Aug. 23: Houston has released Rodgers, per the MLB.com transactions list. That was the only outcome for the right-hander following yesterday’s DFA; teams are no longer permitted to make trades involving players who’ve been on the 40-man roster this season, and Rodgers was on the minor league injured list, meaning he couldn’t be placed on outright waivers.
Rodgers will now have the opportunity to explore interest from new clubs, though Houston could very well have interest in re-signing him to a minor league deal as a depth piece — particularly with several members of the current big pitching staff ticketed for free agency this winter.
Aug. 22: The Astros announced today that they have designated righty Brady Rodgers for assignment, as Chandler Rome of the Houston Chronicle was among those to tweet. That creates roster space for the surprising promotion of prospect Abraham Toro.
Soon to turn 29, Rodgers has seen limited MLB action in two of the past three seasons. The game’s best hitters have not been gentle, rocking Rodgers for 23 earned runs in his 13 1/3 innings of action. He carries an ugly 7:10 K/BB ratio in the bigs.
Rodgers, a former third-round pick out of Arizona State, raced to the upper minors upon becoming a professional and has generally succeeded there. Through 365 1/3 innings of Triple-A pitching, over parts of seven seasons, he carries a 3.67 ERA with 7.1 K/9 and 1.9 BB/9. Rodgers has at times been ranked on the back half of Houston’s top 30 prospect rankings at Baseball America, though not since undergoing Tommy John surgery in early 2017.
The Astros have a hard time getting their own drafted or internationally signed guys to turn over, almost entirely the pitchers, and it’s honestly a problem.
this is why im bothered when this is said about the Phillies, when in reality, very few teams have hugh success rates with prospects. that being said, the Astros are much better at that then most.
At the same time though, it’s easy to sign or trade for quality pitching when you develop young, offensive studs like they have. As an organization, you really just have to be good at developing one and have the dollars to sign the other…unless your home games are at Coors Field.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding the comment but Correa, Bregman, Springer, Altuve, and McCullers were all drafted or signed by Houston.
The pitchers have definitely been a problem, but they have had plenty of success with guys like Yordan Alvarez and other hitters.
besides LAD, ATL, MIA, TB, CLE, no one really has developed pitching with any regularity recently. Being good at developing pitching is pretty difficult.
Alvarez was a Dodgers prospect first though. Not that it matters too much, he spent time time in Houston’s farm.
To be fair I don’t think he ever even saw the field when he was a Dodgers prospect.
Keuchel and mccullers ring a bell.
Does Marte, Paulino, Rogers and whoever else from their rebuilding period ring a bell?
Martes and Paulino weren’t drafted or signed by the Astros. Both were acquired in trades. Nice try though.
Others drafted and/or signed by the Astros:
JD Martinez
R. Laureano
Teoscar Hernandez
Derek Fisher
Delino Deshields
Tyler White
Yuli Gurriel
Tony Kemp
Jake Rogers
Vince Velasquez
Mike Foltynewicz
Josh James
Framber Valdez
Not many are All-stars, but all have major league time, which is impressive when you see where they were drafted or how little they signed for.
How many of those guys are pitching for the Astros?
That’s not the point. The original comment was that the Astros draftees and signees don’t make it.
But…….
Laureano traded for Cy Sneed, who is currently with the Astros.
Derek Fisher traded for A. Sanchez and Biagini.
Jake Rogers traded for Verlander
Velasquez traded for Giles, who was traded for Osuna
And James and Valdez pitch for the Astros.
So, I guess you could say 7.
10 if you counted the draftees/signees that were traded for Cole, Greinke, and Presley.
Someone will pick this guy up. His minors numbers this year aren’t to bad. His downside is he’s almost 29 years old.
Now Rodgers can rejoin the “Brady Bunch” !!
Or perhaps he can get a job with good old Aaron !!
You know he could join the Royals…..We have two Bradys in our system….Singer and McConnell. we could have a Brady Bunch !
Brady and Rodgers released on the same day. Oh wait. Wrong sport. Baseball. Brady Rodgers. Who???
Weak effort
Would probably step into our rotation right now. Especially with Canning shut down.
An unwanted Astro is a wanted Blue Jay.