{"id":639263,"date":"2026-03-23T17:25:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/639263\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T17:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:25:17","slug":"2b-gavin-lux-to-il-util-richie-palacios-makes-opening-day-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/639263\/","title":{"rendered":"2B Gavin Lux to IL, UTIL Richie Palacios makes Opening Day roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Rays projected starting second baseman Gavin Lux has been battling through a right shoulder impingement, with manager Kevin Cash saying the team was in a time crunch ahead of Opening Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As the best cure for such irritations in the rotator cuff region is rest, the Rays have opted to move Lux to the injured list to start his Rays career, clearing a roster spot for Richie Palacios to make the Opening Day roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Palacios has had a long road to making the Rays 2026 roster, having been expected to make the team out of Spring Training in 2025 until he suffered a broken finger. Palacios returned for one game on April 17 before picking up yet another injury through a right knee sprain. He wouldn\u2019t make his way back to the Rays until September, with 2025 getting chalked up as a lost year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On the bright side, Palacios was able to finish the year with a 138 wRC+ over 48 plate appearances, so hopefully the left handed hitting utility man can make an impact early on. No matter what happens, Lux will be expected to receive a roster slot when he returns from injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rays projected starting second baseman Gavin Lux has been battling through a right shoulder impingement, with manager Kevin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,4,297,2550,68,42466,2551,2549],"class_list":{"0":"post-639263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-rays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-rays","11":"tag-tampa-bay","12":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","13":"tag-tampa-bay-rays-news","14":"tag-tampabay","15":"tag-tampabayrays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116279661386754140","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639263","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=639263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}