{"id":676781,"date":"2026-04-16T07:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/676781\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:32:11","slug":"luke-williams-elects-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/676781\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Williams Elects Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Utilityman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=willilu01,willia009luk,willia008luk&amp;search=Luke+Williams&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-16_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Luke Williams<\/a> elected free agency after being designated for assignment by the Braves, relays <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MrChadBishop\/status\/2044504137765654536?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chad Bishop of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a>. He cleared waivers and has multiple career outright assignments, allowing him to return to the market.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a decent chance that\u2019s just a formality and a precursor to a new minor league contract with Atlanta. Williams has bounced on and off the Braves\u2019 roster for the past three-plus seasons. He received a brief call over the weekend while\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/harrimi04.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-16_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michael Harris II<\/a> was on paternity leave. Williams is out of minor league options and was surely aware he\u2019d be the cut once Harris returned to the team.<\/p>\n<p>The call-up gave Williams a few days of major league pay. He appeared in two games, once as a defense substitute and one as a pinch-hitter. He drew a walk against\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/a\/allarko01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-16_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kolby Allard<\/a> in his only plate appearance. Williams has taken 350 trips to the plate in the big leagues. He\u2019s a .212\/.272\/.280 hitter, though he has stolen 25 bases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Utilityman\u00a0Luke Williams elected free agency after being designated for assignment by the Braves, relays Chad Bishop of The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,7485],"class_list":{"0":"post-676781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-luke-williams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116413224254774820","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676781","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=676781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}