{"id":665161,"date":"2026-04-05T20:05:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T20:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/665161\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T20:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T20:05:25","slug":"can-astros-yordan-alvarez-remain-healthy-retain-early-slugging-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/665161\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Astros\u2019 Yordan Alvarez remain healthy, retain early slugging spree?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facing Boston Red Sox<\/a> starter Ranger Suarez on May 30 at Daikin Park, Yordan Alvarez connected on his second home run during the Houston Astros<\/a>\u2019 initial five regular-season games.<\/p>\n

Seeking a return to his 2022 form, the oft-injured slugger continues to work to put last season\u2019s struggles behind him. The 28-year-old native of Cuba<\/a> entered Sunday\u2019s series finale against the Athletics<\/a> at Sutter Health Park with an MLB-best 1.474 OPS.<\/p>\n

Through the opening 10 days this season, Alvarez, who posted a disappointing .430 slugging percentage in \u201825, continues to prove to be one of the league\u2019s top designated hitters.<\/p>\n

But, as always, with Alvarez, a question hovers over his early performances. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Can he remain healthy?<\/p>\n

Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez starts season healthy, productive<\/p>\n

Throughout his eight-year MLB career, Alvarez has appeared in more than 135 games only twice. Last season, the two-time All-Star endured a fractured hand and ankle sprain and dressed for 48, hitting .273 with six homers and 27 RBI.<\/p>\n

During career-best \u201822, Alvarez, a four-time 30-plus home run hitter, connected on 37 homers, placing third in AL MVP voting.<\/p>\n

For Sunday\u2019s outing, Alvarez was slotted to bat second for the AL West-leading Astros (6-3). Left-hander Jacob Lopez (0-1) was slated to start for the Athletics (2-6).<\/p>\n

With 11 hits during his opening 26 at-bats, Alvarez certainly is making an early bid for a second AL Silver Slugger honor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But the question remains: can he remain healthy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facing Boston Red Sox starter Ranger Suarez on May 30 at Daikin Park, Yordan Alvarez connected on his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,139,54,3211,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-665161","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\/116353900901097294","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665161","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=665161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}