AL East: Spring training questions

For the first full week of PT TOMORROW coverage, we asked authors to focus on one specific question per team as spring training begins. 

 

Tampa Bay Rays

After a flurry of offseason activity, who will emerge in Tampa Bay’s outfield?

Cedric Mullins, signed to a one-year, $7.5 million contract in the offseason, is the only outfielder considered a true lock to break camp with Tampa Bay. Mullins seems assured to play center field against right-handed starters, though his playing time against left-handed starters is less certain. Beyond Mullins, Tampa Bay likely has room for four more outfielders, two left-handed hitters and two right-handed hitters, in what should be a platoon-heavy outfield.

Among left-handed hitters, Chandler Simpson and

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