The Astros designated righty Roberto Hernandez for assignment to open a roster spot for Jed Lowrie, tweets Brian McTaggart of MLB.com. Lowrie will start tomorrow for the Astros at third base, after recovering from May thumb surgery.
The Astros signed Hernandez to a minor league deal in February, and he made the team out of spring training. His contract was worth $2.65MM. Hernandez, 35 in August, posted a 4.36 ERA, 4.5 K/9, 2.8 BB/9, 0.96 HR/9, and 51.9% groundball rate in 84 2/3 innings, including 11 starts.
Cmon MLBTR, it’s Fausto Carmona
Fausto has been hanging around this long? He’s like LeTroy Hawkins. Someone always picks them up.
Phillies should claim him. He pitched pretty okay last year, and..
the Phillies rotation is Nola, Morgan, Williams, Harrison and Harang (who will start for the first time in over a month tomorrow, and didn’t pitch in a rehab game)
$$$
Yeah, that prorated portion of the league minimum is really a detriment.
Outside of his fantastic sophomore season, this dude has played full time for 9 seasons with a cumulative negative WAR (BR)
Jed Lowrie is almost a trade for the Astros. Astros are about to sweep the Angels, and then the Angels have to play the Dodgers…. who will run out Kershaw and Greinke in that series.