Astros Sign Their Draft Picks + Which Prospects Are Untouchable?

The Astros just a couple hours ago officially announced their signings of the draft picks.

We broke it down with Joe Doyle last week, but Kenny and I wanted to hop on here, talk about the signings a little bit, and then maybe get into a little deadline talk.

But I think the big news today, Kenny, because most of the signings have already been kind of reported either through some other media source or whatever, but the Astros officially announced they signed 20 of their 22 picks with the two that were unsigned signings.

13th-rounder Jack Beck, 15th-rounder James Tronstein, which I think we knew that one was not going to sign.

He had a pretty good commit to Vanderbilt.

Beck was the one that was a little questionable, and I was hoping the Astros could get it done.

Ultimately, they weren't.

Still super pumped about the draft class, but just what's your thoughts on that right now with the announcement of the signings today?

It's unique, Jimmy, because this was the most draft picks that we've seen since the model shifted to 20 rounds in 2021.

And you have 22 picks this year, first time having two first rounders since the Tucker and Bregman days of that draft back in 2015, right? 2015.

So, I mean, it's been over a decade now.

And I think you got to see more of this Dana Brown regime in his front office and his scouting department take probably its most, I wouldn't say aggressive, but complete approach.

You saw it last year, too.

I think a lot of it was in last year taking Jace Mitchell and Xavier Nairns, especially in the first round, but at the top of the draft and leaning on those guys to be your future prep players.

But this time around, it seemed like there was a lot of combinations of it.

Um, you, you got two college guys where you've seen the Astros really test some of these college players, even guys going back to when James click and his front office, we're still together.

The Astros like to challenge some of those guys and you're going to see that as well.

You saved money on them.

You went out and got two prep bats that you see as high upside hitters, um, with multiple tools in the field as well.

And then you can throw and run, um, I think it was more complete.

Yes, it was very unfortunate that they didn't come away with one more signing that we'll get to here in a second.

But I think altogether, it was very complete, and we got to see where they really want to move going forward if Dana Brown and a lot of these guys are retained next year.

Yeah, I think taking Logan Hughes, that was probably one of the picks that I would say in Dana Brown's tenure we can probably say is maybe one of the safer picks.

He's kind of gone underslot a little bit, not nearly as aggressive with Bryce Matthews, Walker Yannick, some of those guys.

But this year with Logan, it sounds like a knock to say he's a safe pick, but he's a safe pick because his bat is legit.