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Finally seems to be getting some life on that fastball.

Why is Jimenez playing back near the warning track against Kwan?

The Flying Molina Brothers could have made that closer.

Wasn't rolling every ball in BP over to the right side...hit a few line drives to LF apparently.

Sheets would at least K or get a sac fly there with his uppercut swing. Feels like we let them right back into the game again. Especially in CLE.

Sheets has to be in there. Wasn't even close at first. Ridiculous.

Long long swing by Grandal.

Abreu was at 24 homers and 92 RBIs this time last year. 2 RBIs and 1 XB hit last 16.

Anti Menechino pull hook.

Need these two runs.

Carl Edwards, Jr.

Vaughn didn't look like he had much of a plan up there. McKenzie always seems like his FB is 95-97 rather than 92-95 based on batters' reactions.

Madrigal, lol...

Hahn is a KW protege. Paddy is the same background, scouting by the eye. Why would it be shocking that he thought things were okay "as is" when nobody hold them accountable? TLR and Dave Stewart were the same way. It's like Grady Fuson vs. DiPodesta/Jonah Hill in Moneyball all over again. But two decades later.

On the road? That will just energize them...unless they're going to back it up offensively. McKenzie basically has six quality starts in his last eight outings. Sox roughed him up in their first game against them, though. Guardians now with 26 remaining home games, just 18 on the road. 22 comebacks in their final at bats, leads MLB.

Spending $2.5 on Yogurt Sanchez and another $1+ million on Cespedes instead of analytics seems very much like a Hahn problem. The Guardians can somehow manage it with 1/3rd or even 1/4 the budget.

Need to start counting the extra bases taken on balls hit into the outfield and stolen bases as well for every Guardians game. Will be in the 4-7 range every time out.

https://www.cleveland.com/guardians/2022/03/chris-antonetti-not-worried-about-sticks-stones-and-criticism-guardians-takeaways.html But it’s rare to hear opposing players criticize another team because of its small payroll. That was the case recently as Joc Pederson of the Giants and Dallas Keuchel of the White Sox took shots at the Guardians and other MLB teams with low payrolls. (Of course, months later, neither one of those guys is going to the playoffs with bigger market teams.) Last year was the first time in nine straight seasons that Cleveland did not have a winning record. It finished 80-82. “Our objectives haven’t changed,” said Antonetti. “If I was going to ask you what our payroll was in 2016, no one cares. What they remembered is that we played in Game 7 of the World Series. Our goal is how do we find a way to win that last game? “Each market has its own challenges. Our job and our responsibility is to find a way to overcome those challenges and win that last game.”

The analyst looks like he was brought in to suppress organizational health care costs and streamline employee benefits, lol.

Matt Koenig (Class of '99) Senior Derivatives Risk Manager, Director of Technology, Partner @ Geneva Capital, LLC Head Teaching Assistant - Intermediate Microeconomics @ University of Illinois https://www.linkedin.com/in/Wataru-ando White Sox analyst

Duncan will work in concert with Dan Fabian, Matt Koenig and Daniel Zien in a baseball operations department that has beefed up its analytics, ...pretty sure the other was a young woman that either was an intern or full hire. https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2021/1/13/22229032/white-sox-shelley-duncan-relishing-new-role

The White Sox? We can't even successfully determine whether a player needs to be ILed more often that not. Whatever's going on, there is something off with his leg drive/explosiveness to the plate. Giolito has always been the pitching equivalent of a Konerko or Quentin, he's way too much in his own head and overly analytical/hard onhimself.

More ads seeking ND interns?

Madrigal finally up to nearly a 600 ops with 3/3 so far...over 700ish for career.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — When Xzavion Curry took the mound in the second game of Monday’s doubleheader for the Guardians, he became the 14th player this season to make his big league debut with Cleveland. That ties Cleveland’s 2002 squad for the most debuts in a single campaign over the last 100 seasons. In 1922, Cleveland had 16 players debut. The Guardians have had more major league debuts than any other club in 2022. Four teams are tied with 12 debuts, including Pittsburgh, Oakland, Kansas City and Baltimore. Curry’s debut occurred in the Guards’ 116th game. Only three major league teams since 1917 have had more debuts within their first 120 contests: Miami (18 in 2020), the Yankees (15 in 2015) and the Brooklyn Dodgers (15 in 1944). Despite the influx of young talent, Cleveland remains in first place atop the American League Central Division, seven games over the .500 mark at 62-55. The Guardians will be the fifth club in MLB history since 1902 to have a winning record through 120 games while having 14 or more players make their debuts. Manager Terry Francona says he’s having fun going through the ups and downs of a season -- and a division race -- with the young group. “It’s gratifying when guys learn not just how to act, but how to work, and how to not just survive, but how to thrive,” Francona said. “We never want to lose a game, but if you sit back and think about it, they probably have to in order to take steps. That’s probably fair.” Fun fact: Arias became the first player since at least 1901 to reach base via an error in each of his first two career plate appearances. Thank you, Tim Anderson. https://www.cleveland.com/guardians/2022/08/ranking-the-cleveland-guardians-14-rookie-debuts-in-2022-so-far.html