HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Astros activated infielder Isaac Paredes off the injured list and placed left fielder Yordan Alvarez on the 10-day injured list on Friday ahead of their series opener against the Seattle Mariners.

Paredes sustained a right hamstring strain at Seattle on July 19 while running to first base on a single. He began running, doing fielding work and hitting at the beginning of September and had been at the Astros’ minor league facility in West Palm Beach, Florida, the last two weeks.

Paredes said through an interpreter that he wasn’t 100 percent, but he was “close to it.” He was in the lineup at designated hitter batting third on Friday night.

“I’m here to help the team any way I can,” Paredes said. “They told me I was going to be a DH for these (first) couple of day

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