{"id":692298,"date":"2026-06-08T21:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/692298\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T21:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:31:13","slug":"report-astros-to-place-allen-on-il-recall-whitcomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/692298\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Astros to Place Allen on IL, Recall Whitcomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">According to Brian McTaggart of MLB.com, the Astros are preparing to place IF Nick Allen on the IL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The slick-fielding Allen is batting .262 this season with a .304 OBP and .648 OPS. He had seen more duty of late with IF <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/11729\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Braden Shewmake;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Braden Shewmake&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Braden Shewmake<\/a> and 2B <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/8996\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jose Altuve;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Jose Altuve&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jose Altuve<\/a> both on IL recently. Altuve rejoined the lineup 3 days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Whitcomb, 27, put up strong seasons at Triple-A Sugar Land the past 2 seasons but has struggled this year, batting just .231 with a .266 OBP and .646 OPS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Across 331 games at Triple-A, Whitcomb is a .260 hitter with a .337 OBP and .819 OPS with 77 HR and 60 SB.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Whitcomb has never fared well at the MLB level although he has never really been given any kind of consistent opportunity either. Across 3 seasons, Whitcomb only has 90 AB across 54 G with the Astros. Whitcomb has batted .167 with a .219 OBP and .485 OPS with 2 HR and 10 RBI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Whitcomb will likely serve as emergency insurance, with <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/62798\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Brice Matthews;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Brice Matthews&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brice Matthews<\/a> filling in at 2B if Altuve should be unavailable or need a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Brian McTaggart of MLB.com, the Astros are preparing to place IF Nick Allen on the IL.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[211900,39189,40895,373,10601,363,136767,56198,2240,255135,99],"class_list":["post-692298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-braden-shewmake","tag-brian-mctaggart","tag-brice-matthews","tag-houston-astros","tag-jose-altuve","tag-mlb","tag-nick-allen","tag-ops","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-shay-whitcomb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}