{"id":549361,"date":"2026-03-27T23:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/549361\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T23:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:28:07","slug":"marlins-scratch-morel-from-fridays-game-with-strained-oblique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/549361\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins scratch Morel from Friday&#8217;s game with strained oblique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 27, 2026, 06:20 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>MIAMI &#8212; First baseman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/42927\/christopher-morel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Morel<\/a> will have to wait to make his regular-season debut with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/mia\/miami-marlins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Marlins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Morel was a late scratch from Miami&#8217;s Opening Day lineup against Colorado on Friday because of a left oblique strain. He was set to undergo further evaluation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4417606\/connor-norby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Norby<\/a> replaced Morel at first base.<\/p>\n<p>Morel, 26, was one of the Marlins&#8217; significant free agent pickups this past offseason, signing a $2 million, one-year contract in December.<\/p>\n<p>Morel emerged as Miami&#8217;s primary starting first baseman during spring training after uncertainty about who would take on that role this season. He went 6-of-40 with five RBIs and a stolen base in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>Morel hit .219 with 11 homers and 33 RBIs in 105 games with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tb\/tampa-bay-rays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 27, 2026, 06:20 PM ET MIAMI &#8212; First baseman Christopher Morel will have to wait to make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-549361","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\/549361","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=549361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}