{"id":632262,"date":"2026-03-19T19:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T19:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/632262\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T19:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T19:36:23","slug":"astros-bennett-sousa-will-open-season-on-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/632262\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros&#8217; Bennett Sousa: Will open season on IL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773938665_387_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/HOU\/houston-astros\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/320.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Manager Joe Espada announced Thursday that <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/2837541\/sousa\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sousa<\/a> will begin the regular season on the 15-day injured list due to a left oblique injury, Matt Kawahara of the Houston Chronicle reports.<\/p>\n<p>Sousa injured his oblique during his last Grapefruit League appearance on a fielding play. It&#8217;s another blow to the Houston bullpen, as Sousa will join closer Josh Hader (biceps) on the injured list to open the season. The 30-year-old Sousa pitched in 44 games out of the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/HOU\/houston-astros\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Astros<\/a> bullpen last regular season, logging a 2.84 ERA, 1.03 WHIP and 59:15 K:BB across 50.2 innings.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manager Joe Espada announced Thursday that Sousa will begin the regular season on the 15-day injured list due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,3616,28,139,54,3211,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-632262","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-bennett-sousa","11":"tag-fantasy-baseball","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-houston-astros","14":"tag-houstonastros","15":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116257529999128326","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632262","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=632262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}