Astros Farm Report: 6-9

Bringing you the latest news from down on the farm ...

In case you missed it, Dustin pulled together all of the twitter info for the new draft picks. I will update the transaction info as each player officially signs.

ROSTER MOVES/TRANSACTIONS

Here are the latest roster moves. An ongoing list of all of the 2019 season transactions and roster moves can be found here.

6-9: OF Yordan Alvarez expected to be called up to Houston today
6-8: OF Ronnie Dawson (Corpus Christi) activated from the IL
6-8: C Lorenzo Quintana (Round Rock) placed on the 7-day IL
6-8: C Cesar Salazar (Quad Cities) activated from the IL
6-7: LHP Cionel Perez recalled to Houston from Round Rock
6-7: RHP Brady Rodgers optioned to Round Rock
6-6: RHP Dean Deetz (Round Rock) placed on the 7-day IL
6-6: C Oscar Campos assigned to Round Rock from Quad Cities
6-6: 2B Alfredo Angarita (Corpus Christi) placed on the 7-day IL
6-6: RHP Yohan Ramirez assigned to Corpus Christi from Fayetteville
6-6: RHP Enoli Paredes assigned to Corpus Christi from Fayetteville
6-6: RHP Luis Garcia assigned to Fayetteville from Quad Cities
6-6: RHP Austin Hansen assigned to Fayetteville from Quad Cities
6-6: LHP Jonathan Bermudez assigned to Quad Cities from Corpus Christi
6-6: RHP Hunter Martin assigned to Quad Cities from Corpus Christi
6-6: RHP Miguel Figueroa assigned to Tri-City from Corpus Christi
6-5: RHP Tommy DeJuneas assigned to Corpus Christi from Fayetteville
6-4: LHP Reymin Guduan recalled to Houston from Round Rock
6-4: RHP Justin Ferrell assigned to Round Rock from Corpus Christi
6-4: RHP Corbin Martin optioned to Round Rock
6-4: OF Chandler Taylor (Fayetteville) activated from the IL
6-3: RHP Gabriel Valdez (Round Rock) placed on the 7-day IL
6-3: RHP Humberto Castellanos assigned to Quad Cities from Round Rock
6-2: OF Bryan de la Cruz (Fayetteville) activated from the IL
6-2: RHP Jacob Billingsley (Fayetteville) activated from the IL
6-2: C Alejandro Flores (Fayetteville) placed on the 7-day IL
6-1: OF Ronnie Dawson (Corpus Christi) placed on the 7-day IL
6-1: RHP Willy Collado assigned to Corpus Christi from Fayetteville
6-1: RHP Hector Martinez assigned to Corpus Christi from extended spring training
6-1: C Cesar Salazar (Quad Cities) placed on the 7-day IL
6-1: LHP Julio Robaina assigned to Quad Cities from extended spring training

Players who started the 2019 season on the DL

C Ruben Castro - activated 5-25
RHP Nick Hernandez - activated 5-8
RHP Alex House
OF Alex McKenna - activated 4-29; back and forth since
RHP Hansel Paulino
RHP Erasmo Pinales - activated 5-20; back on 5-24
RHP Abdiel Saldana
RHP Kyle Serrano
RHP Jairo Solis

Restricted List
RHP Francis Martes (80-game suspension)
1B/OF J.J. Matijevic (50-game suspension)

2019 STANDINGS

Up and down arrows denote an increase or decrease in win percentage over the last week.

AAA ROUND ROCK (Pacific Coast League/American Southern Division)

🠉 2nd 38-24 .613 0.5GB W4

AA CORPUS CHRISTI (Texas League/South Division)

🠋 3rd 31-30 .508 0.5GB W1

ADV A FAYETTEVILLE (Carolina League/Southern Division)

🠋 4th 26-35 .426 17.5GB L2

LOW A QUAD CITIES (Midwest League/Western Division)

🠋 1st 38-20 .655 -.-GB W3

DOMINICAN SUMMER LEAGUE (Northwest Division)
T1st 5-2 .714 -.-GB L1

WATCH THIS SPACE

I plan to use "this space" to feature players who are currently flying below the radar, but who deserve a look.

Colin McKee - April 2019
Photo by Jayne Hansen

Drafted in the 18th round out of Mercyhurst College (PA) in 2016, RHP Colin McKee is on a nice roll in his position as late inning relief for the Corpus Christi Hooks this season. Through 17 appearances, McKee is 2-1 with five saves, a 1.59 ERA, a 1.059 WHIP and is holding batters to a .135 average. He has allowed only one earned run since April 28th and ZERO earned runs in his last eight outings. Watch this space ...

FORMER ASTRO UPDATE

Ryne Birk - September 2018

Photo by Jayne Hansen

2B Ryne Birk was drafted by the Astros in the 13th round in 2016 out of Texas A&M and spent four seasons in the system. After being released out of Spring Training in 2019, Birk hooked up with the Rockland Boulders (Pomona, NY) in the independent league Canadian-American Association. Through his first 18 games, Birk is hitting .386/.470/.614/1.084 with five doubles, one triple, two home runs and nine walks to 11 strikeouts.

RANDOM PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Athens, Greece - 2005

Photo by Jayne Hansen