Per Derrick Goold of St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Astros were one of the teams to send a scout to observe right-handed pitcher Seth Maness. The former St. Louis Cardinal reliever pitched in front of multiple scouts varying across the league as he attempts to make a comeback from a torn UCL and subsequent surgery.
Normally this wouldn’t be a story to generate much interest in February. But the fact that Maness had his surgery in August of this past year is definitely noteworthy. The surgery in question was noted by Goold’s article to be a “primary repair”.