Cleveland Sports Forum

Treat of the season is to watch Kwan!

day in, day out, at bat, on the bases, in the field. I really should top Jose as the Team MVP

Cold reality had Shaw as the odd man out. I don't disagree with it but it is sad.

Watching th3 game tonight, down 3-0. Not afraid of that, we are the Guardians.

Plesac is toast as far as I am concerned. While I am at it, not sold on Arias either, I feel he is all about Gabe, kind of like the anti Kwan. Miller will have a hard time making the cut out of spring training next year as well.

Feel good about our chances to have a long run in the playoffs, and perhaps ever a WS crown.

I never get too optimistic but certainly enjoy the team and they are unconcerned about any predictions of their demise.

They need to trim 2 off the current 28 man roster. Will they keep all 3 catchers? Apparently. Arias seems very capable of playing bad defense all over the field [like Miller] but I guess he stays. Then makes Will Benson expendable. Kirk McCarty will go, leaving Morris and Plesac for long relief. But I would be happy to leave Plesac off and say good riddance. It;s tough to have a 3-12 record for a team 20 games over .500; some bad luck, some bad pitching.

Great post civ but I actually think Plesac will be fine in 2-3 inning stints.

Ok I know that's a lot but the way I read it is the Guardians are about league average as far as size of analytics staff.

Looks like over a 2 year period.

perhaps that chart does not measure quality as well as quantity

My Plesac feelings are as much subjective as they are objective. He seems to be poor in team-work skills

PD story says Civale wo't be on the roster for the first series; I guess that makes sense, so they need to trim only one player to get to 26. McCarty or Benson I assume, probably the pitcher.

Right - Civale will pitch game 1 if they survive the upcoming series and it goes all 3. So they are saving him for that.

If I have this right, Cleveland's 26 man first round roster includes 7 rookies:

IF Arias
OF Kwan Gonzalez Brennan Benson
P McCarty [what McCarty not Morris? I guess they want a lefty and/or someone to pitch in a blowout]
C Naylor

and I think 8 or 9 second year guys including almost the entire bullpen
IF Giminez and Miller
P Clase Karinchak Stephan Sandlin Morgan Hentges and I think McKenzie still qualified as a rookie after 33 innings in 2020

McCarty not Morris is the last man on the roster.

Has anyone heard how tampa steve and Lou weathered the hurricane?