News and Notes for Tuesday, July 15th, 2025
The Guardians completed their 2025 MLB draft work yesterday.
The team posted their Day two picks:
Day 2 has officially come to a close.#GuardsBall pic.twitter.com/9hb4qQzV8y
— Cleveland Guardians (@CleGuardians) July 14, 2025
And you can find a great breakdown of all these picks here. Here is a full list of Guardians’ picks from MLB.
Ryan Prager stood out to me as a player the Guardians should have a good shot of maximizing, but I will leave the analysis to the experts like our Brian Hemminger, Matt Seese and Zach F. My plate is a bit too full to pay attention to college and high school kids. We will have some more draft analysis forthcoming for you. As well as providing you links when various outlets publish their draft grades and so forth.
Here is Zack Meisel’s take on the first day of the draft for the Guardians. He also wrote up what the Guardians have to do make the playoffs in the second half.
Cleveland Guardians Prospective reported on Twitter that top Guardians draft picks Jace Laviolette had a small second hand surgery to clean up from his first surgery. So he probably won’t debut this season. Justin Lada of Locked on Guardians and Next Year in Cleveland reported that the Guardians have brought hitting coach Junior Betances up from Columbus to Cleveland to replace Jason Esposito who went to Vanderbilt. One can only hope that will help.
Cal Raleigh won the MLB Home Run Derby. Vinnie Pasquantino provided great running commentary.
Oh Im Cal Raleigh. I hit a lot of home runs. I hit from both sides of the plate. I play the most valuable position. I have one of the coolest nicknames in sports. Screw you man
— Vinnie Pasquantino (@VPasquantino) July 15, 2025
The MLB All-Star game is at 8PM tonight.