The Tampa Bay Rays have officially finalized the 26-man roster for the 2026 season, including six players to the injured list.<\/p>\n
Here is your 2026 Rays for Opening Day:<\/p>\n
LEFT-HANDED PITCHERS (4): Garrett Cleavinger, Steven Matz, Shane McClanahan, Ian Seymour<\/p>\n
RIGHT-HANDED PITCHERS (9): Bryan Baker, Joe Boyle, Mason Englert, Yoendrys G\u00f3mez, Griffin Jax, Kevin Kelly, Nick Martinez, Drew Rasmussen, Cole Sulser<\/p>\n
CATCHERS (2): Hunter Feduccia*, Nick Fortes<\/p>\n
INFIELDERS (5): Jonathan Aranda*, Junior Caminero, Yandy D\u00edaz, Carson Williams, Ben Williamson<\/p>\n
OUTFIELDERS (6): Jonny DeLuca, Jake Fraley*, Cedric Mullins*, Richie Palacios*, Chandler Simpson*, Ryan Vilade<\/p>\n
10-DAY INJURED LIST (2): INF Gavin Lux*, INF Taylor Walls**<\/p>\n
15-DAY INJURED LIST (2): RHP Ryan Pepiot, RHP Edwin Uceta<\/p>\n
60-DAY INJURED LIST (2): RHP Manuel Rodr\u00edguez (recovery from right elbow surgery), RHP Steven Wilson<\/p>\n
*left-handed batter
**switch hitting batter<\/p>\n
It should be noted that both Palacios and Vilade are capable of manning infield positions and are in play for second base roles with Lux on the injured list with a shoulder injury, while short stop should be primarily manned by Williams following an oblique strain for Walls.<\/p>\n
As the final move, the Rays have elected to add LHP Cam Booser to the 40-man roster, but are optioning him to Triple-A. To make room, reliever Wilson \u2014 acquired from the White Sox alongside reliever Gomez in the OF Everson Pereira\/UTIL Tanner Murray trade \u2014 was moved to the 60-day injured list with a lower back injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Rays have officially finalized the 26-man roster for the 2026 season, including six players to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,4,297,2550,68,42466,2551,2549],"class_list":{"0":"post-643564","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-mlb","10":"tag-rays","11":"tag-tampa-bay","12":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","13":"tag-tampa-bay-rays-news","14":"tag-tampabay","15":"tag-tampabayrays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116292590810977025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643564","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=643564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}