{"id":166110,"date":"2025-08-22T09:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/166110\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T09:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:15:12","slug":"rays-reportedly-calling-up-shortstop-carson-williams-the-teams-no-1-prospect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/166110\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays reportedly calling up shortstop Carson Williams, the team’s No. 1 prospect"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> are reportedly calling up their top minor-league prospect, shortstop Carson Williams<\/a>. The move has not been confirmed by the team, but it has been reported by ESPN’s Jeff Passan<\/a> and MiLB.com’s Sam Dykstra<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Williams, 22, is ranked as the No. 47 overall prospect<\/a> by MLB.com. He was the Rays’ 2021 first-round pick (No. 28 overall) out of Torrey Pines High School in San Diego. This season at Triple-A Durham, Williams compiled a .213\/.318\/.447 slash line with 23 home runs, 55 RBI and 23 stolen bases in 451 plate appearances.<\/p>\n

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During 2023, he was moved up aggressively from high Single-A to Double-A and quickly to Triple-A, where Durham was playing for an International League title. Struggling in a brief four-game stint (batting .077 with a .354 OPS in 15 PAs), Williams played the whole 2024 season with Double-A Montgomery and followed a more conventional development.<\/p>\n

Strikeouts remain a big concern for Williams, who has whiffed 154 times (34.2%) this season. Yet Rays shortstops, led by Taylor Walls and Ha-Seong Kim, have batted a collective .213 with a .603 OPS and six home runs. That ranks third-worst in MLB in those categories at the position. As such, Williams potentially provides an upgrade. He is also an excellent defensive shortstop, winning a minor-league Gold Glove award in 2022.<\/p>\n

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The Rays are out of playoff contention at 61-66, fourth in the AL East<\/a> and 6.5 games back of the league’s third wild-card spot. Yet Williams could be a factor in the postseason race, with series against the Seattle Mariners, Chicago Cubs, Toronto Blue Jays and Boston Red Sox on Tampa Bay’s remaining schedule.<\/p>\n

Williams joins other top minor-league prospects being called up late in the MLB season, along with the Cubs’ Owen Caissie<\/a>, the Mets’ Nolan McLean<\/a> and the Orioles’ Samuel Basallo. The Pirates’ Bubba Chandler and Jhostynxon Garcia of the Red Sox<\/a> are also on their way to the majors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Rays are reportedly calling up their top minor-league prospect, shortstop Carson Williams. The move has…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":166111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1281,95558,1271,95560,5915,32581,95559,1266,86766,18766,3549,1288,62,91397,1289,62914,95562,62908,1290,95561,67,132,68,68026],"class_list":{"0":"post-166110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-boston-red-sox","9":"tag-carson-williams","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-defensive-shortstop","12":"tag-ha-seong-kim","13":"tag-jeff-passan","14":"tag-kim-klement","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-owen-caissie","17":"tag-pirates","18":"tag-san-diego","19":"tag-seattle-mariners","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-tampa-bay","22":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","23":"tag-taylor-walls","24":"tag-the-mets","25":"tag-the-rays","26":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","27":"tag-torrey-pines-high-school","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-unitedstates","30":"tag-us","31":"tag-yahoo-fantasy-football-league"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115071662593225526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}