This evaluation by Fangraphs of today’s Astros starter, Brandon Bielak, may go down as one of the most laughable understatements of all time.
“Bielak’s command of a vanilla five-pitch mix should still fit toward the back of a rotation eventually.”
We all thought when the season started that Hunter Brown was going to be the Astros perennial candidate for Rookie of the Year. And yet it is Bielak who has the better than league-average ERA of 3.79 going into this game, and Hunter Brown who sports a 4.28 ERA— and it’s rising like a helium balloon.