{"id":166815,"date":"2025-07-10T22:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T22:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/166815\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T22:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T22:59:09","slug":"astros-to-promote-brice-matthews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/166815\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros To Promote Brice Matthews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Astros are promoting infield prospect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=matthe000bri&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-10_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brice Matthews<\/a>, reports <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/brianmctaggart\/status\/1943441152675581974\" rel=\"nofollow\">Brian McTaggart of MLB.com<\/a>. The club is off today but he\u2019ll join them tomorrow. The Astros will need to select him to the 40-man roster and open an active roster spot.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews, 23, was the club\u2019s first-round pick two summers ago. The Astros selected him with the 28th overall pick of the 2023 draft and signed him with a bonus of just under $2.5MM. Since then, he has been crushing his way up the minor league ladder, though striking out plenty along the way.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Astros are promoting infield prospect Brice Matthews, reports Brian McTaggart of MLB.com. The club is off today&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,9027,139,54,3211,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-166815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-astros","8":"tag-astros","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-brice-matthews","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-houston-astros","13":"tag-houstonastros","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114831423229453084","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}