Potential 2023 Draft Match - Mac Horvath, 3B, North Carolina

Oddly, there has almost been more concrete buzz about the Astros’ second pick than there has their first rounder at 28th overall. A wide range of players- usually prep infielders- have been mocked to Houston in the first, but one name seems to come up again and again when insiders hazard guesses on what they might do at 61st - UNC junior Mac Horvath. While he is wrapping up just his third year of college play, he was on the older side for his high school class and will be turning 22 just after draft day, on the 22nd of July. Older college position players have a tendency to split opinions, and the Astros, at least in the pre-Dana Brown years, have demonstrated that they more often end up on the high side, tending to pluck their preferred senior signs early in the proceedings. Within the last cycle alone, they’ve seen a 22 year old draft pick ascend rapidly in the organizational top 10 in Zach Dezenzo. Could Horvath follow in his footsteps?

…