Each season, prospects rise from obscurity to prominence.
Often, these players materialize the beginnings of a breakout in spring training and then establish themselves early in the minor league season. While it’s rarer that a player will establish himself later in the year, every so often players rise in the second half of the season and leave public prospect rankers scrambling to adjust.
Drafted in the 12th round out of Etiwanda (Calif.) HS in 2023, Huezo signed for $397,500. He made his debut in the Florida Complex League following the 2023 draft and returned to the level to begin 2024.
Selected by Houston at just 17 years old, Huezo was one of the youngest players in that high school class and was still only 18 when he returned to the Florida Complex League to begin 2024. Huezo hit just .151/.275/.303 in his first full season on the complex but did earn himself a late-season run with High-A Asheville over seven games.
It came as a bit of a surprise when Huezo returned to the FCL to begin 2025, but the return trip proved to be a wise move, as the outfielder began to more consistently get to his outlier power.
Huezo hit six home runs with a .254 isolated slugging across 43 complex league games before being promoted to Low-A Fayetteville, where he spent the final 22 games of the season. Over that time, Huezo hit .301/.363/.410 with a 26.4% strikeout rate to show well in the Carolina League, one of the minor leagues’ toughest run-scoring environments.
While swing-and-miss is still very prevalent in Huezo’s game, he did limit his strikeout rate significantly by cutting down on chase swings and improving his overall contact rate. Ultimately, however, it was the power Huezo displayed throughout his 2025 season that has placed him on the prospect map entering the offseason.
| Avg. EV | 90% EV | Max EV | Barrel% | |
| Huezo | 89 mph | 106.7 mph | 112.6 mph | 26.90% |
| MiLB Avg. | 86.7 mph | 102.8 mph | 108.5 mph | 14.30% |
| Teenager Avg. | 85 mph | 101.2 mph | 106.7 mph | 11.90% |
When it comes to getting to his power in games, very few minor leaguers or teenagers are Huezo’s peers. Though he’s currently unranked on the Astros’ Top 30 prospects list entering the offseason, Huezo is showing power over the final few months of the season that’s worth noting and is likely to jump into the middle of the Houston list heading into 2026.
Huezo is a perfect example of how prospect evaluation is a 12-month process of turning over stones. Sometimes the most exciting breakouts come…