The Guardians have placed veteran first baseman Carlos Santana on outright waivers, Ken Rosenthal and Zack Meisel of The Athletic report. The 39-year-old switch-hitter is playing on a one-year, $12MM contract and still has about $2.13MM of that sum yet to be paid out. Any team that claims Santana would need to take on the entirety of that remaining sum. Santana has not been … [Read more...] about Guardians Place Carlos Santana On Outright Waivers
Guardians To Promote Parker Messick
The Guardians list left-hander Parker Messick as the probable starter for tomorrow’s series finale in Arizona. He’ll go opposite Brandon Pfaadt in his major league debut. Cleveland has an opening on the 40-man roster after outrighting reliever Trevor Stephan last week. They’ll only need to make an active roster transaction tomorrow. Messick, 24, was a second-round pick out of … [Read more...] about Guardians To Promote Parker Messick
MLB, ESPN Nearing Deal Involving MLB.TV And In-Market Rights For Five Clubs
Major League Baseball and ESPN are seemingly going to continue their relationship but with a new shape. Andrew Marchand of The Athletic reports that the league and the network have an agreement in place which would give ESPN the right to sell all out-of-market games digitally. These rights have previously been sold by the league to consumers as the MLB.TV package. Under the … [Read more...] about MLB, ESPN Nearing Deal Involving MLB.TV And In-Market Rights For Five Clubs
Guardians Designate Carlos Hernández For Assignment
The Guardians announced that right-hander Carlos Hernández has been designated for assignment. That’s the corresponding move to select left-hander Parker Messick, a move which was previously reported. Hernández, 28, was claimed off waivers from the Tigers three weeks ago. Since then, he has tossed seven innings for the Guards, allowing three earned runs but with three walks and … [Read more...] about Guardians Designate Carlos Hernández For Assignment
Guardians Outright Trevor Stephan
The Guardians passed right-handed reliever Trevor Stephan through outright waivers and assigned him to Triple-A Columbus, per Tim Stebbins of MLB.com. That removes him from the 40-man roster, but Stephan will remain with the organization. While Stephan could have rejected the assignment, doing so would’ve meant forfeiting the remainder of this season’s $2.3MM salary, all of … [Read more...] about Guardians Outright Trevor Stephan