The 2023 season was a disappointing one for the Guardians as they finished third in the division and 11 games back from .500 with a 76-86 record. They enter 2024 hoping to bounce back and compete in the Central Division with the up-and-coming Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Royals, and the Division-winning Minnesota Twins.
The Rockies won 59 games last season and made almost no significant additions.
The 23-year-old Manzardo is the top prospect acquired from the Rays in last summer’s Aaron Civale trade. He’d been a candidate to make the roster heading into camp
As the Guardians push further into Spring Training, three positive stories from Goodyear
Another Monday, another weekend over with. In addition to that much needed cup of coffee (and maybe a donut), here’s a little pick-me-up for all your baseball needs.
DeLauter is DeWinner of SpringChase DeLauter was Cleveland’s first pick in the 2022 draft out of James Madison.Currently the team’s No. 1 prospect and No. 31 in all of MLB, there was no doubt that he would get an invite to...
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News and Notes for Monday, March 18th, 2024
Shane Bieber struck out eight in five and two-thirds scoreless innings, allowing two hits, two walks and one run, leading the Guardians to a 4-2 wins over the Reds in Spring Training yesterday. Emmanuel Clase and Tim Herrin added scoreless innings, and Eli Morgan gave up another homer. As always, hard to tell much from Spring Training appearances where guys may be simply working on things, but Morgan has been...
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News and Notes for Sunday, March 17th, 2024
The Guardians won their Spring Breakout matchup 6-2 vs. the Cincinnati Reds, and lost 6-0 to the Giants in their Spring Training game.
First, the good. Guardians’ pitching looked good in the Spring Breakout game, with Doug Nikhazy striking out six in three innings, giving up one earned run, and the rest of the staff completely shutting down the Reds, with scoreless innings from Nic Enright and Andrew Walters and two...
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News and Notes for Sunday, March 17th, 2024
Terry Pluto wrote an article that I’ll let Quincy summarize for you:Terry Pluto said today:
De Los Santos will make the roster
Florial will be a regular starter in CF (it's weird they haven't been playing him there much...?)
Manzardo & DeLauter are set to play a good portion of 2024 in Cleveland, just not at first
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When is the right time for the Guardians’ top prospect to debut
It started out with a tweet, how did it end up like this? It was only a tweet, it was only a tweet.
On March 4th, Jeff Passan of ESPN published an article about prospects impressing in Spring Training and he had a pull-quote on Chase DeLauter of the Guardians for the ages, here captured by Twitter user I480BRIDGE:
From Jeff Passan pic.twitter.com/06jKyKAZ20
—...Brayan Rocchio was born in Caracas, Venezuela, on January 13, 2001. He wasn’t ranked in the Top 30 International Prospects in 2017. Rocchio signed with the Cleveland Guardians in July of 2017.
Longtime major league outfielder Kole Calhoun is retiring. He made the announcement Friday night via his Instagram account. "The day has come that I announce my retirement from Major League Baseball," Calhoun, 36, began his post.
In an emotional social media post, he thanked his family, the Los Angeles Angels for taking a chance on him and baseball fans all around the world.
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News and Notes for Saturday, March 16, 2024
The Guardians beat the Royals 6-1 in a Spring Training game yesterday, and Chase DeLauter got another hit and a walk. Jose Ramirez, Deyvison De Los Santos and David Fry added doubles and Daniel Schneemann had a two-run triple. Tyler Bedee threw five scoreless innings giving up three hits and a walk and striking out three, adding himself to a list of non-roster invites being considered for the...
Veteran outfielder Kole Calhoun announced his retirement this evening on Instagram.
The Cleveland Guardians have a core of young players that believe they have what it takes to compete in a competitive American League Central. Last season ended in disappointing fashion for the Cleveland Guardians.
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News and Notes for Friday, March 15th, 2024
Beware the Ides of March. Or, Ides of March Eve, I guess, as the Guardians got less than ideal news of varying intensities on four pitchers yesterday. Daniel Espino will have shoulder surgery again. I feel terrible for a player whose work ethic is rumored to be unparalleled and whose character is supposed to be superb. Trevor Stephan will also have surgery to repair his UCL and miss the 2024 season. Here’s a clip...
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We have some new arrivals to the roster
The Guardians have added some more prospects to their roster for Saturday’s Spring Breakout game.
On Saturday, March 16th, the Guardians’ and Reds’ top prospects will match-up in a game at 7:05 EST to which you can listen on MLB.com. So far, it doesn’t appear you will be able to watch it because MLB and Bally Sports are great like that. We previewed the initial roster release earlier, please check...
The Cleveland Guardians are ushering in a new era, turning to first-year manager Stephen Vogt to help them return to American League (AL) Central Division contention following a 2023 season that saw the team start well before tumbling to a 76-86 record and third-place divisional finish.
The Guardians will be in need of arms as many of their pitchers find themselves sidelined with injuries.
The Cleveland Guardians' pitching depth has taken a hit, with a pair of right-handers expected to miss the 2024 season. Reliever Trevor Stephan has been bothered by discomfort to his pitching elbow and bony edema.
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News and Notes for Thursday, March 14th, 2024
The Guardians lost a Spring Training game 8-3 to the Cubs. Tanner Bibee had a rough start, really the first one of the Spring for a Guardians starter.
I’m sure he’ll be fine. Steven Kwan, Andres Gimenez and Bo Naylor each had a couple hits, Jose Ramirez hit a two-run homer...
José Ramírez with a 2-run homerun to right field. His 3rd homerun of Spring Training pic.twitter.com/RNNhDqlBOJ
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