Is a pity what is going on with Cosart, he had great stuff but struggling in the majors, and not doing that good at Triple A.
No peds. Read a interview article while back colby spent entire off season riding bikes and getting in shape. He claims he's lost over 20 pounds and has more mental sharpness. Not everyone who has a good year is on peds.
Colby Lewis personifies the luck the Rangers have gotten. We hit tons of hard balls against Colby last time that were caught. His xFIP and SIERA are the highest in his Rangers career.
How could we have just let Erik Kratz go for nothing?!? He hit a game-winning dinger off MadBum, for god's sake!
On a more serious note, Brady Aiken made his pro debut today... http://www.milb.com/news/article.js...d=185327880&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb I guess he never signed so he's not technically a former Astro, but I figured some here might be interested in seeing how he does.
The elbow issue became real the following spring... I guess it wasn't "real" when the Astros' doctors diagnosed it.
FWIW, Jacob Nix has been putting up great numbers in the Midwest League (A). Mac Marshall (the other guy we would have got if Aiken accepted our lower offer) has been terrible.
Well, they never diagnosed a tear in his UCL that would require surgery... they merely judged that if a surgery was eventually needed after a possible injury, that it would be difficult. So yeah, it wasn't a real issue... just a possible one... till he actually suffered an injury the following year (after being a first round pick again). He was pitching at an elite level just prior to the draft to warrant being picked #1... lets see if they were able to reconstruct him to be just as good.
Spoiler <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Mengden has 21 strikeouts in his first 18 Major League innings.</p>— Jane Lee (@JaneMLB) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaneMLB/status/745728351298412544">June 22, 2016</a></blockquote> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Mengden 6IP, 3R, 7H and career high 9K's. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Athletics?src=hash">#Athletics</a></p>— Jen Rainwater (@Baseball_Jen) <a href="https://twitter.com/Baseball_Jen/status/745731195762139136">June 22, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Another good start by Mengden, 9 K's, 6 innings. Three-run rally avoidable with clean D by Crisp and Mengden himself. Threw 108 pitches.</p>— John Shea (@JohnSheaHey) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnSheaHey/status/745731050827972612">June 22, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I really wish Aiken only the best, although I'm sure we won't hear the end of it if he lives up to his hype. Having said that, the way that was covered still pisses me off. It was 2 years ago and kicking the Astros was a favorite hobby of the media. The way they portrayed that as the cheap Astros trying to rob a kid of money, and nothing more was infuriating. Never mind the 2 other kids we were trying to give that money to, or the slot system. The Astros are cheap and trying to pocket money because Aiken would have made all of that money on the open market. I'm getting agitated just typing it.
