{"id":666752,"date":"2026-04-06T17:23:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/666752\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:23:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:23:24","slug":"on-the-horizon-cubs-vs-rays-series-preview-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/666752\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Rays series preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">The start of the 2026 season hasn\u2019t really gone the way the Rays had hoped, though of course the very small sample size is at play. One of the highlights of the season so far, though, has been the return of Shane McClanahan, the All-Star pitcher the Rays had to live without for two seasons. In his one start this year against Milwaukee he looked really good, despite the Rays not being able to get much run support to get him the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Drew Rasmussen has also had a good start to the year so he\u2019ll be a pest to Chicago bats. The fielding for the Rays has been a difficulty so far, with plenty of errors and inconsistent results. They\u2019ll hopefully get their feet under them soon, but right now they\u2019ve had struggles with keeping game leads and providing their pitching staff run support when needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Chandler Simpson, as always, will be one to watch out for if he gets on base, as he has incredible speed and great steal instincts and he\u2019s not afraid to be aggressive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The start of the 2026 season hasn\u2019t really gone the way the Rays had hoped, though of course&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,81311,7536,4245,161,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-666752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-chicago-cubs-game-information","12":"tag-chicago-cubs-series-previews","13":"tag-chicagocubs","14":"tag-cubs","15":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116358925859030314","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666752","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=666752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}