Blue Jays' Trent Thornton aiming to show Astros what they missed out on
Posted Jun 16, 2019
Trent Thornton envisioned his major league debut with the Astros, the organization which plucked him from North Carolina with a fifth-round selection in the 2015 draft. Friends within the organization are aplenty. Most are up in the major leagues now, the consequence of the Astros' accumulation of injuries. Thornton's here, too, just in another uniform.
(Houston Chronicle)
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