Arlington, TX (Sports Network) – The Houston Astros have placed catcher Carlos Corporan on the 7-day concussion disabled list.<\/p>\n
Corporan was hurt during the third inning of Monday’s game against Texas after being struck in the mask by a foul tip while behind the plate. In 50 games this season, he is batting .245 with seven homers and 17 RBI.<\/p>\n
The Astros have brought up top prospect Max Stassi from Double-A Corpus Christi to serve as All-Star Jason Castro’s backup. Stassi was hitting .277 with 17 homers and 60 RBI in 76 games for the Hooks.<\/p>\n
In addition, Houston also designated pitcher Wade LeBlanc for assignment and selected the contract of pitcher David Martinez from Triple-A Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n
Martinez, a 26-year-old right-hander, was a combined 14-3 with a 2.20 ERA in 28 games, including 20 starts for Oklahoma City and Corpus Christi. LeBlanc had appeared in four games for Houston after being claimed off waivers from Miami in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Arlington, TX (Sports Network) – The Houston Astros have placed catcher Carlos Corporan on the 7-day concussion disabled list. Corporan was hurt during the third inning of Monday’s game against Texas after being struck in the mask by a foul tip while behind the plate. In 50 games this season, he is batting .245 with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,43,42],"class_list":["post-3863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-astros","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}