{"id":522256,"date":"2026-01-15T20:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/522256\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T20:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:56:16","slug":"where-should-red-sox-infielder-marcelo-mayer-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/522256\/","title":{"rendered":"Where should Red Sox infielder Marcelo Mayer play?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With all the infield rumors swirling and the Red Sox third base situation thrown in flux in the aftermath of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overthemonster.com\/red-sox-comentary\/95068\/alex-bregman-signs-free-agent-deal-with-cubs-red-sox-left-scrambling\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Bregman signing with the Cubs<\/a>, Marcello Mayer\u2019s role grows more interesting. He\u2019s never played more than 91 games in a season, but boy does he look the part defensively whether you play him at short, second, or third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So it raises the question: is there a position you\u2019d rather see Marcelo Mayer at defensively going forward? Or is his greatest value to the team right now his versatility in being able to move all over the infield? The second option, which feels like what\u2019s happening, ultimately gives the front office more latitude in their quest for a right-handed bat, but before that happens, I\u2019m curious what the community thinks in terms of where he plays best, even through just the eye test.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So feel free to talk about this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overthemonster.com\/red_sox_news\/95158\/red-sox-sign-free-agent-pitcher-ranger-suarez-to-5-year-130-million-deal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Ranger Suarez signing<\/a>, the free agent rumors, the trade rumors, or whatever else you\u2019d like, and as always, be good to one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With all the infield rumors swirling and the Red Sox third base situation thrown in flux in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,45988],"class_list":{"0":"post-522256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-open-thread"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115901116202107464","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522256","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=522256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}