Career
Houser was drafted by the Houston Astros in the second round of the 2011 MLB Draft out of Locust Grove High School. He made his professional debut that year with the Greeneville Astros and Gulf Coast Astros. Houser spent 2012 with Greeneville, 2013 with the Tri-City ValleyCats and 2014 with the Quad Cities River Bandits.
He started 2015 with the Lancaster JetHawks and was promoted to the Double-A Corpus Christi Hooks.
On July 30, 2015, Houser along with Brett Phillips, Domingo Santana and Josh Hader, were traded to the Milwaukee Brewers for Carlos Gómez and Mike Fiers.
