After trying to avoid surgery by rehabbing and taking injections, Kent Emanuel couldn’t deal with the pain any longer.
Kent Emanuel was drafted by the Houston Astros in the 2013 Draft in the 3rd round with a lot of promise. However, he did not make his major league debut until the 2021 season as he watched many younger pitchers leapfrog him to the big leagues. Before the COVID-19 shortened 60 game season, Emanuel was suspended for testing positive for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, which is a performance-enhancing substance that he denies using to this day.
He was suspended for 80 games, so as soon as that suspension was over, he was called up by the Astros, and he asked to wear number 0.