{"id":371344,"date":"2026-07-13T17:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371344\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T17:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T17:31:11","slug":"houston-astros-mike-burrows-put-on-injured-list-with-elbow-ailment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371344\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Astros: Mike Burrows put on injured list with elbow ailment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Houston Astros<\/a> placed starter Mike Burrows on the major-league 15-day injured list due to elbow neuritis, the team announced Monday.<\/p>\n

Burrows was optioned to Triple-A Sugar Land<\/a> on July 7 but had yet to pitch there. The Astros nullified the right-hander\u2019s minor-league assignment and put him on the IL retroactive to July 7, they said.<\/p>\n

Burrows was optioned to Triple-A following a start in which he allowed 10 runs<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 seven earned\u00a0\u2014 against the Nationals. To that point, he was the only member of the Astros\u2019 season-opening rotation to spend the full season on the active roster.<\/p>\n

The start at Washington left Burrows at 94 \u2154 innings this season, nearing the 128 \u2153 innings he threw between Triple-A and the majors last year, his most in a professional season. He said afterward that he felt \u201cgood at this point\u201d physically.<\/p>\n

General manager Dana Brown said last week that sending Burrows to Triple-A was \u201cdifficult because we feel like he\u2019s a big part of our future.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has weapons, but he has to fine-tune them,\u201d Brown said last Tuesday. \u201cI know he was getting into uncharted territory in terms of (innings). He has options, we have control and we also have (rotation) options, so we felt like we should option him and let him get cleaned up and we can get him back here as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Astros did not provide further details Monday, the first day of the All-Star break, about Burrows\u2019 prognosis or recovery timeline.\u00a0Cristian Javier started Sunday\u2019s series finale at Texas<\/a> in the rotation spot vacated by Burrows.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Astros also optioned reliever Alimber Santa to Triple-A Sugar Land following Sunday\u2019s game, they announced.<\/p>\n

Santa has a 1.17 ERA in 15 \u2153 relief innings for the Astros this season. The move could open a roster spot for one of multiple Houston pitchers returning from injuries to be reinstated after the break<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Astros placed starter Mike Burrows on the major-league 15-day injured list due to elbow neuritis, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-371344","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\/371344","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=371344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}