{"id":361274,"date":"2026-07-04T19:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/361274\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T19:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:49:09","slug":"houston-astros-send-jake-meyers-to-triple-a-amid-outfield-shakeup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/361274\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Astros send Jake Meyers to Triple-A amid outfield shakeup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Houston Astros<\/a> shook up their outfield mix Saturday, optioning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/article\/jake-meyers-center-field-trade-rumors-21356770.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Jake Meyers<\/a> and Joey Loperfido to Triple-A Sugar Land to Triple-A before their game against the Rays.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LaMonte Wade Jr. was reinstated from the injured list and Zach Dezenzo was recalled from Triple-A in corresponding roster moves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meyers has been the Astros\u2019 primary center fielder when healthy for several seasons but entered Saturday with a .580 OPS this season, part of an Astros outfield that has underwhelmed offensively as a group.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brice Matthews and Taylor Trammell figure to see time in center field. The two had combined to start seven of Houston\u2019s last 10 games in center field prior to Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Loperfido, the Astros\u2019 opening day left fielder, has a .647 OPS in the majors this season. He was optioned to Triple-A when the Astros initially signed Wade, then recalled after Wade injured his hamstring in his fourth game with Houston.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Astros shook up their outfield mix Saturday, optioning Jake Meyers and Joey Loperfido to Triple-A Sugar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-361274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}