{"id":605180,"date":"2026-03-04T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/605180\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T06:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:00:19","slug":"orioles-zach-eflin-set-for-spring-debut-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/605180\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles&#8217; Zach Eflin: Set for spring debut Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1772058497_97_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/BAL\/baltimore-orioles\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/302.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/2044513\/eflin\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eflin<\/a> (back) is scheduled to make his spring debut in Thursday&#8217;s Grapefruit League game against the Rays, per Roch Kubatko of MASNSports.com.<\/p>\n<p>Eflin underwent back surgery in August of last year, and he&#8217;s slated to make his first appearance in game action since July of 2025. The 31-year-old right-hander was Baltimore&#8217;s Opening Day starter a year ago, but Eflin now finds himself in contention with Dean Kremer and Tyler Wells for the No. 5 rotation spot this spring.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eflin (back) is scheduled to make his spring debut in Thursday&#8217;s Grapefruit League game against the Rays, per&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,2538,5,28,4,125,96],"class_list":{"0":"post-605180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-orioles","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-orioles","10":"tag-baltimoreorioles","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-fantasy-baseball","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-orioles","15":"tag-zach-eflin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116169384292261493","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}