{"id":533625,"date":"2026-03-11T16:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/533625\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T16:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:13:08","slug":"astros-closer-josh-hader-to-open-season-on-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/533625\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros closer Josh Hader to open season on injured list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"00a3015f-09ec-1b03-52af-656f5e0a18d5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/hou\/houston-astros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Astros<\/a> closer <a data-player-guid=\"5fda622f-acfd-2831-a36b-6da82e8e798a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32760\/josh-hader\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Hader<\/a>, who has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/47920791\/astros-closer-hader-playing-catch-offseason-injury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dealing with biceps inflammation<\/a> throughout spring training, will open the season on the injured list, manager Joe Espada said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Espada said Hader, who turns 32 in April, threw his first bullpen session of spring training on Tuesday, felt good and is scheduled to throw again a few more times before facing live hitters.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think today how he came in and how he felt yesterday throwing is a good indication that we are going in the right direction and that&#8217;s all we are looking for right now,&#8221; Espada told reporters Wednesday in West Palm Beach, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Hader, who missed the end of last season with a shoulder capsule strain, was 6-2 with 28 saves and a 2.05 ERA in 48 appearances for the Astros last season.<\/p>\n<p>Espada said <a data-player-guid=\"56d866f6-c109-5cd3-87f4-41a069536a35\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41208\/bryan-abreu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryan Abreu<\/a>, who had seven saves last season, will likely serve as the closer until Hader returns.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Astros closer Josh Hader, who has been dealing with biceps inflammation throughout spring training, will open the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-533625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}