Tag: Cleveland Guardians

Reasons for each MLB team to be optimistic — and pessimistic — about the rest of the season

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Believe it or not, we have played five weeks of the regular season, and already we’ve seen enough to identify reasons for optimism and pessimism for all 30 teams.

Is the glass half-empty? Half-full? From those at the top of the MLB power rankings to those at the bottom, every team has reasons for hope and concern in 2024.

NL East

Atlanta Braves

Reason for optimism: The Braves have the best lineup in baseball one to nine, with athleticism, power

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What we learned in MLB’s first month of the season, an unpredictable and electric April

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So what do you know. We made it through April. What a bizarre month.

Taylor Ward outhomered a guy who hit 54 homers last year (Matt Olson). Maikel Garcia had more extra-base hits than Vlad Guerrero Jr.

Ronel Blanco has been the best starting pitcher on the Astros. The reigning National League Cy Young Award winner (Blake Snell) has been the worst starting pitcher on the Giants.

Josh Hader’s ERA is over 6.00. Brennan Bernardino’s ERA is under 1.00.

Why

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MLB-Insider sind „ziemlich besorgt“ über die Zunahme von Armverletzungen bei jungen Top-Startspielern

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Matt Blake schickte dem Pitcher der Cleveland Guardians, Shane Bieber, am Wochenende eine versöhnliche Nachricht. Als Mitglied des Spielerentwicklungssystems von Cleveland in den 2010er Jahren unterstützte Blake Biebers Aufstieg vom College-Walk-on zum einstimmigen Cy Young Award-Gewinner der American League im Jahr 2020. Eine Zeit lang repräsentierte Bieber das moderne Modell für die Herstellung eines großen Liga-Ass, ein Spieler, der seinem Körper mehr Stärke, seinem Fastball Schnelligkeit und seinem Offspeed-Pitch mehr Spin verlieh, als er die Ränge aufstieg.

Als Blake seine

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Fans der Oakland Athletics protestieren am MLB-Eröffnungstag auf dem Parkplatz … während sie sich über die Entscheidung, das Team nach Las Vegas zu verlegen, aufregen und sich weigern, das Stadion zu betreten, um die brutale 0:8-Niederlage anzusehen

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Tausende Fans der Oakland Athletics versammelten sich am Eröffnungstag der MLB vor dem berühmten Kolosseum des Teams, um gegen den bevorstehenden Umzug nach Las Vegas zu protestieren.

Vor, während und nach ihrer brutalen 0:8-Niederlage gegen die Cleveland Guardians veranstalteten die Fangruppen Oakland 68s und Last Dive Bar einen Boykott auf dem Parkplatz des Stadions, damit die Fans ihren Unmut über den Umzug der A zum Ausdruck bringen konnten.

Der Boykott umfasste Werbegeschenke, T-Shirts, eine Reihe grüner „Verkaufe“-Flaggen und Sammelnadeln zur

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MLB offseason grades 2.0 : Which teams passed — and which teams failed

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The Athletic’s MLB offseason grades 1.0.

By Tim Britton, Grant Brisbee and Aaron Gleeman

According to a report by an economics professor at Yale University, roughly 80 percent of all grades handed out to undergraduate students last year were As. Too bad for major-league executives, then, that they don’t attend Yale (at least not anymore, in several cases). The grading is going to be harsher here.

The best teachers, of course, are kind enough to allow for revision. We first

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Year of the splitter? Once a dark art, the pitch is primed to take over baseball

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By Zack Meisel, Cody Stavenhagen and Stephen J. Nesbitt

GOODYEAR, Ariz. — A decade ago, on a dusty baseball diamond in Puerto Rico, a veteran pitcher shared with Fernando Cruz the secrets of throwing a splitter, a pitch treated like a black-market product, a dark art best learned in the shadows and deployed at one’s own risk.

Cruz was a converted infielder pitching in winter ball back home and trying to catch on with a major league organization. He couldn’t

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2024 MLB ‘Wild-Card Era’ Franchise Rankings: Rangers break into top 10, Cubs fall out

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As Jonah Heim squeezed the final strike of the 2023 postseason and Josh Sborz spiked his mitt on the mound to celebrate the Texas Rangers’ first World Series title, a thought crossed my mind: How will this change the franchise rankings?

See, the Wild-Card Era (1995 to present) franchise rankings are not a creation of my fallible mind. They are borne from a tested, trusted, completely objective, never-been-questioned, all-math, no-bias formula borrowed from football writer Bob Sturm and tweaked to

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Top 100 MLB prospects 2024: Keith Law’s rankings, with Jackson Holliday at No. 1

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Welcome to this year’s ranking of the top 100 prospects in baseball. I’ve been compiling and writing such rankings for 17 years now, and those of you who’ve read them before will find the format here similar to those from the recent past. My farm reports covering at least 20 prospects in each team’s system, and notes on prospects who might appear in the majors this year, or who might be breakout prospects for the 2025 rankings, will appear starting

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Totale Sonnenfinsternis: Der Heimauftakt der Guardians fällt mit einer seltenen Sonnenfinsternis zusammen

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CLEVELAND – Verwirrte Vögel beginnen zu zwitschern. Autofahrer, die im grenzenlosen Verkehrsgewirr gefangen sind, hören mit dem Hupen auf. Die Temperatur wird sinken. Sluggers, die Schlagübungen auf dem Progressive Field schlagen, werden für eine kosmische Pause innehalten.

Am 8. April um 15:13 Uhr ET wird der Frühlingshimmel über der Innenstadt von Cleveland Schauplatz einer totalen Sonnenfinsternis sein, während der Schatten des Mondes über die Mitte des Landes wandert und die Verfolger der Sonnenfinsternis nach dem perfekten Ort für das Spektakel

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What we learned from the Baseball Hall of Fame election: Beltré’s big night, Mauer power and more

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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — There were Adrián Beltré and Joe Mauer. This was their first Hall of Fame election. They won’t need a second. On Tuesday, they became baseball’s newest first-ballot Hall of Famers. And that stamps them as baseball royalty, connected forever to this special stamp of greatness.

Beltré reeled in 95.1 percent of the vote. That’s the same percentage as a guy named Babe Ruth. If he ever needs to impress people at a party over the next 40

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