News and Notes for Monday, June 2nd, 2025
The Guardians have an off-day before opening a three-game series in New York against the Yankees. So, the next three days are days I will be pretending the Guardians don’t exist as I hate when they play the Yankees.
Watching a little of Dodgers-Yankees this weekend, I was reminded how deep my Yankee hate goes. I’d 100% percent prefer the Dodgers to beat them every time. My five teams I least want to win the World Series: White Sox, Twins, Tigers, Dodgers and… large gap… Yankees at the bottom.
The Guardians beat the Angels to win the weekend series; here’s your recap.
Jose Ramirez hit a home run:
Nolan Jones got another big RBI hit:
Gavin Williams looked great with increased cutter use, as predicted by our Matt Seese in a recent article:
Cleveland.com’s Terry Pluto says the Guardians are “in no rush” for DeLauter to get to Cleveland… as the Royals promote Jac Caglianone. Fortune favors the bold, smoke ‘em if you got ‘em, risk big, win big, etc.
MLB.com’s Tim Stebbins wrote about how Nolan Jones started simplifying his preparation and approach to find recent success. Now to see if his power returns!
Stebbins also talked to Chris Antonetti about Travis Bazzana’s approach to his oblique injury and his early season struggles.
AROUND MLB:
The Twins lost to the Mariners and the Tigers beat the Royals.