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  • Houston Texans News: Texans cut injury-prone defensive player
    • Houston Texans News: Texans cut injury-prone defensive player
    Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images Your one-stop shop for Houston Texans, local sports, and news from around the league for Friday, March 21, 2025. Houston Texans News Houston Texans Named Best Fit for Explosive WR (Sports Illustrated) Texans Cut Injury-Prone Defender After Failed Physical (House of Houston) Top 10 cap hits for Houston Texans in 2025 after free agency (Yahoo Sports) With n...2025
  • Houston Texans News: Danielle Hunter still drives same car he always has
    • Houston Texans News: Danielle Hunter still drives same car he always has
    Barry Reeger-USA TODAY Sports Your one-stop shop for Houston Texans, local sports, and news from around the league for Monday, September 2, 2024. Houston Texans News NRG Stadium guide: What to know about the Houston Texans’ home field (The Athletic) Texans Star Still Drives Same Car After Earning $90 Million (Sports Illustrated) Houston Texans Lose Case Keenum to Injury; What’s Next? (Spor...2024
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  • Royals Rumblings - News for April 18, 2024
    • Royals Rumblings - News for April 18, 2024
    Melissa Tamez-USA TODAY Sports The bats have cooled off. Salvador Perez’s game-winning home run was a bright spot in a tough week for the offense: Just three days after suffering a mild left groin strain Sunday against the Mets, Perez silenced any injury doubts by catching Game 1 and ending up the offensive hero Wednesday afternoon with his fifth homer of the season. “Big-time player doin...2024
  • • Interesting Prospect Call-Ups - April 17, 2024
    Andy Pages The Dodgers promoted their number three prospect on Tuesday. Pages has a very strong offensive resume. The 23 year old is slashing .371/.452/.694 in 15 AAA games, and while the ballpark environment he was playing in is super hitter friendly, it's an impressive statline nonetheless. His 18/11 K/BB% is really solid, but we obviously expect those numbers to take hits on both sides of the r...2024
  • Forrest Whitley debut: Astros promote former top prospect for first MLB appearance as pitching woes continue
    • Forrest Whitley debut: Astros promote former top prospect for first MLB appearance as pitching woes continue
    Whitley has faced a litany of injuries since he was drafted in 2016...2024
  • • Astros To Promote Forrest Whitley
    The Astros are recalling former top prospect Forrest Whitley for his first MLB promotion, reports Michael Schwab of the Juice Box Journal (X link). He’s already on the 40-man roster, so they’ll only need to make a corresponding active roster transaction. Whitley, now 26, took a circuitous route to the majors. He was a first-round pick…...2024

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Forrest Whitley injury and suspension

  • • Houston Texans News: Texans cut injury-prone defensive player
    2025
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  • • Royals Rumblings - News for April 18, 2024
    2024
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  • • Interesting Prospect Call-Ups - April 17, 2024
    2024
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  • • Forrest Whitley debut: Astros promote former top prospect for first MLB appearance as pitching woes continue
    2024
  • • Forrest Whitley debut: Astros promote former top prospect as pitching woes continue, per report
    2024
  • • Astros To Seek Fourth Option Season For Forrest Whitley
    It has been another injury-wrecked season for former top pitching prospect Forrest Whitley. The right-hander was diagnosed with a lat strain at the start of June, an injury that initially came with a three-plus month recovery timetable. Over the weekend, general manager Dana Brown indicated that Whitley was unlikely to return this season (link via Chandler…...2023
  • • Astros prospect Forrest Whitley to undergo Tommy John surgery, will miss 2021 season
    Whitley was considered the top pitching prospect in baseball two years ago...2021
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  • Top Astros prospect Whitley to have TJ surgery
    • Top Astros prospect Whitley to have TJ surgery
    Pitcher Forrest Whitley, the Houston Astros' top prospect, will have Tommy John surgery, manager Dusty Baker announced Wednesday....2021
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  • • Astros prospect Forrest Whitley might need Tommy John surgery after injuring elbow in spring training
    Whitley was considered the top pitching prospect in baseball two years ago...2021
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  • • Astros’ Forrest Whitley Suffering From Right UCL Sprain
    Astros pitching prospect Forrest Whitley has been advised to undergo Tommy John surgery, according to Mark Berman of KRIV Fox 26 (Twitter link).  Whitley has been battling arm soreness that has now been diagnosed as a right UCL sprain, the team told Chandler Rome of the Houston Chronicle (Twitter link) and other reporters.  No decision…...2021

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  • 2025
    "com) Astros relievers Kaleb Ort, Forrest Whitley likely to open season on IL (Houston Chronicle) Astros starter Luis Garcia shut down with another setback in Tommy John recovery (The Athletic) Number 1 seed Houston romps past Number 16 seed SIU Edwardsville 78-40 in NCAA Tournament opener (KHOU 11 CBS) Meet Houston’s lead ball boy: How a 12-year-old became part of the Cougar family (The Athletic)"

  • 2024
    "The Astros are recalling former top prospect Forrest Whitley for his first MLB promotion, reports Michael Schwab of the Juice Box Journal (X link)."

  • 2023
    "Astros minor league pitcher Forrest Whitley has been diagnosed with a lat strain and will miss between three and four months, the club announced today (relayed by Chandler Rome of the Athletic)."

  • 2022
    "Forrest Whitley is like their last big bust, and I wouldn't completely write him off yet."

  • 2021
    "Astros pitching prospect Forrest Whitley has been advised to undergo Tommy John surgery, according to Mark Berman of KRIV Fox 26 (Twitter link)."

  • 2020
    "Astros top prospects 2021: Forrest Whitley, still waiting to make big-league debut, is No. 1 for Houston"

  • 2019
    "and Forrest Whitley being called up to the big leagues."

  • 2018
    "Forrest Whitley, a right-hander who is considered one of the top pitching prospects in baseball, has been suspended for violating the minor league drug program."

  • 2017
    "The Astros viewed Forrest Whitley as one of the top high school pitchers in the 2016 Draft before selecting him with the 17th overall pick."

  • 2016
    "The Astros have signed their top overall pick from the 2016 First-Year Player Draft, 18-year-old right-hander Forrest Whitley, the team announced Wednesday."

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Forrest Whitley trade rumors, contract, salary rumors

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  • • Royals Rumblings - News for April 18, 2024
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  • • Forrest Whitley debut: Astros promote former top prospect for first MLB appearance as pitching woes continue
    2024
  • • Forrest Whitley debut: Astros promote former top prospect as pitching woes continue, per report
    2024
  • • With a franchise-high payroll, Astros may be looking to spend more
    The Astros began last season with a team-record $182M payroll, the fifth-highest mark in the league, but after falling short of their bid to repeat as World Series champs, there’s a possibility that payroll could rise even higher by the start of 2019, according to MLB.com’s Brian McTaggart. They won’t extend beyond the luxury tax mark, but Owner Jim Crane is giving the green light to inch closer t...2018
  • • Astros offered two solid pitching prospects for Paul Goldschmidt
    Speaking of first base targets, Fancred Sports’ Jon Heyman reports (Twitter link) that the Astros included pitching prospects Cionel Perez and J.B. Bukauskas in talks with the Diamondbacks about Paul Goldschmidt, before Arizona sent Goldschmidt to the Cardinals. MLB.com ranks Perez and Bukauskas 5th and 8th, respectively, in their list of the top 30 prospects in Houston’s farm system, though it co...2018
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  • • Astros’ Mike Elias reportedly favorite to be named Orioles’ GM
    The Orioles long-running search for a new baseball operations leader could be winding to a close. Bob Nightengale of USA Today tweets that “barring a sudden change of heart,” Astros assistant general manager Mike Elias will be named the new general manager in Baltimore. Elias had previously been reported to be among the top candidates in the search. Elias’ official title with Houston is “Assistant...2018
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  • • Whitley keeping ear to ground as rumors swirl
    Forrest Whitley couldn't help but hear his name being thrown around in trade rumors on Wednesday afternoon as speculation began to increase that Houston was on the verge of acquiring right-hander Gerrit Cole from Pittsburgh....2018
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  • • Mike Elias on Drafting and Developing Astros Pitchers
    In November 2014, we ran an interview with Mike Elias, who was then Houston’s director of amateur scouting. Two-plus years later, he has a new title and more responsibilities. The 34-year-old Yale University product now has the title of Assistant General Manager, Scouting and Player Development. Elias addressed several subjects in the earlier interview, but very little of the conversation was abou...2017
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Forrest Whitley parents, kids, wife / husband, girlfriend / boyfriend

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Top Forrest Whitley news

  • • Touted Astros prospect suspended 50 games
    2018
  • • Astros sign top Draft pick Whitley
    2016
  • • Astros Prospect Forrest Whitley Suspended For 50 Games
    Astros pitching prospect Forrest Whitley has been suspended for fifty games, according to Buster Olney of ESPN.com (Twitter link). The ban is drug-related, per the report, though it is not clear just what improper substance Whitley was deemed to have used. Typically, fifty-game bans are handed out for drugs of abuse or amphetamines rather than…...2018
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  • • Forrest Whitley Out 3-4 Months With Lat Strain
    Astros minor league pitcher Forrest Whitley has been diagnosed with a lat strain and will miss between three and four months, the club announced today (relayed by Chandler Rome of the Athletic). That timetable puts his 2023 campaign in jeopardy. It’s the latest brutal blow for a player who was once among the sport’s top prospects.…...2023
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  • • Astros sign 5 Draft picks, waiting on Whitley
    The Astros announced Monday night that the club signed five more players selected in last week's draft. But they're still waiting on first-round pick, pitcher Forrest Whitley....2016
  • • Astros take Texan Whitley at No. 17 in Draft
    The Astros took 6-foot-7 right-hander Forrest Whitley with the No. 17 overall pick in the 2016 Draft on Thursday. Whitley, who touches 97 mph, is from Alamo Heights High School in San Antonio....2016
  • • Whitley keeping ear to ground as rumors swirl
    2018
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  • • Astros Sign First-Rounder Forrest Whitley
    The Astros have announced the signing of first-round draft choice Forrest Whitley, via MLB.com. He’ll receive a $3.148MM bonus, per MLB.com’s Jim Callis (via Twitter). Whitley was taken 17th overall, which came with a $2,504,200 slot allocation. A high school righty hailing from Texas, Whitley was a consensus top-twenty prospect entering the draft. MLB.com had him…...2016
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Forrest Whitley fantasy rankings and news

  • • Interesting Prospect Call-Ups - April 17, 2024
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  • • Hunter Brown, 2023 Fantasy Outlook
    Monday starts the sleepers on the site. Thank forkin gawd, amiright? On Patreon, I'm starting the rankings. Holy schnikes! The best Black Friday sale ever! You're giving a discount? No, Random Italicized Voice, I'm just saying Black Friday sale because everyone else is. Ah, very cool. So, the Houston Astros got a bad rap for, uh, rapping on a trash can. I get it. Think it's pretty unfair, since ...2022
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Forrest Whitley schedule, game

  • • Houston Texans News: Texans cut injury-prone defensive player
    2025
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  • • Royals Rumblings - News for April 18, 2024
    2024
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  • • Houston Astros Top 10 Prospects for 2023 Fantasy Baseball
    Houston prospects tend to get a little extra bump up the lists from me. My first year doing these, some readers on Reddit came at me for having Jeremy Peña too high (fifth) on the list. I might never forget it: my first time getting cooked in the comments. I wasn’t familiar with the ways of Reddit yet, and to be fair to the Redditors, I wasn’t particularly adept at writing these blurbs to reflect ...2023
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  • • Hunter Brown, 2023 Fantasy Outlook
    2022
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  • • Astros prospect Forrest Whitley might need Tommy John surgery after injuring elbow in spring training
    2021
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  • • AJ Hinch: Angel Hernandez said ‘inappropriate’ and ‘unprofessional’ things
    AJ Hinch was ejected in the first inning of a spring training game on Friday and thinks the way umpire Angel Hernandez handled things was “ridiculous.” Hinch spoke after his Houston Astros beat the St Louis Cardinals 5-0 in a spring game and shared his side of what happened. The Astros manager says Hernandez admitted to him in a previous conversation that he gets four calls wrong a game. Hinch was...2019
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  • • Report: As many as 10 teams interested in J.T. Realmuto trade
    There are as many as 10 teams showing some degree of trade interest in Marlins catcher J.T. Realmuto, tweets MLB.com’s Joe Frisaro, who also notes that Miami’s lofty asking price isn’t likely to drop anytime soon. The Astros are one of the many teams in the Realmuto market, per MLB.com’s Jon Morosi (Twitter links), but to this point they’ve insisted that either outfielder Kyle Tucker or right-hand...2018
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