It’s been a while since I wrote my last post on the Astros Double-A affiliate, the Corpus Christ Hooks. A whole five weeks ago, in fact. Needless to say, a lot of moving and shaking has occurred within the Astros organization since that point, especially in the farm system.
Seriously though, when I wrote my last Who’s Hot and Who’s Not for the Hooks, I wrote about a young 21-year-old right-handed pitcher that not many seemed to care about named Lance McCullers.
In that piece, I said, “McCullers’s start looks like a guy who is hungry to pitch in the major leagues.