Robert Edwards-USA TODAY Sports It’s still a bad team, but maybe not as bad as a couple weeks ago In the first of two “Didn’t the Guardians just play these guys?” series of the next week, the Guardians will play the Oakland Athletics in a three-game series beginning tonight. The Guardians enter play at 13-6 with a +37 run differential. They’ve got a team wRC+ of 108, starting pitcher FIP of 4.20, relief pitcher FIP of 2.78, and they are ninth in MLB with 3.3 Defensive WAR. The Oakland Athletics are 8-11 with a -22 run differential. They’ve got a team wRC+ of 83, starting pitcher FIP of 3.84, r ..read more

Eric Canha-USA TODAY Sports Initial Analysis of Ben Lively and Xzavion Curry With Shane Bieber set to receive Tommy John, Guardians’ fans got their first look in 2024 this week at Xzavion Curry and Ben Lively. Both Curry and Lively had strong debuts, with Curry going five scoreless innings with two hits, one walk and three strikeouts versus the Red Sox on Monday and Lively going five innings against the Red Sox on Wednesday and giving up two runs (one on a technicality because of an procedural balk call), three hits, and one walk and striking out seven. You can see pretty clearly from expected ..read more

Jeff Lange / USA TODAY NETWORK Let’s win a series The Guardians and Red Sox will finish their four game series with a game beginning at 1:35PM EST, Carlos Carrasco starting for Cleveland and Brennan Bernardino opening for the Red Sox with Cooper Criswell being the bulk guy (two guys with last names for thier first names and last names for their last names!) Here’s the Guardians’ lineup: Last one in Beantown!#ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/U0rILgM5Pw — Cleveland Guardians (@CleGuardians) April 18, 2024 Here’s the Red Sox lineup: Homestand finale. pic.twitter.com/R5c9sIGaMb — Red Sox (@RedSox ..read more

Cleveland Guardians minor league recap for Thursday, April 18, 2024 Columbus Clippers 9, Buffalo Bisons 12 (F/10) Box Score · Clippers fall to 7-9 Trailing 8-5 in the bottom of the ninth inning, Jose Tena rose to the occasion and blasted a game-tying three-run bomb to send the game into extra innings. #Guardians 23yr old INF prospect Jose Tena ties the game with a 3-run HR in the 9th inning for Columbus! The HR was his 2nd of the game both traveling 420 feet with this one coming off the bat at 105.8 mph. He's currently (3-5 2R 2HR 4RBI) at the plate.#ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/W2ukBNNQ3y ..read more

Photo by Jaiden Tripi/Getty Images News and Notes for Thursday, April 18, 2024 The Cleveland Guardians fell to the Boston Red Sox in the first shutout loss of the season. As aggressive as the Guardians have been so far this season, every once in a while another pitcher will come along and have a night. Boston RHP Tanner Houck was absolutely lights out in the Wednesday night matchup. Houck went 9.0 complete innings with 9 strikeouts and only 3 hits given up to Cleveland batters. The 3 hits came off of José Ramírez, Josh Naylor, and Gabriel Arias. Interestingly Vogt had Arias play the game in ce ..read more

Gregory Fisher-USA TODAY Sports Series win, meow? The Guardians and Red Sox will tangle at Fenway tonight, with newcomer Ben Lively facing off against Tanner Houck. Here’s the Guardians’ lineup: Tried a great local coffee shop earlier. Bostonians rave about it. If you're in the Boston area, stop by a place called Dunkin'.#ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/quM0Dnedfc — Cleveland Guardians (@CleGuardians) April 17, 2024 Here’s the Red Sox lineup: Let’s go, Guardians ..read more

Making predictions on where the Guardians will stand when June and the Summer weather rolls in Welcome all to the first edition of Fair or Foul, an article that I will do once every other month that will be full of predictions about the Guardos as we move forward in the season. This time, I will take a look at an aspect of every position group (starters, relievers, infielders, outfielders, hot dog venders, etc.) and make a prediction on what it will look like or where a player will be when the first of June rolls around. We’re 16 games into the Guardians season, and there are some good trends ..read more

Cleveland Guardians minor league recap for Wednesday, April 17, 2024 Columbus Clippers 7, Buffalo Bisons 4 Box Score · Clippers improve to 7-8 After falling behind 2-0, the Clippers scored seven unanswered runs on Tuesday, which was more than enough to pull off the victory. Jose Tena was the offensive star of the day, going 3-for-4 with a double and three runs batted in. Daniel Schneemann also had a big day at the dish, going 1-for-2 with a double and two walks while Juan Brito went 1-for-3 with a double, a walk and a hit by pitch. Myles Straw, Bryan Lavastida and Kyle Manzardo all had a sing ..read more

Paul Rutherford-USA TODAY Sports 4/16 recap & “4/17 news and notes” Guardians 10, Red Sox 7 Let’s get the elephant in the room out of the way at the start: The best record in baseball (12-5) belongs to….. the Cleveland Guardians. — Zack Meisel (@ZackMeisel) April 17, 2024 Getting there was a lot more complicated. Tanner Bibee pitched his best game of the young season, and the offense provided him with plenty of support. A 5-1 lead when your starting pitcher exits after 5 innings is great work by everybody involved. But the 6th inning was a mess. After the Guardians did nothing in the to ..read more

David Richard-USA TODAY Sports Let’s win three in a row Tanner Bibee vs. Garrett Whitlock tonight as the Guardians look to take the first two games of the series. Here’s the Guardians lineup: It is no longer Patriots' Day.#ForTheLand pic.twitter.com/mzEnJKj7Al — Cleveland Guardians (@CleGuardians) April 16, 2024 Here’s the Red Sox lineup: Tuesday's squad. pic.twitter.com/rZ82qjwX2r — Red Sox (@RedSox) April 16, 2024 Let’s go, Guardians ..read more