Losing Charlie Morton hurts, on some level. Sure, there are plenty of baseball reasons to miss him. The Astros had a really great rotation in 2018, and it seems like it’s been scattered to the winds now. The 2019 pitching staff looked a little thinner even before losing him was guaranteed. I think a lot of people, myself included, had mentally assumed he would be returning to the Astros, even after they didn’t make him a qualifying offer. There seemed to be signs that he would be coming back, but it turned out to not be in the cards.
Ode to CFM: A Charlie Morton Retrospective
