Just a day after confirming Yordan Alvarez was placed on the IL, Dusty Baker offered a grim update on the 2019 AL Rookie of the Year. Erik Williams-USA TODAY Sports

Astros' Yordan Alvarez 'maybe' lost for year because of bad knee?

By Zac Wassink | Last updated Aug 19, 2020 3:19 PM ET

One day after the Houston Astros confirmed that slugger Yordan Alvarez was placed on the 10-day injured list retroactive to Sunday due to what the club described as " knee discomfort ," Houston manager Dusty Baker offered a grim update on the 23-year-old.

Per Chandler Rome of the Houston Chronicle, Baker spoke of Alvarez's status during an appearance on Houston sports-talk radio station KBME 790:

“Yordan Alvarez, it looks like he’s done, maybe for the year, maybe. We’ll see.”

Alvarez missed the first several weeks of the season following a bout with the coronavirus. He hit a home run in his first at-bat of 2020 versus the Seattle Mariners last Friday but was scratched from Sunday's outing and underwent a Monday MRI that reportedly showed nothing overly alarming.

The 2019 American League Rookie of the Year hit .250 with one homer and four RBI in two contests against Seattle.

Zac Wassink

Zac Wassink is a longtime sports news writer and PFWA member who began his career in 2006 and has had his work featured on Yardbarker, MSN, Yahoo Sports and Bleacher Report. He is also a football and futbol aficionado who is probably yelling about Tottenham Hotspur at the moment and who chanted for Matt Harvey to start the ninth inning of Game 5 of the 2015 World Series at Citi Field. You can find him on X at @ZacWassink

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