Astros get encouraging news on All-Star slugger

The Houston Astros person been 1 of Major League Baseball’s champion offenses this season, and it could get moreover amended sooner alternatively than later.

Prior to Sunday’s matchup pinch nan Texas Rangers, Astros GM Dana Brown provided an update connected All-Star slugger Yordan Alvarez, who has been retired since early-May pinch a manus fracture.

Per Chandler Rome of The Athletic, Alvarez will beryllium re-evaluated later this week. From there, nan squad will find nan adjacent steps.

“Once that's over, nan expert could perchance clear him to commencement swinging a bat,” Brown said, per Rome.

Houston has survived missing 1 of their top-flight powerfulness hitters acknowledgment to beardown campaigns from Jeremy Pena, Isaac Paredes, Jose Altuve, and rookie Cam Smith, adding Alvarez will only make nan lineup moreover deeper.

Prior to nan injury, Alvarez had struggled astatine nan plate, batting conscionable .210 pinch 3 location runs and a .646 OPS. The dream is that now, pinch Alvarez healthy, he tin get backmost to his All-Star form.