{"id":617840,"date":"2026-04-19T21:14:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617840\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T21:14:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:14:28","slug":"astros-put-loperfido-on-il-swing-minor-trade-with-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617840\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros put Loperfido on IL, swing minor trade with Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.in\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/hou\/houston-astros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Astros<\/a> placed outfielder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4297976\/joey-loperfido\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joey Loperfido<\/a> on the 10-day injured list on Sunday because of a right quad strain.<\/p>\n<p>In a corresponding move, the Astros recalled right-handed pitcher Jayden Murray from Triple-A Sugar Land.<\/p>\n<p>Loperfido suffered the injury during Friday&#8217;s 9-4 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.in\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/stl\/st-louis-cardinals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Cardinals<\/a>. He is batting .259 with six RBI in 20 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the Astros acquired infielder Braden Shewmake from the Yankees for minor league pitcher Wilmy Sanchez. Shewmake has spent the start of the season with the Yankees&#8217; Triple-A affiliate in Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8212; The Houston Astros placed outfielder Joey Loperfido on the 10-day injured list on Sunday because of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-617840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617840","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=617840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}