Colorado Rockies Rundown: Everybody’s Done For The Year!

Sep 14, 2015; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Colorado Rockies relief pitcher M. Castro (46) works against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the eighth inning at Dodger Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Richard Mackson-USA TODAY Sports

Miguel Castro is done for the year

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Miguel Castro, who came over with Reyes in the Troy Tulowitzki deal, has also been officially shut down this year. Back soreness is the culprit for the tall and lanky Castro, who has registered triple digits on the radar gun, but has also struggled in his stints up in the big leagues this year.

Weiss, when revealing the news that Castro was done for the year, also said this about what he saw from the very young righthanded relief pitcher:

"“I saw a big fastball and a really good slider. I saw some changeups in his later outings that surprised me. That was a good pitch for him. I didn’t know he had it. To see him use it in games and use it effectively was encouraging.”"

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Next year will be a really big season for Miguel — imagine him doing something similar to the path Jairo Diaz has been on this year for the Rockies, or, hopefully, even slightly better.

Castro may well start the season in AAA again, but if he can show some development along the way, he should be a mainstay power arm in the back end of the Rockies’ bullpen, and — best case scenarios here, people — join Diaz, Scott Oberg, Tommy Kahnle, Adam Ottavino, hell, even Rex Brothers (remember him?) in some mythical dream power bullpen that magically gets out and is young and controllable.

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