{"id":612466,"date":"2026-03-08T00:36:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T00:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/612466\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T00:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T00:36:42","slug":"rays-reacts-results-fifth-outfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/612466\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays Reacts Results: Fifth Outfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The Rays seem primed to carry five outfield capable defenders this season, with Jake Fraley (L) and Cedric Mullins (L) on MLB deals, utility man Ryan Vilade (R) out of options, and previous starting center fielder Jonny DeLuca (R) returning from injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">If the Rays carry a fifth, these five players are the key candidates, and our poll asked who should win:<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Here are the results:<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"1200\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/41402aff59a1b5f06e2a66b6c1b5d44d.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Interestingly, Mesa Jr. did not receive any votes, but it perhaps shouldn\u2019t be surprising Simpson got the nod in this poll when he has a \u201cbobblelegs\u201d giveaway on the calendar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Our Reacts posts are SB Nation are sponsored by FanDuel \u2014 you can prep your bets for the new MLB season here: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsbook.fanduel.com\/navigation\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/sportsbook.fanduel.com\/navigation\/mlb;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/sportsbook.fanduel.com\/navigation\/mlb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rays seem primed to carry five outfield capable defenders this season, with Jake Fraley (L) and Cedric&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[143,47,5,77,457,18418,1180,1398,7213,10498,4771,79399,4,4377,297,11781,18332,2550,68,2551,2549,5824,16204],"class_list":["post-612466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baseball","tag-cedric-mullins","tag-chandler-simpson","tag-jacob-melton","tag-jake-fraley","tag-jonny-deluca","tag-justyn-henry-malloy","tag-mandatory-credit","tag-maryland","tag-mitch-stringer-imagn","tag-mlb","tag-oriole-park-at-camden-yards","tag-rays","tag-richie-palacios","tag-ryan-vilade","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays","tag-usa","tag-victor-mesa-jr"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116190762801504065","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612466","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=612466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}