The Astros have confirmed Yordan Alvarez will miss the remainder of the season. Erik Williams-USA TODAY Sports

Astros' Yordan Alvarez out for season, will undergo knee surgery

By Zac Wassink | Last updated Aug 19, 2020 6:09 PM ET

The 2019 American League Rookie of the Year will only play in two games this season.

Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker confirmed to reporters that slugger Yordan Alvarez will miss the rest of the year due to a partially torn patella tendon. Alvarez will undergo surgery sometime next week:

Dusty Baker says Yordan Alvarez is indeed out for the season. He’ll have surgery next week to repair a partially torn patella tendon.
— Jake Kaplan (@jakemkaplan) August 19, 2020

Alvarez missed the first several weeks of the season due to a bout with the coronavirus, but he homered in his debut last Friday versus the Seattle Mariners and seemed ready to begin his pandemic-shortened campaign. However, the 23-year-old was scratched from Sunday's game with knee discomfort and underwent a Monday MRI that reportedly revealed no serious injury.

On Tuesday, Houston announced that Alvarez had been placed on the 10-day injured list retroactive to Sunday.

Earlier Wednesday, Baker admitted that it appeared Alvarez was lost "maybe for the year" during an appearance on Houston sports-talk radio station KBME 790.

Alvarez hit .250 with one home run and four RBI in his only two appearances.

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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