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Tampa Bay • #65 • SS

Carson Williams

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Preseason
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TOR
Thu, Mar 20
L 4-1
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ATL
Fri, Mar 21
L 7-3
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BOS
Sat, Mar 22
W 14-2
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NYY
Sun, Mar 23
T 3-3
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PHI
Mon, Mar 24
L 8-6
Regular season
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COL
Fri, Mar 28
4:10 pm
ROTV
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COL
Sat, Mar 29
4:10 pm
ROTV
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COL
Sun, Mar 30
1:40 pm
ROTV
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PIT
Mon, Mar 31
7:05 pm
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PIT
Tue, Apr 1
7:05 pm
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Player Outlook
Carson Williams was hit on the hand by a pitch and exited a game June 12 before returning June 18. Before the hit-by-pitch, Williams slashed .294/.376/.552 with 10 home runs, 15 steals and a 27.1 percent strikeout rate in 49 games. After the HBP, he slashed .225/.331/.400 with 10 home runs, 17 steals, and a 29.6 percent strikeout rate in 66 games. It's possible the hand injury hurt his production and he'll be the pre-injury version of himself in 2025, and it's also possible the post-HBP decline was a coincidence and Williams is just the hitter we saw over the whole season (.256/.352/.469, 11.5 BB%, 28.5 K%). He has always had extremely strong tools with the exception of his hit tool -- his power, speed, defense and throwing arm all grading as at least plus. It's easy to get scared off by all the strikeouts, but players like Trevor Story and Jazz Chisholm had similar strikeout and walk rates to Williams in the minors and went on to be excellent fantasy options. The defensive component, particularly at shortstop where Tampa Bay lacks another quality long-term option, should buy Williams a lot of chances at the big-league level in the coming years. He should spend most, if not all of 2025 at Triple-A.

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Batting Average
2025 — — — — — — — .000
2024 — — — — — — — .000
2023 — — — — — — — .000
3y Avg. — — — — — — — .000
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  • Rays' Carson Williams: Doubles off Crochet

    Rotowire
    Williams went 1-for-4 with a double against the Red Sox in Wednesday's Grapefruit League game. Williams got the chance to start at shortstop while hitting fifth in the order. He faced Garrett Crochet in the second inning and fell behind 0-2 in the count before lacing a double to left field that landed just before the wall. Williams is a candidate for a mid-season promotion to the majors and has gone 2-for-13 with three strikeouts and two walks so far in spring training.
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  • Rays' Carson Williams: Returns from week-long absence

    Rotowire
    Williams (hand) returned to action Tuesday for Double-A Montgomery and has gone 1-for-7 with two walks, a run and an RBI while starting at shortstop in the club's last two contests. Williams missed a week of action with a hand injury but was never placed on Montgomery's 7-day injured list. The 20-year-old shortstop prospect is hitting .289/.374/.537 with 10 home runs and 15 stolen bases across 230 plate appearances in the Southern League this season.
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  • Rays' Carson Williams: Dealing with hand injury

    Rotowire
    Williams is considered day-to-day after being hit by a pitch in the hand during Wednesday's game with Double-A Montgomery, MLB.com reports. X-rays and an MRI came back clean, so it appears as if Williams has avoided serious injury. That's positive news, as he's had an excellent season with Montgomery, maintaining a .928 OPS with 10 home runs and 15 stolen bases across 49 games.
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  • Rays' Carson Williams: Stock way up at Double-A

    Rotowire
    Williams is slashing .336/.410/.571 with five home runs, nine steals, a 24.6 percent strikeout rate and a 72.3 percent contact rate in 29 games for Double-A Montgomery. Williams has plus power, above-average speed and a chance to develop into a 70-grade defender at shortstop, it's just a question of how good his hit tool will be. While Williams' .432 BABIP is obviously inflating his line somewhat, his start to the season is encouraging, as he had a 31.8 percent strikeout rate and a contact rate below 65 percent last year. The Rays are getting good real-life shortstop play from Jose Caballero (0.8 fWAR), and Williams isn't on the 40-man roster, so he may still spend most, or all the season in the upper levels of the minors, but his dynasty stock is trending steeply up.
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  • Rays' Carson Williams: Falls off after hot start

    Rotowire
    Williams is hitting .255/.347/.489 with 13 home runs, 21 steals and 41:125 BB:K in 82 games for Single-A Charleston. Yep, that's 125 strikeouts in 82 games for Williams -- good for an ugly 32.9 percent strikeout rate. He came out of the gate on fire, putting up a .323 average and 1.018 OPS through his first 33 games of the year, but in the 50 games since, he's put up a .208 batting average and .710 OPS. The stolen-base production has fallen off, too -- he's gone 0-for-2 over his last 16 games. Williams still boasts an intriguing power-speed blend, and he's considered a good bet to stick at shortstop, so there's still plenty to dream on here, but as the Rays (and fantasy managers) have seen with the travails of Josh Lowe this year, a subpar hit tool can prevent the other tools from showing through regularly.
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  • Rays' Carson Williams: Enticing results in Single-A

    Rotowire
    Williams is hitting .323/.418/.600 with four homers, 12 steals, 1 RBI and 25 runs across 33 games for Single-A Charleston. That 1.018 OPS is the good news; the bad news is that Williams has a 33.3 percent strikeout rate. He's also drawing walks at a decent clip (13.1 percent), but he'll need to cut down on those swing-and-miss issues to have any hope of hitting for decent average in the big leagues. Nonetheless, it's been an incredible start to the year for Williams, who's shown a ton of extra-base ability with 10 doubles and seven triples to accompany his four long balls. Considering his exploits on the bases, it seems like evaluators may have underestimated his speed. He should be a big riser on the midseason prospect lists.
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