There is now a timeline on CL Josh Hader, according to Astros GM Dana Brown:<\/p>\n
SS Jeremy Pena is not in the Opening Day lineup, but he is getting live ABs before the game in Sugar Land:<\/p>\n
More on the timeline expected for Jeremy Pena from Chandler Rome:<\/p>\n
UT Brice Matthews has clearly been coached up by Crash Davis (Kevin Costner\u2019s character in Bull Durham) and has been working on his cliches before his first Opening Day:<\/p>\n
Manager Joe Espada on how team plans to use Matthews:<\/p>\n
Dana Brown on how team will use IF Isaac Paredes:<\/p>\n
The Astros are 0-0 all time on March 26:<\/p>\n
Nothing like the sound of a little Yordan Alvarez BP:<\/p>\n
Astros manager Joe Espada on RP Christian Roa making the Opening Day roster:<\/p>\n
Espada on how he will navigate playing time in LF:<\/p>\n
Brown on the development of RF Cam Smith:<\/p>\n
Brown on extension talks with CL Bryan Abreu, SP Hunter Brown and Pena:<\/p>\n
2B Jose Altuve on Opening Day:<\/p>\n
Matt Kawahara has 10 stats for the Astros to return to the postseason:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is now a timeline on CL Josh Hader, according to Astros GM Dana Brown: SS Jeremy Pena…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,23161,9027,7618,451,45496,82594,13907,139,54,3211,1328,893,5828,5918,817,1109,4,1406,64,82595,2264],"class_list":{"0":"post-645074","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-brian-mctaggart","11":"tag-brice-matthews","12":"tag-bryan-abreu","13":"tag-cam-smith","14":"tag-christian-roa","15":"tag-dan-brown","16":"tag-dana-brown","17":"tag-houston","18":"tag-houston-astros","19":"tag-houstonastros","20":"tag-hunter-brown","21":"tag-isaac-paredes","22":"tag-jeremy-pena","23":"tag-joe-espada","24":"tag-jose-altuve","25":"tag-josh-hader","26":"tag-mlb","27":"tag-opening-day","28":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","29":"tag-sportstalk-790","30":"tag-yordan-alvarez"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116297002281865913","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645074","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=645074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645074\/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=645074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}