Meet Astros' Only Top 100 Prospect

The Houston Astros are down to one Top 100 prospect, now that MLB.com recently re-ranked its Top 100 to mark the midway point of the regular season.

That prospect is outfielder Drew Gilbert, who came in at No. 76.

Earlier this month Baseball America had the Astros with two Top 100 players in Gilbert and catcher Yainer Diaz. But, Diaz has reached the point where he’s played enough Major League games to no longer qualify as a prospect.

Additionally pitchers like Hunter Brown and J.P. France, who started the season in the minors, are now with the Astros.

Baseball America had Gilbert ranked at No. 94.

Gilbert came to the Astros last July as their first-round pick (No. 28 overall) as a polished hitter from his time at the University of Tennessee. Due to the Vols’ postseason run and an injury, Gilbert played just a combined 10 games with the Astros’ Florida Complex League team and its Class-A affiliate in Fayetteville.

This season he started with High Class-A Asheville, where he slashed .360/.421/.686/1.107 with six home runs and 18 RBI in just 21 games before the Astros promoted him to Double-A Corpus Christi on May 9.

Gilbert’s bat has struggled with the Hooks. Through 37 games he’s slashed .202/.346/.271/.617 with two home runs and 10 RBI.