{"id":98164,"date":"2025-03-25T13:56:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T17:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=98164"},"modified":"2025-03-25T13:56:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T17:56:30","slug":"marlins-connor-norby-oblique-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/03\/25\/marlins-connor-norby-oblique-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Promising Marlins Infielder to Start Season on Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Miami Marlins announced that infielder Connor Norby will start the season on the injured list with a strained oblique. Marlins&#8217; manager Clayton McCullough broke the news to reporters on Tuesday that the young infielder will miss approximately four weeks with a Grade 1 left oblique strain. The 24-year-old reportedly suffered the injury while taking a swing during Grapefruit League play on Saturday evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Connor Norby Grade 1 left oblique strain.<br \/>\nHe will start the season on the IL. <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Marlins?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Marlins<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christina De Nicola (@CDeNicola13) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CDeNicola13\/status\/1904536880969912354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Marlins Place Connor Norby on Injured List with Oblique Injury<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/n\/norbyco01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Connor Norby<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, along with outfielder <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/stoweky01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kyle Stowers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/30\/trevor-rogers-trade\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">acquired from the Orioles<\/a> at last year\u2019s trade deadline in exchange for left-hander <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rogertr01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trevor Rogers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. One of Baltimore\u2019s top prospects, Norby played 36 games for the Fish over the final six weeks of the season. Splitting his time between second and third base, he hit seven home runs, drove in 17, and slashed .247\/.315\/.445 over 162 trips to the plate. Norby delivered a solid spring performance, hitting .255\/.294\/.404, and was expected to be the Marlins\u2019 everyday third baseman. While the job should still be his to lose when he returns, his absence is a tough blow for Miami.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Outside of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/a\/alcansa01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sandy Alc\u00e1ntara<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s return from Tommy John surgery, the rebuilding Marlins have little to look forward to in 2025. One of their best hitters, outfielder <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sanchje02.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jes\u00fas S\u00e1nchez<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, will miss at least the first two weeks with an oblique injury. Earlier today, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CDeNicola13\/status\/1904517695019638985\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MLB.com\u2019s Christina De Nicola<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reported that with Norby sidelined, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/paulegr01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Graham Pauley<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will make the Opening Day roster. Pauley was <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/30\/padres-acquire-tanner-scott-marlins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">part of the trade<\/a> sending <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/scottta01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tanner Scott<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to San Diego and is batting .269\/.345\/.653 this spring. Once a well-regarded prospect, he struggled in his debut last season, playing 13 games and going 4-for-32 with 15 strikeouts. Despite his offensive struggles, Pauley is one of Miami\u2019s few third base options and could see a good amount of playing time in his absence. According to De Nicola, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wagamer01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eric Wagaman<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bridejo01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jonah Bride<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> could also platoon at third base or as the designated hitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credits: Sam Navarro-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami Marlins announced that infielder Connor Norby will start the season on the injured list with a strained oblique. Marlins&#8217; manager Clayton McCullough broke the news to reporters on Tuesday that the young infielder will miss approximately four weeks with a Grade 1 left oblique strain. The 24-year-old reportedly suffered the injury while taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4975,"featured_media":98193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[28533],"class_list":["post-98164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marlins","tag-connor-norby"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4975"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98164"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98195,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98164\/revisions\/98195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}