Imagine thinking you’re a WS contender and then you get cucked by our sorry team by 10 runs.
Fun to watch tonight though. We’ve now shut them down with Bartolo and Gallardo.
Aggy is not about wins or losses but about culture. And nobody embodies the aggy culture like Houston fans, which should be no surprise given the population of aggy living there.
Eddie Butler also part of the return. He’s interesting at least - he was well thought of as a prospect in the Rockies system (1st round draft pick) but was terrible in Coors and hurt often (hasn’t thrown more than 79 innings in a season at the MLB level). He had a stellar 30 K/28 BB ratio with the Cubs last year, so not ideal.
Guessing we’ll give him a chance to start and see if he’s a late bloomer, but probably a swingman/reliever.
Tocci is awful but he really should be in AA. The rangers for whatever reason want to see what he becomes in 2-3 years, but they have to keep at MLB level cause of the whole rule 5 thing.
I cant recall the last time a team purposely kept someone so bad at the MLB level just because he was a rule 5 pick. Any others?