With reports surfacing about Framber Valdez and the fractured ring finger on his pitching hand, the Astros are left in an unenviable position. Already faced with a lack of proven depth in the starting rotation, the loss of the club’s best starter in 2020 is a suboptimal development. James Click and the front office are going to have to get a bit creative to replace those innings, regardless of the duration of Valdez’s absence.
The initial recommendation for top young Astros SP Framber Valdez is for surgery to repair his fractured ring finger, and the early belief is that could mean he’d miss the 2021 season, as I just said on @MLBNetwork.