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List of Houston Astros first-round draft picks

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List of Houston Astros first-round draft picks
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A man in a white, pinstriped baseball uniform with "ASTROS 7" on the chest and a black batting helmet stands on a base with both hands raised.
Craig Biggio (1987) is the only first-round draft pick of the Astros with over 3000 career hits.

The Houston Astros, originally called the "Colt .45s", are a Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise based in Houston, Texas. They play in the American League West division. Since the institution of Major League Baseball's Rule 4 Draft, the Astros have selected 57 players in the first round. Officially known as the "First-Year Player Draft", the Rule 4 Draft is Major League Baseball's primary mechanism for assigning amateur baseball players from high schools, colleges, and other amateur baseball clubs to its franchises. The draft order is determined based on the previous season's standings, and the team that had the worst record receives the first pick. In addition, teams which lost free agents in the previous off-season may be awarded compensatory or supplementary picks. The First-Year Player Draft is unrelated to the 1961 expansion draft in which the Astros initially filled their roster.

Of the 57 players picked in the first round by Houston, 24 have been pitchers, the most of any position; 21 of these were right-handed, while 3 were left-handed. Ten catchers were selected, while nine outfielders, nine shortstops, two first basemen, and two third basemen were taken as well. The team also selected one player at second base. Thirteen of the players came from high schools or universities in the state of California, while Texas and Tennessee follow with five and three players, respectively. They have also drafted two players from outside the United States: Carlos Correa (2012) and Ramón Castro (1994), both from Puerto Rico.

The Astros won their first World Series title in 2017 with three of their first-round picks on the World Series roster—Correa, series MVP George Springer (2011), and Alex Bregman (2015). One Astros first-round pick is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Craig Biggio (1987), who played his entire 20-season MLB career (1988–2007) with the Astros and became a member of the 3,000 hit club, was elected to the Hall in . Carlos Correa is the only Astros first-round pick to have won a Rookie of the Year award, joining Jeff Bagwell (1991, originally drafted by the Red Sox) as the two Astros to win ROY. No Astros first round pick has won a Most Valuable Player award or Cy Young Award with the team. Brad Lidge (1998) won the Comeback Player of the Year Award in 2008 with the Philadelphia Phillies, his first season after leaving the Astros.

The Astros have made 12 selections in the supplemental round of the draft. They have made the first overall selection in the draft five times; in 1976, 1992, 2012, 2013, and 2014. They have had 16 compensatory picks since the institution of the First-Year Player Draft in 1965. These additional picks are provided when a team loses a particularly valuable free agent in the prior off-season, or, more recently, if a team fails to sign a draft pick from the previous year. The Astros have failed to sign three of their first-round picks. First, pitcher Randy Scarbery (1970) did not sign though the Astros received no pick in compensation. John Burke (1991) and Brady Aiken (2014) also did not sign. The Astros were given the 37th pick of the 1992 draft and a pick in the 2015 draft in compensation for Burke and Aiken, respectively.

'22Player was a member of the Astros' 2022 championship team

Picks

A man in a black baseball jersey, cap, and white pants pitches a baseball with his left hand.
Although the Astros have drafted 23 pitchers in the first round, Billy Wagner (1993) is one of only 3 left-handed pitchers taken.
A man in a blue baseball jersey and white pants enters a right-handed batting stance.
Ramón Castro (1994) was the first player ever selected in the first round of the draft from Puerto Rican by any team.
A man in a red baseball jersey with "ASTROS" on the chest and black cap stands in a baseball dugout looking up.
Lance Berkman (1997) is one of two players drafted from an institution based in the Astros' home city of Houston.
A man in grey pants, a blue baseball jersey, and a red baseball cap with "P" on it jogs in the field.
Brad Lidge (1998) went on to win the Comeback Player of the Year award in 2008 with the Phillies, a season after leaving the Astros.
A man in red socks and a gray baseball uniform with "Arizona" on the chest stands after taking a right-handed baseball swing.
Chris Burke (2001) is the only second baseman taken by the Astros in the first round of the draft.
A closeup of the face of man with sunglasses on the bill of an orange baseball cap.
Carlos Correa (2012) was the first of three consecutive first overall picks by the Astros.
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1965ShortstopAtwater High School
(Atwater, California)
1966Right-handed pitcherWilson High School
(Portland, Oregon)
1967First basemanNorthwestern High School
(Detroit, Michigan)
1968CatcherHutchinson Technical High School
(Buffalo, New York)
1969Right-handed pitcherLincoln High School
(Ruston, Louisiana)
1970*Right-handed pitcherRoosevelt High School
(Fresno, California)
1971ShortstopArcadia High School
(Arcadia, California)12
1972OutfielderSouth Houston High School
(South Houston, Texas)
1973ShortstopLongview High School
(Longview, Texas)20
1974OutfielderCabrillo High School
(Lompoc, California)15
1975Right-handed pitcherLipscomb University
(Nashville, Tennessee)14
1976Left-handed pitcherArizona State University
(Tempe, Arizona)
1977ShortstopMontclair High School
(Montclair, California)14
1978Right-handed pitcherUniversity of Southern California
(Los Angeles, California)11
1979CatcherPunxsutawney High School
(Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania)
1980
1981
1982OutfielderGrossmont High School
(El Cajon, California)15url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?round=1&year_ID=1982&draft_type=junregtitle=1st Round of the 1982 June Draftwork=Baseball-Reference.comaccess-date=January 10, 2010archive-date=February 18, 2009archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090218224729/http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?year_ID=1982&round=1&draft_type=junregurl-status=live}}
1983CatcherOklahoma State University–Stillwater
(Stillwater, Oklahoma)
1984Right-handed pitcherChapman University
(Orange, California)17
1985OutfielderUniversity of New Haven
(West Haven, Connecticut)12
1986Right-handed pitcherHanford High School
(Hanford, California)13
1987†CatcherSeton Hall University
(South Orange, New Jersey)22url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?round=1&year_ID=1987&draft_type=junregtitle=1st Round of the 1987 June Draftwork=Baseball-Reference.comaccess-date=January 10, 2010archive-date=June 29, 2011archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629082456/http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?round=1&year_ID=1987&draft_type=junregurl-status=live}}
1988OutfielderPlainview High School
(Plainview, Texas)
1989Right-handed pitcherSalem High School
(Salem, Massachusetts)12url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?round=1&year_ID=1989&draft_type=junregtitle=1st Round of the 1989 June Draftwork=Baseball-Reference.comaccess-date=January 10, 2010archive-date=February 18, 2009archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090218224750/http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?year_ID=1989&round=1&draft_type=junregurl-status=live}}
1989Right-handed pitcherJacksonville State University
(Jacksonville, Alabama)27§
1990ShortstopEdina High School
(Edina, Minnesota)21url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?round=1&year_ID=1990&draft_type=junregtitle=1st Round of the 1990 June Draftwork=Baseball-Reference.comaccess-date=January 10, 2010archive-date=June 29, 2011archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629082704/http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?round=1&year_ID=1990&draft_type=junregurl-status=live}}
1990Right-handed pitcherUniversity of South Carolina
(Columbia, South Carolina)31§
1991*Right-handed pitcherUniversity of Florida
(Gainesville, Florida)url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?round=1&year_ID=1991&draft_type=junregtitle=1st Round of the 1991 June Draftwork=Baseball-Reference.comaccess-date=January 10, 2010archive-date=June 29, 2011archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629082740/http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?round=1&year_ID=1991&draft_type=junregurl-status=live}}
1991ShortstopSimeon Career Academy
(Chicago)29§
1991CatcherEast Hartford High School
(East Hartford, Connecticut)40§
1991Third basemanSeton Hall University
(South Orange, New Jersey)44§
1992Third basemanCalifornia State University, Fullerton
(Fullerton, California)url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?round=1&year_ID=1992&draft_type=junregtitle=1st Round of the 1992 June Draftwork=Baseball-Reference.comaccess-date=January 10, 2010archive-date=February 18, 2009archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090218225619/http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?year_ID=1992&round=1&draft_type=junregurl-status=live}}
1992Right-handed pitcherUniversity of Georgia
(Athens, Georgia)37§
1993†Left-handed pitcherFerrum College
(Ferrum, Virginia)12
1994CatcherLino Padron Rivera High School
(Vega Baia, Puerto Rico)17url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?round=1&year_ID=1994&draft_type=junregtitle=1st Round of the 1994 June Draftwork=Baseball-Reference.comaccess-date=January 10, 2010archive-date=June 29, 2011archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629051636/http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?round=1&year_ID=1994&draft_type=junregurl-status=live}}
1994Right-handed pitcherLamar High School
(Lamar, Colorado)25
1994ShortstopLouisiana State University
(Baton Rouge, Louisiana)30§
1995Right-handed pitcherArkansas High School
(Texarkana, Arkansas)22url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?round=1&year_ID=1995&draft_type=junregtitle=1st Round of the 1995 June Draftwork=Baseball-Reference.comaccess-date=January 10, 2010archive-date=February 18, 2009archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090218224800/http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?year_ID=1995&round=1&draft_type=junregurl-status=live}}
1996Right-handed pitcherUniversity of Hawaii at Mānoa
(Honolulu, Hawaii)19
1997First basemanRice University
(Houston, Texas)16url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?round=1&year_ID=1997&draft_type=junregtitle=1st Round of the 1997 June Draftwork=Baseball-Reference.comaccess-date=January 10, 2010archive-date=June 29, 2011archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629083028/http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?round=1&year_ID=1997&draft_type=junregurl-status=live}}
1998Right-handed pitcherUniversity of Notre Dame
(Notre Dame, Indiana)17url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?round=1&year_ID=1998&draft_type=junregtitle=1st Round of the 1998 June Draftwork=Baseball-Reference.comaccess-date=January 10, 2010archive-date=June 29, 2011archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629083543/http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?round=1&year_ID=1998&draft_type=junregurl-status=live}}
1998Right-handed pitcherGreen Valley High School
(Henderson, Nevada)37§
1999OutfielderUniversity of Mississippi
(Oxford, Mississippi)42§url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?round=1&year_ID=1999&draft_type=junregtitle=1st Round of the 1999 June Draftwork=Baseball-Reference.comaccess-date=January 10, 2010archive-date=June 29, 2011archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629083554/http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?round=1&year_ID=1999&draft_type=junregurl-status=live}}
2000Right-handed pitcherEl Camino College
(Torrance, California)27
2001Second basemanUniversity of Tennessee
(Knoxville, Tennessee)10
2002Right-handed pitcherNortheast Texas Community College
(Mount Pleasant, Texas)29
2003
2004
2005Left-handed pitcherTulane University
(New Orleans, Louisiana)24url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?round=1&year_ID=2005&draft_type=junregtitle=1st Round of the 2005 June Draftwork=Baseball-Reference.comaccess-date=January 10, 2010archive-date=June 29, 2011archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629083754/http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?round=1&year_ID=2005&draft_type=junregurl-status=live}}
2005OutfielderUniversity of Tennessee
(Knoxville, Tennessee)38§
2006CatcherBishop Moore High School
(Orlando, Florida)23url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?round=1&year_ID=2006&draft_type=junregtitle=1st Round of the 2006 June Draftwork=Baseball-Reference.comaccess-date=January 10, 2010archive-date=June 29, 2011archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629100632/http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?round=1&year_ID=2006&draft_type=junregurl-status=live}}
2007
2008'22CatcherStanford University
(Stanford, California)10url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?round=1&year_ID=2008&draft_type=junregtitle=1st Round of the 2008 June Draftwork=Baseball-Reference.comaccess-date=January 10, 2010archive-date=June 29, 2011archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629083817/http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?round=1&year_ID=2008&draft_type=junregurl-status=live}}
2008Right-handed pitcherHartsville High School
(Hartsville, South Carolina)38§
2009ShortstopBonita High School
(La Verne, California)21
2010OutfielderWoodward Academy
(College Park, Georgia)8url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?round=1&year_ID=2010&draft_type=junregtitle=1st Round of the 2010 June Draftwork=Baseball-Reference.comaccess-date=June 8, 2010archive-date=June 29, 2011archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629083846/http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.cgi?round=1&year_ID=2010&draft_type=junregurl-status=live}}
2010Right-handed pitcherMinooka High School
(Minooka, Illinois)19
2010CatcherUniversity of Minnesota
(Minneapolis, Minnesota)33§
2011'17OutfielderUniversity of Connecticut
(Storrs, Connecticut)11
2012'17ShortstopPuerto Rico Baseball Academy
(Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico)1
2012'17 '22Right-handed pitcherJesuit High School
(Tampa, Florida)41§
2013Right-handed pitcherStanford University
(Palo Alto, California)1
2014*Left-handed pitcherCathedral Catholic High School
(San Diego, California)1
2015'17 '22ShortstopLouisiana State University
(Baton Rouge, Louisiana)2url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?query_type=franch_year&team_ID=HOU&year_ID=2015&draft_type=junreg&title=2015 Houston Astros Picks in the June MLB Amateur Draftwork=Baseball-Reference.comaccess-date=March 15, 2016}}
2015'22OutfielderH.B. Plant High School
(Tampa, Florida)5§
2015OutfielderEagle's Landing High School
(McDonough, Georgia)37§
2016Right-handed PitcherAlamo Heights High School
(Alamo Heights, Texas)17
2017Right-handed PitcherUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(Chapel Hill, North Carolina)15
2018OutfielderClemson University
(Clemson, South Carolina)28
2019'22CatcherUniversity of California
(Berkeley, California)32
2020
2021
2022OutfielderUniversity of Tennessee
(Knoxville, Tennessee)28
2023ShortstopUniversity of Nebraska
(Lincoln, Nebraska)28
2024CatcherSam Houston State University
(Huntsville, Texas)28
2025ShortstopMount Vernon High School
(Mount Vernon, Washington)21

Footnotes

  • Through the 2012 draft, free agents were evaluated by the Elias Sports Bureau and rated "Type A", "Type B", or not compensation-eligible. If a team offered arbitration to a player but that player refused and subsequently signed with another team, the original team was able to receive additional draft picks. If a "Type A" free agent left in this way, his previous team received a supplemental pick and a compensatory pick from the team with which he signed. If a "Type B" free agent left in this way, his previous team received only a supplemental pick. However, if the free agent's last team acquired the player in a trade during the last year of his contract, it is ineligible to receive compensatory picks for that player.
  • The Astros lost their first-round pick in 1980 to the California Angels as compensation for signing free agent Nolan Ryan.
  • The Astros lost their first-round pick in 1981 to the Texas Rangers as compensation for signing free agent Dave Roberts.
  • The Astros gained a supplemental pick in 1989 for losing free agent Nolan Ryan.
  • The Astros gained a compensatory first-round pick in 1990 from the San Francisco Giants for losing free agent Kevin Bass.
  • The Astros gained a supplemental pick in 1990 for losing free agent Kevin Bass.
  • The Astros gained a supplemental pick in 1991 for losing free agent Danny Darwin.
  • The Astros gained a supplemental pick in 1991 for losing free agent Dave Smith.
  • The Astros gained a supplemental pick in 1991 for losing free agent Franklin Stubbs.
  • The Astros gained a supplemental pick in 1992 for failing to sign their 1991 first-round pick John Burke.
  • The Astros gained a compensatory first-round pick in 1994 from the San Francisco Giants for losing free agent Mark Portugal.
  • The Astros gained a supplemental pick in 1994 for losing free agent Mark Portugal.
  • The Astros gained a compensatory first-round pick in 1998 from the Colorado Rockies for losing free agent Darryl Kile.
  • The Astros gained a supplemental pick in 1998 for losing free agent Darryl Kile.
  • The Astros gained a supplemental pick in 1999 for losing free agent Randy Johnson.
  • The Astros lost their first-round pick in 2003 to the San Francisco Giants as compensation for signing free agent Jeff Kent.
  • The Astros lost their first-round pick in 2004 to the New York Yankees as compensation for signing free agent Andy Pettitte.
  • The Astros gained a supplemental pick in 2005 for losing free agent Carlos Beltrán.
  • The Astros lost their first-round pick in 2007 to the Texas Rangers as compensation for signing free agent Carlos Lee.
  • The Astros gained a supplemental pick in 2008 for losing free agent Trever Miller.
  • The Astros gained a compensatory first-round pick in 2010 from the Detroit Tigers for losing free agent José Valverde.
  • The Astros gained a supplemental pick in 2010 for losing free agent José Valverde.
  • The Astros gained a supplemental pick in 2012 for losing free agent Clint Barmes.
  • The Astros lost their first-round pick as punishment for their role in the sign stealing scandal.

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