As Framber Valdez's meltdown makes news throughout baseball circles, the Houston Astros seem desperate to quell any controversy and get back to the business of winning baseball games and staving off the Seattle Mariners and surging Texas Rangers for the AL West crown.
Valdez made waves for drilling catcher César Salazar in the chest after a sequence where the two clearly disagreed about how to attack New York Yankees center fielder Trent Grisham, who took the All-Star southpaw deep for a grand slam. The act left some around baseball appalled, with Boston Red Sox announcer Will Middlebrooks calling it an "all-time scumbag move by a teammate".