Brittle Ben will show up and the Stros will have wasted a ton of money on a player that will never play enough to help the team get over the hump You mean like how he helped the 2008 Brewers 'get over the hump'? The concept that a player is or isn't 'out there when you need him' is silly, largely because "when" is completely arbitrary & basically means, 'whenever the fans think'. Brittle Ben was a below average pitcher in the second half of the season. How did he help them over the hump?? After July 29 he had 3 wins and two of those games were shutous and the third was a 12-0 win. In his other starts after this his ERA was almost 6, those are close to Suppan numbers. We all know how much of a beating Suppan takes on this website for him not being able to get it done. Sure Sheets pitched when early for the team and got them wins, but when the team started to struggle the ace was suppose to stop loosing streaks. Sheets was not doing it, and once CC was there he was suppose help put together winning streaks, this also did not happen. Injury prone is being hurt over a period time, major or non-major injuries. Paul Molitor was labeled this in his career, he always seem to get hurt and non of his injuries were major. Pauly lasted a long time as he became a DH and his body then held up.