The 2019 season has been a roller coaster for pitcher Jesus Luzardo, but it’s starting to look up again.
The left-hander opened the year as the Oakland A’s consensus top prospect, and as a Top 20 prospect in the entire sport, but a shoulder injury cost him the first two months of the season. He returned in June and looked great all the way up through Triple-A, but after a handful of outings he went down again in early July with an unrelated lat strain. In a summer that was supposed to see him make his MLB debut and boost the A’s rotation, he instead hadn’t even thrown 20 innings by the time August began.