 2017

Photo by Jayne Hansen

6/18: OF Jacob Meyers (22)
6/19: RHP Collin McHugh (31)
6/19: IF José Mendoza (17)
6/21: RHP Colin McKee (24)
6/22: RHP César Rosado (22)
6/24: OF Wilyer Abreu (19)

ROSTER MOVES/TRANSACTIONS

Troy Sieber and Kristian Trompiz - July 2017

Photo by Jayne Hansen

As of this morning, 19 of the 40 draft picks for 2018 have signed according to the Astros website.

6/18: 3B Joe Perez assigned to the GCL Astros from extended spring training (2nd round pick from 2017 who had TJ surgery in 6/17 and has not yet made his professional debut)
6/18: LHP Daniel Bello assigned to the GCL Astros from extended spring training
6/18: LHP Julio Robaina assigned to the GCL Astros from extended spring training
6/18: OF Juan Ramirez assigned to the GCL Astros from extended spring training
6/17: RHP Dariel Aquino (Quad Cities) activated from the DL (on the DL since 6/1)
6/16: OF Myles Straw assigned to Fresno from Corpus Christi
6/16: OF/1B Yordan Alvarez activated from the Corpus Christi DL (on the DL since 5/16)
6/16: RHP Humberto Castellanos assigned to Tri-City from Quad Cities
6/16: RHP Devin Conn (19th round pick) signed
6/16: RHP Riley Cabral (31st round pick) signed
6/16: IF Jonathan Matute released (signed out of Venezuela in July 2013 for $215,000)
6/15: RHP Robert Corniel (Buies Creek) released (signed out of the Dominican Republic in July 2012)
6/15: IF Kristian Trompiz (Buies Creek) released (signed out of Venezuela in July 2012 for $320,000)
6/15: 2B Kyle Davis (Tri-City) released (15th round pick 2017 out of West Virginia University)
6/15: IF Ozziel Sanchez-Galan released (signed out of Panama in July 2014)
6/15: C Brandon Benavente released (signed out of Venezuela in July 2014 for $262,500)
6/15: IF Tyler White (Fresno) recalled to Houston
6/15: 2B Cody Bohanek assigned to Buies Creek from Quad Cities
6/15: OF Corey Julks assigned to Buies Creek from Quad Cities
6/14: OF Jake Meyers assigned to Buies Creek from Quad Cities
6/14: RHP Bryan Solano assigned to the GCL from the DSL
6/14: 1B Troy Sieber (Buies Creek) released (24th round 2016)
6/14: RHP Shawn Dubin (13th round pick) signed
6/14: SS Trey Dawson (15th round pick) signed
6/14: C Alex Holderbach (16th round pick) signed
6/14: SS Michael Wielansky (18th round pick) signed
6/14: OF Austin Dennis (20th round pick) signed
6/14: OF Logan Mattix (25th round pick) signed
6/13: OF Seth Beer (1st round pick) signed
6/13: SS Jeremy Pena (3rd round pick) signed
6/13: RHP Cody Deason (5th round pick) signed
6/13: C Cesar Salazar (7th round pick) signed
6/13: RHP Austin Hansen (8th round pick) signed
6/13: OF Chandler Taylor (10th round pick) signed
6/13: RHP Mark Moclair (12th round pick) signed
6/13: OF Marty Costes (22nd round pick) signed
6/13: SS David Hensley (26th round pick) signed
6/13: C Juan Paulino (27th round pick) signed
6/13: RHP Layne Henderson (30th round pick) signed
6/13: LHP Chris Nunn assigned to Fresno from Corpus Christi
6/13: C Eduardo de Oleo assigned to Corpus Christi from Fresno
6/13: RHP Jojanse Torres assigned to the DSL Astros (FA originally signed with the Brewers in 2015 and signed by the Astros 4/24; 22-year old Dominican who has never pitched professionally)
6/12: RHP Cristian Javier assigned to Buies Creek from Quad Cities

ASTROS MILB DISABLED LIST

6/7: RHP Carlos Sierra (Corpus Christi) placed on the 7-day DL
6/1: LHP Yeremi Ceballos (DSL) placed on the 60-day DL
6/1: RHP Carlos Quintero (DSL) placed on the 60-day DL
5/29: RHP Matt Ramsey (Fresno) placed on the 7-day DL
5/27: OF Carmen Benedetti (Corpus Christi) placed on the 7-day DL
5/26: RHP David Paulino (Fresno) placed on the 7-day DL (retroactive to the 25th)
5/8: RHP Kevin Hill (Corpus Christi) placed on the 7-day DL
5/4: RHP Francis Martes (Fresno) placed on the 7-day DL
5/3+/-: RHP Gerardo Bojorquez had TJ surgery per Instagram post
5/2+/-: OF Patrick Mathis out for approx. 6 weeks per Instagram post
4/26: RHP J.B. Bukauskas (Quad Cities) placed on the 7-day DL
4/5: RHP Ryan Thompson assigned to Fresno (starting the season on the 7-day DL); according to Instagram Ryan has had surgery, but I don't know whether or not it was TJ
4/5: RHP Edgardo Sandoval (Quad Cities) placed on the 7-day DL
4/5: RHP Matt Ruppenthal assigned to Quad Cities (starting the season on the 7-day DL; according to Instagram, Ruppenthal had elbow surgery to transpose the ulnar nerve in early April and started to throw mid-June)
4/5: RHP Ángel Heredia (Corpus Christi) placed on the 7-day DL
4/5: RHP Nick Hernandez (Corpus Christi) placed on the 7-day DL (Tommy John)
4/5: RHP Jose Luis Hernández (Buies Creek) placed on the 7-day DL

I will be keeping track of all the releases, retirements, trades and signings for the 2018 season here.

TWEET OF THE WEEK

Enough said pic.twitter.com/oFKqpHwC26

— QC River Bandits (@QCRiverBandits) June 17, 2018

ASTROS MILB STANDINGS
Up and down arrows represent increase/decrease in win percentage over the prior week.

FRESNO (Pacific Coast League)

🠉1st 42-27 .609 -.-GB W3

CORPUS CHRISTI (Texas League)

🠉1st 42-26 .618 -.-GB W4
The Hooks are a half game in front of the Missions with one game to go in the first half. If the Hooks beat the Missions tonight, they will win the first half and automatically advance to the playoffs at the end of the season. If they lose, the Missions will be the first half victors.

BUIES CREEK (Carolina League)

🠋2nd 37-32 .536 3.5GB L1

QUAD CITIES (Midwest League)

🠉1st 40-30 .571 -.-GB W6
A late surge from the River Bandits propelled them from 3rd place in their division a week ago to 1st place in the first half as they go into the All-Star break. Great job from the guys and first year QC Manager Mickey Storey!

TRI-CITY (New York-Penn League)
T3rd 1-2 .333 1.0GB L2

DSL ASTROS (Dominican Summer League Northwest)
🠉8th 3-10 .231 6.0GB W1

GCL ASTROS (Gulf Coast League)
Season starts TODAY!!

ASTROS MILB ALL-STARS

FRESNO

You have until June 22nd to vote for your favorite Grizzlies to make the AAA All-Star game which will take place on July 11th in Columbus, Ohio.

CORPUS CHRISTI

The Texas League All-Star game will be held June 26th in Midland. Seven Hooks players were selected to participate:

1B Taylor Jones
3B Randy Cesar
OF Myles Straw (since promoted to Fresno)
OF Josh Rojas
LHP Cionel Perez
LHP Ryan Hartman
RHP Corbin Martin
LHP Framber Valdez was subsequently added to the roster.

BUIES CREEK

The Carolina League All-Star game will be held tomorrow in Zebulon, North Carolina and Buies Creek will be sending the following players:

LHP Brett Adcock
RHP Brandon Bielak
OF Ronnie Dawson
DH Abraham Toro

QUAD CITIES

The Midwest League All-Star game will be held tomorrow in Lansing, Michigan with the following players representing Quad Cities:

LHP Patrick Sandoval
LHP Parker Mushinski
RHP Peter Solomon
RHP Yohan Ramirez
OF Bryan de la Cruz

NEWS AND LINKS

The social media post for the new draft picks has been updated to denote those players who have officially signed.

Jake Meyers was promoted to Buies Creek a day after this piece from Quad-City Times writer Steve Batterson came out.

And Mark Singelais checks in with 18th round pick Michael Wielansky, one of the newest members of the Tri-City team.

Sam Levitt does a quick Q&A with Corbin Martin.

Want to know a little more about tonight's starting pitcher and @AggieBaseball alum @martin_corbin?

His favorite food? Dream celebrity date? Favorite memory with the Aggies? Home run call if he was a broadcaster?

Corbin went "1st to 3rd" with @SammyLev: pic.twitter.com/BNSIL0Eai9

— Corpus Christi Hooks (@cchooks) June 15, 2018

And in case you missed any of these, here are my recent interviews:

OF Chas McCormick (Buies Creek, since promoted to Corpus Christi)
OF J.J. Matijevic (Buies Creek)
RHP Brandon Bielak (Buies Creek)
LHP Brett Adcock (Buies Creek)
SS Alex De Goti (Corpus Christi)
1B Taylor Jones (Corpus Christi)
RHP Brock Dykxhoorn (Corpus Christi, since promoted to Fresno)