{"id":635901,"date":"2026-03-21T19:44:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/635901\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T19:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:44:20","slug":"rays-ryan-vilade-makes-opening-day-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/635901\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays&#8217; Ryan Vilade: Makes Opening Day roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773938665_387_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/TB\/tampa-bay-rays\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/329.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Manager Kevin Cash said Saturday that <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/2837639\/vilade\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vilade<\/a> will be on the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/TB\/tampa-bay-rays\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rays<\/a>&#8216; Opening Day roster, Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times reports.<\/p>\n<p>Vilade didn&#8217;t have a particularly impressive spring, slashing .225\/.319\/.350 across 47 plate appearances, but he&#8217;s earned a spot on the Rays&#8217; bench as a utility player. The 27-year-old is just 9-for-64 (.141) at the plate in his MLB career and shouldn&#8217;t be viewed as someone who will make much of an impact in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manager Kevin Cash said Saturday that Vilade will be on the Rays&#8216; Opening Day roster, Marc Topkin of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,28,4,297,18332,2550,68,2551,2549],"class_list":{"0":"post-635901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-rays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-fantasy-baseball","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-rays","12":"tag-ryan-vilade","13":"tag-tampa-bay","14":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","15":"tag-tampabay","16":"tag-tampabayrays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116268884285847329","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635901","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=635901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}