{"id":533261,"date":"2026-03-19T18:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/533261\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T18:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T18:24:10","slug":"rays-shortstop-taylor-walls-to-start-season-on-injured-list-because-of-oblique-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/533261\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays shortstop Taylor Walls to start season on injured list because of oblique problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Taylor Walls will open the season on the injured list because of a problem with his right oblique. The 29-year-old Walls batted .220 with&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla.(AP) \u2014 Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Taylor Walls will open the season on the injured list because of his right oblique.<\/p>\n<p>Walls, 29, batted .220 with a .280 on-base percentage, four homers, 38 RBIs and 14 steals in 101 games for the Rays last season.<\/p>\n<p>His injury creates the possibility that prospect Carson Williams could make Tampa Bay\u2019s opening roster.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, 22, hit .172 with a .219 on-base percentage, five homers, 12 RBIs and two steals in 32 games with Tampa Bay last season. He batted .213 with a .318 on-base percentage, 23 homers, 55 RBIs and 22 steals in 111 games for Triple-A Durham.<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Taylor Walls will open the season on the injured list because of a problem&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-533261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}