{"id":30927,"date":"2026-05-28T03:01:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T03:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/houston-astros-cristian-javier-josh-hader-near-next-steps\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T03:01:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T03:01:58","slug":"houston-astros-cristian-javier-josh-hader-near-next-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/houston-astros-cristian-javier-josh-hader-near-next-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Astros: Cristian Javier, Josh Hader near next steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>ARLINGTON\u00a0\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Houston Astros<\/a> right-hander Cristian Javier is scheduled to throw a live batting practice on Friday in a significant step in his recovery from a shoulder strain, manager Joe Espada said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>Javier\u2019s injury was the same diagnosis that landed Astros ace Hunter Brown on the injured list in the first week of April. Brown is ahead of Javier in their respective build-ups and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/article\/hunter-brown-rehab-status-22275777.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">is scheduled to make his second rehab start Friday<\/a> with Triple-A Sugar Land.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>Four members of Houston\u2019s initial five-man rotation have spent time on the injured list in the season\u2019s first two months. Lance McCullers Jr. was placed on the IL last week due to shoulder inflammation and Tatsuya Imai spent about a month on the IL due to \u201carm fatigue.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>Closer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/article\/josh-hader-return-22212522.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Josh Hader<\/a> is slated to pitch Wednesday and Thursday on his rehab assignment at Triple-A Sugar Land in potentially his final hurdle before rejoining the Astros.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>Hader has spent the full season to date on the IL returning from biceps tendinitis. General manager Dana Brown has said the Astros are targeting the first week of June for\u00a0Hader\u2019s activation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/article\/jose-altuve-swinging-bat-oblique-22277669.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Jose Altuve<\/a> is swinging a bat at \u201c75-to-80 percent\u201d in his recovery from a left oblique strain, Espada said. Altuve also ran and fielded grounders Wednesday at the Astros\u2019 complex in West Palm Beach, Fla., where he is doing his rehab work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-block-type=\"text\" data-dropcap=\"false\">\n<p>Espada said it was too soon to declare Altuve close to facing live pitching: \u201cBut I do know the fact that he\u2019s swinging, taking this many swings, groundballs and running, that\u2019s really encouraging.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON\u00a0\u2014 Houston Astros right-hander Cristian Javier is scheduled to throw a live batting practice on Friday in a significant step<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_animmysite_disable_animation":false,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.hdnux.com\/photos\/01\/65\/51\/13\/30839511\/3\/rawImage.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}