As we hit the midpoint of Spring Training, here are some new developments and comments from Joe Espada on the current state of the Astros:<\/p>\n
SS Jeremy Pena is fielding grounders, but not throwing yet:<\/p>\n
RHP Jason Alexander has been optioned to minor league camp.<\/p>\n
CL Josh Hader will throw a bullpen soon.<\/p>\n
2B Brice Matthews starting in CF today, will move to 2B later in the game.<\/p>\n
RHP Sam Carlson and RHP Alimber Santa have been reassigned to minor league camp.<\/p>\n
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UT Cavan Biggio will get live BP tomorrow<\/p>\n
RHP Enyel De Los Santos will have on more bullpen session prior to a BP session Friday.<\/p>\n
Rotation next 3 days: Javier, McCullers Jr., Imai.<\/p>\n
Each of the last two seasons, a non-roster pitcher has won a spot on the Astros Opening Day roster in the bullpen and spent the year with the team. Tayler Scott in 2024, Steven Okert in 2025.<\/p>\n
Could Peter Lambert be this year\u2019s version?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As we hit the midpoint of Spring Training, here are some new developments and comments from Joe Espada…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[32172,42,5,23161,9027,2129,11192,182,139,54,3211,11838,951,5828,5918,1109,2219,4,10195,64,59147,151,9278,9277,68637],"class_list":["post-614502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-astros","tag-alimber-santa","tag-astros","tag-baseball","tag-brian-mctaggart","tag-brice-matthews","tag-cavan-biggio","tag-enyel-de-los-santos","tag-florida","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houstonastros","tag-jason-alexander","tag-javier","tag-jeremy-pena","tag-joe-espada","tag-josh-hader","tag-mccullers","tag-mlb","tag-peter-lambert","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-sam-carlson","tag-spring-training","tag-steven-okert","tag-tayler-scott","tag-west-palm-beach"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116197888244588366","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}