{"id":57756,"date":"2025-07-11T20:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T20:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/57756\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T20:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T20:31:15","slug":"astros-call-up-top-prospect-brice-matthews-for-mlb-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/57756\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros call up top prospect Brice Matthews for MLB debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">The <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/hou\/houston-astros\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Houston Astros<\/a>&#8216; top-ranked prospect will get a chance to deliver on his promise after the club called up second baseman<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4838117\/brice-matthews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brice Matthews<\/a> from Triple-A Sugar Land on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Astros have not yet announced a corresponding move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Matthews&#8217; contract was purchased from Sugar Land in advance of a three-game series at home against the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tex\/texas-rangers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Texas Rangers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Matthews&#8217; arrival in the major leagues will knock him out of Saturday&#8217;s MLB All-Star Futures Game at Atlanta after he was selected following a productive first half at Sugar Land. He batted .283 with an .876 OPS, 10 home runs and 39 RBIs in 73 games, while his 25 stolen bases are fourth in the Pacific Coast League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 23-year-old, who also has starts at shortstop and an appearance in center field this season, was the Astros&#8217; minor league player of the month in June when he batted .306 with four home runs and 16 RBIs in 25 games. That came after he hit for the cycle in a May 10 game against the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/sac\/sacramento-river-cats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sacramento River Cats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Matthews is a Houston-area native who was selected with the No. 28 overall pick in the 2023 draft out of Nebraska. He was ranked as Houston&#8217;s top prospect by MLB Pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Astros&#8216; top-ranked prospect will get a chance to deliver on his promise after the club called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":57757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[42217,5723,4345,2382,42216,1266,50,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-57756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-42217","9":"tag-espn","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-astros","12":"tag-matthews-brice","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114836503450067012","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}