Same as yesterday, today’s feature is focused on players who racked up between six and 20 BF/PA while on Houston’s big league club. Unlike yesterday, when the players were mostly of negative yield bWAR, most of today’s players totaled 0.0, literal replacement level. The final entrant in today’s article actually finished with positive bWAR, as will most of the players in tomorrow’s story.
915. RHP Rafael Montalvo, from Rio Piedras, PR, started his professional career in 1980, at the age of 16 with the Rookie-level Lethbridge Dodgers. Five years later, LA traded him (with PTBNL German Rivera) for Enos Cabell (number 72 on our countdown, but we’ll get to him in Chapter 92).