{"id":395753,"date":"2026-08-02T18:47:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T18:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395753\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T18:47:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T18:47:55","slug":"astros-release-right-hander-j-p-france-once-a-promising-rookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395753\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros release right-hander J.P. France, once a promising rookie"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Houston Astros<\/a> released right-hander J.P. France<\/a> from his contract at Triple-A Sugar Land this week, making the former member of their starting rotation a free agent.<\/p>\n

France, 31, made 23 starts with the Astros in his rookie season in 2023, going 11-6 with a 3.83 ERA. He began the 2024 season in their rotation but missed most of 2024 and \u201925 due to a shoulder injury that required surgery. France had spent most of this season at Triple-A Sugar Land, where he had a 3.72 ERA working as a reliever, around making three relief outings in the majors in April.<\/p>\n

The Astros designated France for assignment on April 18, meaning he was not on the 40-man roster. A 14th-round draft pick by Houston in 2018, France made at least one major-league appearance with the team in each of the last four seasons.<\/p>\n

The Astros re-signed infielder Braden Shewmake<\/a> to a minor-league deal Friday and assigned him to Triple-A Sugar Land, the team announced.<\/p>\n

Shewmake has appeared in 30 major-league games with the Astros this season, with a .256\/.272\/.423 slash line. Houston designated him for assignment on July 10 to create a roster spot for Jeremy Pe\u00f1a\u2019s return from a calf injury and traded Shewmake to the Brewers two days later for cash considerations.<\/p>\n

Shewmake played in four major-league games for Milwaukee before being designated for assignment. After clearing waivers, he elected free agency over an outright assignment to Triple-A by the Brewers. The Astros added him back into their system as familiar infield depth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Astros released right-hander J.P. France from his contract at Triple-A Sugar Land this week, making the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-395753","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\/395753","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=395753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}