The Rays are the third major league team to employ Jaff Decker since the Padres drafted him in the first round in 2008. He was available in the fall because his second team, the Pirates, released him in 2015. The Rays signed him as a free agent for a $510,000, partly for organizational filler, but partly because they thought they saw something worth investigating.
Decker turned 26 this year, and we all know he’s on the roster because the Rays three starting outfielders, Guyer, Kiermaier, and Souza, Jr., and minor league call-up Mahtook, are on the DL. He hasn’t hit well so far.