{"id":555566,"date":"2026-03-23T15:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/555566\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T15:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:47:07","slug":"rays-gavin-lux-to-start-season-on-il-with-shoulder-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/555566\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays’ Gavin Lux to start season on IL with shoulder issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mar 23, 2026, 11:22 AM ET<\/p>\n

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — Gavin Lux<\/a>‘s debut with the Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> is going to have to wait.<\/p>\n

The club is placing the veteran infielder on injured reserve with a right shoulder impingement. The move means Richie Palacios will make the opening day roster for Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n

The Rays acquired Lux from Cincinnati in January as part of a three-team deal<\/a> that sent outfielder Josh Lowe<\/a> from Tampa Bay to the Los Angeles Angels<\/a>. Los Angeles sent left-handed reliever Brock Burke<\/a> to Cincinnati as part of the swap.<\/p>\n

Lux, 28, hit .269 with five homers and 53 RBIs last season with the Reds. A career .256 hitter who won a pair of World Series titles with the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>, Lux agreed to a $5.525 million, one-year contract shortly before being sent to Tampa Bay and can become a free agent after this year’s World Series.<\/p>\n

Lux struggled a bit in his first spring training with Tampa Bay, hitting .190 in seven games and had been dealing with what manager Kevin Cash described as a “cranky” right shoulder in recent days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 23, 2026, 11:22 AM ET PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — Gavin Lux‘s debut with the Tampa Bay Rays…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-555566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}