News and Notes for Monday, June 30th, 2025
Things are dire with the Cleveland Guardians.
They lost another shutout, 7-0, in which they made two errors and had three hits. It was their fourth loss in a row. It included more bullpen meltdowns for Tim Herrin and Hunter Gaddis. Nicole had the unenviable job of recapping it here.
Gabriel Arias sustained an ankle sprain that looks like it’ll keep him out for a bit. Arias’s good defense and 88 wRC+ looks almost irreplaceable on this pathetic team, but Tommy will have a piece publishing here later today looking at what Rocchio has done in Columbus as that will likely be Arias’s replacement.
Zack Meisel had a great article last night looking at the state of the Guardians. Notably, he reported that Chris Antonetti admitted that their developmental staff is saying DeLauter is big league ready. Also, he included a quote from Vogt saying that “change means we don’t believe. We aren’t changing anything.” Which is manager-speak but remarkably silly manager speak. Managers shouldn’t portray change as a negative to their team or the media, because change is inevitable in life and in baseball. He needs to rethink how that came out.
The Cubs are next and I don’t believe DeLauter will be up until July 4th… or after the All-Star break. I also no longer believe in this team until they show me something markedly different from what they have shown for six weeks.
But I do believe Kevin Gausman should have a constant itch in the middle of his back he just can’t quite reach.