Posted on May 13, 2025, 9:38 pm
The Astros found themselves with an unprecedented advantage in the 2015 Draft. Because they failed to sign No. 1 overall pick Brady Aiken the year before, they received the No. 2 choice as compensation. And after posting the fourth-worst MLB record in 2014, they also garnered the No. 5 selection.
No team before or since has ever owned two of the first five picks in a single Draft. And Houston made the most of them.
The Astros parlayed those two choices into the two best players in the entire Draft: Alex Bregman at No. 2 and Kyle Tucker at No. 5. Bregman showed up at Minute Maid Park just a year later and Houston made the playoffs in each of his eight full seasons in Houston, winning two World Series and four American League pennants. Tucker arrived in 2018 and also became an integral part of, by far, the most successful run in franchise history.
https://www.mlb.com/astros/news/redrafting-the-2015-mlb-draft?t=mlb-draft-coverage