{"id":619890,"date":"2026-03-12T09:21:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T09:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/619890\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T09:21:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T09:21:02","slug":"astros-hader-to-begin-season-on-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/619890\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros&#8217; Hader to begin season on injured list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Astros closer Josh Hader will miss Opening Day and begin the regular season on the injured list, manager Joe Espada said Wednesday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/matthewkawahara\/status\/2031726030000476300\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Houston Chronicle&#8217;s Matt Kawahara<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hader threw a bullpen session Tuesday and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/matthewkawahara\/status\/2031420861639544915?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> he &#8220;felt really good.&#8221; But his timeline for a proper buildup will carry his recovery from biceps tendinitis past the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For me, it&#8217;s more of just seeing how my body responds on everything,&#8221; Hader said on Feb. 11 after the Astros announced he was a few weeks behind schedule in his recovery, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/josh-hader-biceps-tendinitis-2026-spring-training\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB.com&#8217;s Brian McTaggart<\/a>. &#8220;If I started setting a (timetable), I don&#8217;t want to get to the point where I&#8217;m going to be rushing it and something long-term happens, which I don&#8217;t think it will. Sometimes you&#8217;ve got to be cautious with that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old left-hander missed the final two months of the 2025 campaign with a left shoulder capsule strain. He logged a 2.05 ERA and 13.0 K\/9 with 28 saves in 52 2\/3 innings during the season.<\/p>\n<p>Houston will likely turn to Bryan Abreu in the ninth inning with Hader sidelined. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Astros closer Josh Hader will miss Opening Day and begin the regular season on the injured list,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,139,54,3211,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-619890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-astros","8":"tag-astros","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-astros","12":"tag-houstonastros","13":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116215472135160989","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619890","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=619890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}