{"id":598784,"date":"2026-04-10T22:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598784\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T22:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:30:08","slug":"astros-place-righty-cristian-javier-outfielder-jake-meyers-on-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598784\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros place righty Cristian Javier, outfielder Jake Meyers on IL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/hou\/houston-astros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Astros<\/a> placed right-hander <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41261\/cristian-javier\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cristian Javier<\/a> on the 15-day injured list with a right shoulder strain and outfielder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/40719\/jake-meyers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Meyers<\/a> on the 10-day IL with an oblique strain on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Houston selected the contracts of right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/3662290\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">J.P. France<\/a> and outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/37773\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Trammell<\/a> from Triple-A Sugar Land. Houston also placed right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41829\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ronel Blanco<\/a> was transferred to the 60-day IL.<\/p>\n<p>Meyers left with lower back tightness in the middle of an at-bat in the second inning of Wednesday&#8217;s 9-1 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/col\/colorado-rockies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Rockies<\/a>. Javier was removed from the game with shoulder tightness.<\/p>\n<p>Javier is 0-1 with a 12.54 ERA in three starts this season. Meyers is batting .243 with one homer and four RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>France has not appeared in a game this season for the Astros; he went 1-0 with a 2.25 ERA in two appearances last year. Trammell played in a career-high 52 games last year and hit .197 with three homers and 12 RBIs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE &#8212; The Houston Astros placed right-hander Cristian Javier on the 15-day injured list with a right shoulder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-598784","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\/598784","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=598784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}