{"id":555665,"date":"2026-03-23T16:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/555665\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T16:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:49:12","slug":"tampa-bay-rays-inf-gavin-lux-will-start-season-on-the-injured-list-with-right-shoulder-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/555665\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays INF Gavin Lux will start season on the injured list with right shoulder issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/gavin-lux\/917933\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/gavin-lux\/917933\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin Lux<\/a>\u2019s debut with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/tampa-bay-rays\/254\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/tampa-bay-rays\/254\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> is going to have to wait.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The club is placing the veteran infielder on injured reserve with a right shoulder impingement. The move means <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/richie-palacios\/1052839\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/richie-palacios\/1052839\" target=\"_blank\">Richie Palacios<\/a> will make the opening day roster for Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Rays acquired Lux from Cincinnati in January as part of a three-team deal that sent outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/josh-lowe\/917926\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/josh-lowe\/917926\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Lowe<\/a> from Tampa Bay to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-angels\/227\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-angels\/227\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a>. Los Angeles sent left-handed reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/brock-burke\/828798\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/brock-burke\/828798\" target=\"_blank\">Brock Burke<\/a> to Cincinnati as part of the swap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-dodgers\/243\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-dodgers\/243\" target=\"_blank\">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\u2019s World Series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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 \u201ccranky\u201d right shoulder in recent days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Gavin Lux\u2019s debut with the Tampa Bay Rays is going to have to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-555665","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\/555665","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=555665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}