Jon Heyman relates a story in his Stock Watch column about when Jose Altuve attended a tryout in 2006:
When he went to an Astros' tryout in Venezuela in 2006, at age 16, they sent him home the first day because of his size. (He returned the next day, they let him play and they have no regrets.)
The Tim Purpura era, ladies and gentlemen!
We didn't come out here to play tiddlywinks, son.
-Hal Smith
