{"id":643969,"date":"2026-03-26T05:43:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T05:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/643969\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T05:43:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T05:43:18","slug":"rays-finalize-26-man-roster-for-2026-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/643969\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays finalize 26-man roster for 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The Tampa Bay Rays have officially finalized the 26-man roster for the 2026 season, including six players to the injured list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Here is your 2026 Rays for Opening Day:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">LEFT-HANDED PITCHERS (4):\u00a0Garrett Cleavinger, Steven Matz, Shane McClanahan, Ian Seymour<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">RIGHT-HANDED PITCHERS (9):\u00a0Bryan Baker, Joe Boyle, Mason Englert, Yoendrys G\u00f3mez, Griffin Jax, Kevin Kelly, Nick Martinez, Drew Rasmussen, Cole Sulser<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">CATCHERS (2):\u00a0Hunter Feduccia*, Nick Fortes<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">INFIELDERS (5):\u00a0Jonathan Aranda*, Junior Caminero, Yandy D\u00edaz, Carson Williams, Ben Williamson<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">OUTFIELDERS (6):\u00a0Jonny DeLuca, Jake Fraley*, Cedric Mullins*, Richie Palacios*, Chandler Simpson*, Ryan Vilade<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">10-DAY INJURED LIST (2):\u00a0INF Gavin Lux*, INF Taylor Walls**<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">15-DAY INJURED LIST (2):\u00a0RHP Ryan Pepiot, RHP Edwin Uceta<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">60-DAY INJURED LIST (2):\u00a0RHP Manuel Rodr\u00edguez (recovery from right elbow surgery), RHP Steven Wilson<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">*left-handed batter<br \/>**switch hitting batter<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">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<p class=\"\">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,4806,13151,607,17802,7882,1999,6925,182,1099,6439,21295,2540,12626,1398,4682,1158,7533,4,14362,1928,2145,761,11780,297,1956,18332,5720,1555,4274,295,2550,68,2551,2549,70,5824,396,3348],"class_list":{"0":"post-643969","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-ben-williamson","10":"tag-bryan-baker","11":"tag-cam-booser","12":"tag-carson-williams","13":"tag-cole-sulser","14":"tag-drew-rasmussen","15":"tag-edwin-uceta","16":"tag-florida","17":"tag-garrett-cleavinger","18":"tag-griffin-jax","19":"tag-ian-seymour","20":"tag-injured-list","21":"tag-joe-boyle","22":"tag-jonny-deluca","23":"tag-junior-caminero","24":"tag-lux","25":"tag-mason-englert","26":"tag-mlb","27":"tag-nathan-ray","28":"tag-nathan-ray-seebeck-imagn","29":"tag-nick-fortes","30":"tag-nick-martinez","31":"tag-palacios","32":"tag-rays","33":"tag-ryan-pepiot","34":"tag-ryan-vilade","35":"tag-shane-mcclanahan","36":"tag-steven-matz","37":"tag-steven-wilson","38":"tag-tampa","39":"tag-tampa-bay","40":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","41":"tag-tampabay","42":"tag-tampabayrays","43":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","44":"tag-usa","45":"tag-white-sox","46":"tag-yandy-diaz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643969","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=643969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}