The Guardians optioned Sandlin to Triple-A Columbus on Monday.

Cleveland's pitching staff now sits at 12 men -- one below the maximum amount imposed by MLB -- but Sandlin was sent to the minors to clear a spot on the 26-man active roster for right-hander Aaron Civale (thigh), who is on track to come off the 15-day injured list to start Tuesday's game in Minnesota.

Sandlin had appeared in 19 games out of the Cleveland bullpen this season, compiling a 2.89 ERA, 1.61 WHIP and 18:13 K:BB across 18.2 innings.

Sandlin needs to get things back in order; he's been walking guys like bad recently
Castro is a terrible fill in but we have 7 other relievers ahead of him. I vote for Nick Mickoalajchek to get promotion, with any among Tobias Myers, Kyle McCarty, Castro or Yohan Ramirez dfa'd

all star vote report:

Jose is 16,000 behind Devers; Giminez is 3rd among 2nd basemen; no one else is higher than 10th

civ ollilavad wrote:Sandlin needs to get things back in order; he's been walking guys like bad recently
Castro is a terrible fill in but we have 7 other relievers ahead of him. I vote for Nick Mickoalajchek to get promotion, with any among Tobias Myers, Kyle McCarty, Castro or Yohan Ramirez dfa'd

Be interesting to see how they can clear up their 40 man issue as the trade deadline gets closer. Then they will have more flexibility. But you know that civ!

The atrocious Anthony Castro returned to Columbus. The atrocious Yohan Ramirez recalled-- he walks most everyone he faces except for those he strikes out. Let's hope we never need to actually need to use him.

Sorry, but this is not after the fact I would have pinch run for Reyes after he got on prubably anyone would have scored on that grounder and if they had slid
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I also would have pinch hit for some one or more of the 3 guys who batted with the bases loaded in the 8th. Super pinch hitter Richie Palacios was available And Naylor got into the game. They were more likely to get the ball in the air than Clement

More awful stats for this Yohan Ramirez who they promoted:

12 homers in 58 2/3 career innings to go along with 38 walks and 9 hit batters

He has had a few good moments one of which earned this comment last September:

"The leverage moments continue to grow for Yohan Ramirez, so much so that he could be a key cog in a Mariners bullpen that has already been the club's biggest catalyst this season. That’s because the trust in the right-hander from Mariners manager Scott Servais is as high as ever, especially after a gritty 10th-inning performance in an 11-inning win on Sunday in Arizona. Ramirez worked around a sacrifice bunt that put the lead runner at third base before striking out Christian Walker and retiring Josh Rojas on a popup to keep the game tied. Many Mariners speaking of the game the next day admittedly thought the game was on the ropes.
“No fear,” third baseman Kyle Seager said of Ramirez's performance. “That guy pitches with no fear.”


Well until proven otherwise I will have considerable fear when he enters a game.

remains unclear who got the better of the Castro-Zimmer trade. Bradley is still hitting a lofty 111 but with room for an additional player on the roster this year, the Blue Jays are content to keep him on hand to play an inning or two of defense when they're holding a lead and pray that the bullpen doesn't blow the save and force them to bring Zimmer to the plate.

So on the telecast yesterday they stated the Guardians are the youngest team in MLB.

In addition, they are younger than every single team in AAA! Except one.

Columbus.

Excerpt from an article by Peter Gammons:

Mike Hazen (AZ) and Cherington (Pitt) both came out of an organizational culture, first in Cleveland, later in Boston, that eschews promises; when John Hart and Dan O’Dowd hired the base of what became Mark Shapiro’s organization, those who rose up and out of it — Chris Antonetti, Mike Chernoff, Cherington, Hazen, Ross Atkins, Carter Hawkins, Derek Falvey, David Stearns — all modestly have development and collaboration on page 3 of their business plans, with the hope of finding a Zac Gallen who becomes a Cliff Lee, or unearthing a Contreras who becomes a Corey Kluber.

“It is about long-term consistency,” says Cherington.

Be they the Pirates, Royals, Athletics, Marlins, Diamondbacks, Indians or Reds, one $200 million signing and a winter’s splash in the deep end of the pool can take an organization off the tracks for years.

Look at the Marlins: they made a couple of deals based on youthful enthusiasm and attraction to tools and wasted those trades, then had to downsize and reorganize, and now have enough high-ceiling young pitching and a host of power bullpen arms coming that in the next nine months they can acquire some skilled position talent to be legitimate NL East factors next year.

Cleveland front office has been earning praise for many years and honestly our owner deserves credit for constantly restocking the executive suite with bright young men.

Tanner Tully with 5+ ERA comes up to replace Y. Ramirez as they work diligently to not wear out the bullpen.

civ - here's a thing to keep in mind about all this talk about the bullpen limits and protecting arms.

Remember that when Theo Epstein left the Cubs he was put in charge of all things MLB regarding rule changes and general improvements to make it more fan friendly.

Theo knows there is value to BIEBER vs. COLE type matchups. People take their families to games to see those matchups. Matchups with unknown relievers who leave after an inning or two? Bleh.

Yet the analytics led to endless parades of relievers - even starting games! Efficient? Maybe. Interesting. Hell no.

So the reduction to 13 pitchers on a roster is so that STARTERS will have to start going back to eating more innings to SAVE bullpens. Tito may not like it but oddly Cleveland has the starters to get this done - unlike many other organizations.

I love the 13 pitcher limit. Keep that freaking starter in past 5 innings endlessly and you won't burn out your bullpen.

"only 13" pitchers still seems strange to me; I remember when 10 was the standard and some teams went with 9
in the McDowell vs Lolich meant them and them only for nearly if not the whole game