The Houston Astros are in a pennant hunt and at the moment, Joe Musgrove wasn’t helping their cause. This send down should help give him some breathing room to figure out a new way to attack hitters. He can treat it like a second spring training to just work on a new approach to his pitching style.
The biggest complaint about Musgrove, oddly enough, is that he throws too many strikes. In fact he’s 11th in the major leagues this year in percentage of pitches thrown for strikes, with 66.8 percent of his pitches being in the zone.