{"id":490644,"date":"2026-02-19T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/490644\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:00:09","slug":"orioles-jordan-westburg-physically-unable-to-participate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/490644\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles’ Jordan Westburg ‘physically unable’ to participate"},"content":{"rendered":"

SARASOTA, Fla. — Baltimore Orioles<\/a> third baseman Jordan Westburg<\/a> has been “physically unable” to take part in spring training after a right oblique injury during the offseason, manager Craig Albernaz said Thursday.<\/p>\n

It was unclear if a new elbow issue also is keeping him off the field.<\/p>\n

“He’s just unable to participate right now,” first-year manager Craig Albernaz told reporters Thursday. “He’s getting evaluated by our medical team and also outside people to make sure we have a plan in place, and see what’s going on with Jordan to get him going.<\/p>\n

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“Just physically unable to go. … Just want to make sure that we do our due diligence and make sure Jordan is in the best chance to play this year.”<\/p>\n

Westburg, who turned 27 on Wednesday, hit .265 with 17 homers and 41 RBIs in 85 games last season, when he missed time with a left hamstring strain and a right ankle sprain.<\/p>\n

He hit .265 with 18 homers and 63 RBIs in 107 games in 2024, when he appeared in the All-Star Game two weeks before sustaining a broken right hand when getting hit by a pitch.<\/p>\n

The Orioles will be without second baseman Jackson Holliday<\/a> to start the season after surgery last week<\/a> to repair a broken hamate bone in his right hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SARASOTA, Fla. — Baltimore Orioles third baseman Jordan Westburg has been “physically unable” to take part in spring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-490644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}