Forrest Whitley is going into his last season with minor league options so move and his performance are critical.
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Sunday’s carried a completely different tenor. A day earlier, Whitley made perhaps his most encouraging appearance in a major league spring training game. His four-seam fastball touched 96 mph on the stadium radar gun and his sinker generated so much weak contact. Whitley smiled and seemed pleased afterward.
Optioning Whitley on Sunday will allow the Astros to build his pitch count in minor league camp. Houston also sent its two other depth starters — Shawn Dubin and J.P. France — to minor league camp on Sunday, too, for the same purpose. Whitley made three Grapefruit League appearances: two starts and one out of the bullpen. He tossed 92 pitches during the two starts. Sixty-two were strikes, fulfilling Whitley’s one spring training goal to “fill up the zone.”
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