This might have just saved Zdurencik's job. With Hultzen, Zunino, and Walker now in the bigs they have a solid young core. No point in having that hamstring contract when they likely will be competing in 4-5 years.
Both Lewis and Harrisons careers are questionable to say the least moving forward, especially Lewis. One of them gets hurt and you're starting Ogando again, that's Tommy John within a month and a half.
C.J. had a 2.94 era in '11 while Darvish had a 2.83 this past year. There is no way of getting around it, Darvish was the smarter signing. And that same year didn't C.J. set some sort of record for most walks in a post-season?
Losing records against the Twins and White Sox didn't help. And the timing of their schedule in September has been brutal compared to Cleveland, TB and Oakland. Texas is clearly a more talented team than Cleveland on paper but we all know how much that matters.