Roy Oswalt

Roy Oswalt ushered in a new era of Astros baseball as the club’s first bona-fide ace to pitch inside their new ballpark in downtown Houston, Minute Maid Park. After debuting as a rookie in 2001 with a 14-3 record and a 2.73 ERA, good for a runner-up finish in the NL Rookie of the Year voting, Oswalt went on to win 143 games with a 3.24 ERA in 303 games (291 starts) in an Astros uniform. A 23rd-round pick in the 1996 draft out of Holmes Community College in Ridgeland, Miss., Oswalt ranks second in franchise history in career wins, second in strikeouts (1593), third in innings pitched (1932.1) and fifth in ERA.