The old baseball adage that you can never have too much pitching came to mind last week when the news broke about Houston Astros prospect Forrest Whitley.
The 23-year-old right-hander has long been considered the Astros’ top prospect and one of the top pitching prospects in all of baseball. The club’s No. 1 draft pick and the overall No. 17 selection in 2016, he sped through Houston’s lower levels and reached Double-A Corpus Christi by the end of his second season of professional ball.
He appeared in just four games at the Double-A level at the end of that 2017 season, but he turned heads in a big way, striking out 26 batters and walking only four in 14 2/3 innings.