Houston Astros 2018 minor league awards
The Houston Astros could not repeat their 2017 World Series title in the 2018 season. Their minor league system had plenty of success, though.
As part of our continuing coverage at Call to the Pen of the minor leagues, we will be covering each organization’s top players for 2018. The coverage will go in reverse order of record. Today, we will look at the Houston Astros.
We are going to review the system’s leaders for each organization statistically, then choose one hitter and one pitcher to honor for every team. This will be primarily based on statistical performance, though some “age relative to level” could come into play, so a very impressive season from a 28-year-old in AA will rank below a nearly as impressive season from a 20-year-old at the same level.
After we review each organization’s hitter and pitcher of the year, we will close out October with Call To The Pen’s Minor League team of the year. That will lead into November starting our team top 10 prospect lists. In other words, there will be plenty of minor league content on the way at CTTP, so keep coming back for more each day this offseason!!
Houston Astros minor leagues
Many have downplayed the Houston Astros farm system over the last few years as they’ve not really had the depth of tremendous players at any one time, seemingly having one or two top players and a lot of “filler” each season. Yet, that filler seems to produce a top prospect by the end of each season, and the system continues to church useful players onto the major league roster.
Before we offer up awards on the season, let’s take a look at the system’s statistical leaders:
Organization Leaders (min. 150 PA, 50 IP)
BA: Jose Alvarez .359
OBP: Tyler White .444
SLG: Kyle Tucker .590
OPS: Tyler White 1.013
R: Myles Straw 95
H: Myles Straw 150
2B: Abraham Toro-Hernandez 35
3B: Osvaldo Duarte, Jonathan Arauz 9
HR: AJ Reed 28
RBI: AJ Reed 108
SB: Myles Straw 70
TB: Kyle Tucker 240
W: Ryan Hartman 11
G: Brendan McCurry 46
GS: Trent Thornton 22
IP: Brock Dykxhoorn, Cy Sneed 127
SV: Brendan McCurry 14
K: Josh James 171
ERA: Enoli Paredes 1.43
WHIP: Ernesto Jaquez 0.74
K/9: Bryan Abreu 14.9
K/BB: Ryan Hartman 5.50
Let’s look at the award winners…