DENVER — During Carlos Correa’s rehab assignment last month, infielder/outfielder Josh Rojas remembers the Houston Astros star telling the club’s Triple-A players how good they were — and how some of them might be in the majors were they in a different organization.
"It kind of stinks you're behind us, in a way," Rojas remembers Correa saying.
Rojas’ inclusion in the Zack Greinke trade on July 31 meant he no longer was trapped in an Astros organization that, he said, has "MVPs all across the board." But even Rojas seemed surprised by what came next, a feeling he conveyed while standing in the visitors’ clubhouse at Coors Field on Monday afternoon on his first day in the majors.