Highest remaining draft pick in the system by year: 2017: Jake Meyers (13th round) 2018: Jeremy Pena (3rd) 2019: Hunter Brown (5th) 2020: Alex Santos II (2nd) 2021: Spencer Arrighetti (6th) 2022: Andrew Taylor (2nd) 2023: Brice Matthews (1st) 2024: Walker Janek (1st) 2025: Xavier Neyens (1st)
Powell is the type of prospect who could come out with an absolute monster first half in Asheville and look like a future superstar (like Jon Gaston’s 2009 season) then immediately completely flame out in AA.
I’d put huge money on that not happening. They already moved him off of SS and into the corner OF.this spring.
https://www.mlb.com/astros/news/kevin-alvarez-ethan-frey-xavier-neyens-astros-prospects-to-watch A few throw away quotes from the farm director. It’ll be very interesting to see if they send Neyens and Alvarez to Fayetteville to start the season. Holy being sent to Corpus would be a really good sign for him.
In hindsight, Click was a worst GM than we originally thought. No wonder why he hasn’t gotten another GM job. the best thing he did was to get Diaz. The worst thing he did was trade Abreu for a half season of rental catcher that Dusty seldom played.
