Kara McCullers <\/a>reflected on the trade in an Instagram post.<\/p>\n\u201cThe end of an era and the closing of a major chapter in our lives,\u201d she wrote. \u201c11 seasons, 2 World Championships, 2 kids and 5 dogs later \u2026 and here we are. Houston is all we have ever known in this baseball life since we were teenagers. What a blessing that is to be able to say.\u201d<\/p>\n
McCullers leaves as one of the defining players of the Astros\u2019 championship era. He was the club\u2019s longest-tenured pitcher and one of three remaining players from Houston\u2019s 2017 World Series championship team. Second baseman Jose Altuve and third baseman Carlos Correa are now the only players from that team still with the Astros.<\/p>\n
McCullers, who made his major league debut with the Astros in 2015, finished his Houston career with 154 appearances, 813\u2153 innings, 904 strikeouts, 357 walks, a 53-40 record and a 3.85 ERA.<\/p>\n
McCullers, who has battled injuries this season, spoke to reporters for the first time as a member of the Brewers before Friday\u2019s game in Milwaukee. He said he is eager to continue his recovery and eventually contribute to the Brewers\u2019 rotation.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m excited to be here,\u201d McCullers said. \u201cWith the new rules, you get to see teams more often. So, I\u2019ve played (the Brewers) the last few years. I respect the way they play.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Matthews, McCullers\u2019 legacy in Houston will be remembered less for any single performance than for the consistency with which he approached the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo matter how he was feeling, he was going out there just giving it his all,\u201d Matthews said. \u201cI think that\u2019s the type of thing that you respect, and that\u2019s what you want out of your guys. Just to see him put it all out there on the line each and every time, it was amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Astros pitchers Lance McCullers Jr. and Bryan Abreu during the Houston Astros World Series parade downtown on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-377394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}