It placed Astros fans in the unfamiliar territory of having no playoff baseball to follow, and instead, they were left wondering what went wrong. The Astros' lack of minor league depth was a huge problem in 2025In a new story for The Athletic (subscription required), beat writer Chandler Rome got some insight from Astros brass into why Houston fell short this year. And the story came back to the same theme — the Astros don’t have nearly enough minor league depth. After those two, the Astros don’t have an infield prospect with a major league ETA of 2026, per MLB Pipeline. They were buyers at the trade deadline and brought in veterans in Jesús Sánchez, Ramón Urías, and Correa while dipping into the (little) minor league depth they have.