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Cole Ragans has been one of the top two pitchers in baseball by park-adjusted ERA- and FanGraphs WAR .
Since joining Kansas City’s big-league team on July 15 , he has made nine starts, logging a 1.69 ERA across 53 1/3 innings.
Ragans sits 96.5 mph with his fastball and occasionally touches triple digits.
Cole Ragans was traded to the Royals for the hardest-throwing left-handed pitcher of all time, Aroldis Chapman .
The Rangers traded Ragans for Chapman , a bullpen mainstay the Royals desperately needed to further its postseason push.
Ragans ' velocity boost made it into games with Texas this season , but not as a starter and not to great effect.
Jacob Ragans was with the Rangers when Jacob deGrom announced he needed a second surgery.
He began his scoreless streak the day Shohei Ohtani exited due to the elbow injury that might require his second .
A first -round pick in 2016 , Ragans ’ progression toward the majors was stalled by an initial elbow injury, and resulting surgery in spring 2018 .
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