It's really remarkable. He has over $30m in career earnings. The cynic in me says that's luck of the white boy, cuz a Venezuelan with those numbers is shipped back home after half a season. Looking at his career, he's only pitched well (ERA <4 and ERA+ >100) in one place. Milwaukee. That was also the one team that was competitive during his tenure (1st in the NL central in 2018, 2nd in 2019). Every other team, including the 2011-2013 Astros, were terrible. It raises a couple of interesting questions: - Why are the bottom feeding teams so eager to give him continual chances? - Are those teams bad because of Lyles or because that's emblematic of their FO decision-making? - Why do FO's lead by former Astros FO staff (MIL and BAL) keep signing him? i mean good for him; we all wish we could do the thing we love, be mediocre at it and make enough money to be set for life.
Even bad teams need 162 starts...he's cheap and can give you a reasonable amount of IP at a not horribly below league average level
I can kind off see the line of reasoning for each team Top prospect for us Traded to Colorado, had a good season and was only 23, downhill from there, but they wanted to give him every shot. Bounced around as a scrap heap player for a little while Was actually a league average pitcher in 2018-2019, so Rangers hoped he could replicate that for a full season and overpaid. Baltimore giving him 7 million guaranteed is the first full WTF deal he has signed
Niko not far away from being on this list. Although he would have to be picked up by another team first. Otherwise may turn into a "Where are they now?"
Japhet the Hutt, Rogelio Armenteros and Enrique Chavez also on the team. Wonder how long until a team gives Osuna a chance again.
In today's "WTF" moment of the day. Reading an MLBtraderumors article about the the Cards calling up prospect Nolan Gorman. I know its AAA, but jesus Robel Garcia is rocking a .326/.430/.737 line with 10HR in *114* PA's. This is the same Robel Garcia that hit .151/.261/.208 in 46 games with the Astros last year. EDIT* corrected the number of PA's
shows how hard the adjustment to MLB pitchers can be. That’s wild tho. Either that or MILB needs to test Robel.
