Following a needed off day, the American League Central-leading Cleveland Guardians welcome one of their closest pursuers in the division. Looking to continue their home success Friday night, the Guardians face a Minnesota Twins club trying to avoid a fourth straight defeat overall while also attempting to stay hot on the road.
Recently Guardians left-fielder Steven Kwan was sidelined with a hamstring injury after making defensive play. He may not be able to return until early June.
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Spending a rare off-day thinking about what direction the 2024 Guardians go in next
The Guardians are a first place team, but I want more.
This is a pretty common sentiment with fans, but I write the above sentence with no feelings of discontent or angst. I simply believe that Cleveland has a pretty good baseball team on its hands and some changes can be made to help the team get to the next level. Hopefully, Chris Antonetti has a surprise or two up his...
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2024 has been an arduous journey for the 24 year-old, and he’s taking it in stride
It’s been a unique, winding road for Tyler Freeman. Drafted out of high school by Cleveland in the second round of 2017, the soon-to-be 25 year old has finally found a sticking spot after years of grinding his way up the ranks within the organization, but not where he ever anticipated.
Tyler Freeman has played in 38 games this season for the Guardians, who are 27-17...
Cleveland Guardians minor league recap for Thursday, May 16, 2024
Akron RubberDucks 4, Altoona Curve 3Box Score · RubberDucks improve to 23-12
Akron only managed six hits and two walks, but the RubberDucks strung their hits together for three runs in the sixth inning to take the lead for good.
Alexfri Planez went 2-for-4 and Connor Kokx went 2-for-3 with an RBI single and a stolen base.
#Guardians 24yr old OF prospect Connor Kokx with a pair of hits today (2-3 RBI SB) for Akron...
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News and Notes for Thursday, May 15, 2024
CLE 0 - TEX 4
The Cleveland Guardians fell to the Texas Rangers on Wednesday night.
Cleveland offense was very quiet to start the game. At the end of the 4th inning the only Guardians to get on base were José Ramírez with a walk in the 1st, Tyler Freeman with a 2 out single in the 3rd, and Will Brennan with a walk in the 4th.
The 6th inning showed life for the offense. Andrés Giménez had a long 1-out...
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Attempting to sweep with Cookie leading the way
It’s Guardians-Rangers to wrap up a road trip and a 16 games in 16 day stretch for Cleveland. The matchup is not in their favor, but let’s see what happens!
Here’s the Guardians’ lineup:
Brought our brooms, just in case.#ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/R0z2snsjB8
— Cleveland Guardians (@CleGuardians) May 15, 2024Here’s the Rangers’ lineup:
Gray on the bump. #StraightUpTX...
Cleveland Guardians minor league recap for Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Columbus Clippers 4, Louisville Bats 11Box Score · Clippers fall to 16-23
The Columbus Clippers scored four runs in the first inning, but then gave up 11 unanswered runs in a frustrating loss Tuesday.
George Valera only had one hit, but it was a big one, a three-run home run, his second of the season.
George Valera is good at baseball pic.twitter.com/sRguSZW1Ax
— CSR (@ValeraSZN) May 15, 2024Daniel Schneemann...
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Cleveland starting pitcher Triston McKenzie speaks to Covering The Corner about giving back, overcoming mental hurdles, his friendship with Donovan Mitchell and more
Normally, I reserve my interviews for Cleveland minor league baseball prospects, but when a representative from Miller Lite reached out to me recently about an opportunity to speak with current Cleveland Guardians starting pitcher Triston McKenzie about a partnership he made with the...
Veteran right-hander Carlos Carrasco will take the mound Wednesday night as the American League Central-leading Cleveland Guardians go for a three-game series sweep of the reigning World Series champion Texas Rangers in Arlington, Texas.
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morning N&N for May 15, 2024
The Guardians got to face off with a highly-touted pitching prospect last night in Texas. Jack Leiter was on the mound, and probably wishes he hadn’t been. I don’t know how true this is, but it felt like he only threw about 11 strikes the entire night. Ankielesque.
But it looked like the Guardian offense might put his poor performance to waste, as they were unable to capitalize in the first inning. It is possible though that...
Bo Naylor hit a two-run double and Josh Naylor added a three-run home run to highlight a six-run second inning as the Cleveland Guardians won their third straight game, beating the Texas Rangers 7-4 on Tuesday in Arlington, Texas.
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Let’s secure a series win
The Guardians and Rangers meet in game two of a three-game series at 8:05PM EST.
Here’s the Guardians’ lineup:
Looking for three in a row!#ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/8n1fyvyQLz
— Cleveland Guardians (@CleGuardians) May 14, 2024Here’s the Rangers’ lineup:
Game 2 vs the Guards. pic.twitter.com/gEm1Awt5CL
— Texas Rangers (@Rangers) May 14, 2024Let’s go, Guardians!
The Rays have purchased the contract of right-hander Tyler Zuber from the independent Atlantic League’s Long Island Ducks, the Ducks announced yesterday.
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Identifying and analyzing potential promotion candidates in the Guardians minor league system
With the Guardians 42 games into the season, it's time to take a look at which prospects could be putting themselves in position for a promotion to the level above where they cureently are. Columbus Clippers:OF Johnathan Rodriguez- Johnathan Rodriguez has raked at every single level, and he’s doing it again! He’s slashing .283/.385/.457 with a 121 WRC+ and...
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News and Notes for Tuesday, May 14th, 2024
Tanner Bibee threw a strong five and a third innings, Nick Sandlin cleaned up a bases loaded mess, and Jose Ramirez, Brayan Rocchio, Tyler Freeman and Estevan Florial led a late inning surge for the Guardians in a 7-0 victory over the Rangers.
It was good to see Bibee commanding the baseball right up until the sixth inning when Vogt was happy to hand the ball to the player he calls "his pacifier" only to watch Sandlin...
Jose Ramirez went 2-for-3 with four RBIs and five Cleveland pitchers combined for a four-hitter as the Guardians handed the slumping Texas Rangers a fourth straight loss, prevailing 7-0 on Monday night in Arlington, Texas.
Jose Ramirez went 2-for-3 with four RBIs and five Cleveland pitchers combined for a four-hitter as the Guardians handed the slumping Texas Rangers their fourth straight loss 7-0 in the opener of a three-game series on Monday night in Arlington, Texas.
The Twins have signed left-hander Caleb Baragar to a minor league contract. The move was announced by Minnesota’s Triple-A team in St. Paul. Baragar makes his return to affiliated ball.
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42 is the answer to everything, we hope
The Guardians play the Rangers in Texas at 8:05PM EST
Here's the Guardians lineup:
Our lineup remains the same size (9) in Texas as it does in any other state, proving that just because "everything is bigger in Texas" doesn't mean they can break the rules of baseball lineup construction.#ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/01H19WgjNA
— Cleveland Guardians (@CleGuardians) May 13, 2024Here's the Rangers lineup:
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