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to come as after Friday's rainout between the Guardians and the Yankees. Two games
today, a noon start for Game one, the makeup game from last night,
and then a six to ten first pitch for the regularly scheduled ball game
between the Guardians and the Yankees. So it should be a fun day of
baseball here at Progressive Field. As two of the top teams in baseball through
the first two weeks of the season, we'll have at it. The Yankees
with baseball's best record at ten and three and the Guardians right behind at nine
and three. Heading into the year, or heading into the week, we
should say, as they get going here today against each other, coming up
a little bit later on in our show today, we'll hear from Rob Sorfolio,
the director of player development for the Guardians of Farm report from Rob.
Also Sandy Allen and Corey Kluber. We talked to both on opening day,
the home opener here on Monday, which was quite the afternoon and on into
the evening. And we'll hear from Sandy who's been through a lot of those
in his time as a Cleveland player and also a coach. And of course
Corey Kluber with a tremendous career and he stopped by as well. And we'll
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Guardians Weekly. Jim Rosenhouse along with you from Progressive Field in downtown Cleveland on
the first homestand of the new season. And it started on Monday. What
a day. As the eclipse took place mid afternoon and it was indeed a
total eclipse. It looked like midnight at the ballpark when things really took hold
a little bit after three o'clock and then it was time for baseball for the
first time for the Guardians, coming off a tremendous road trip to start the
season. They had Tristan McKenzie on the mound against the White Sox, and
he got off to a nice start, along with a little help from his
defense. Third ending Moncata a single to life center back in the first you'll
again bad left handed hips a double play ball to third Ramirez underhack glove to
second one relay him and us turns the ending ending double play five four three
and McKenzie's kept the socks off the board through three scoreless right off the lake
front. In the bottom half of the third inning, it was the White
Sox defense that helped the Guardians get on the scoreboard. Guardian sands a team
banning three point twenty nine with men in's scoring position. Rocchio banks it too
short off shoemake Cam's into center around third, coming home him and us throut
of the plate got in time heading to second is Rochio won nothing Guardians.
And in the fourth end the Guardians were trying to add to their lead,
with the bases loaded and Andre si Menez at the plate the two inside Did
it hit him? Yes, it did. The master of getting hit by
pitches does it again, and that'll drive in a run. Naylor comes down
the line from third as him Minez already this season has been hit by pitches
five times, and this one drives in a run to nothing Cleveland. Then
in the fifth someome thunder from Jose Ramirez. Here's the two to two,
swung on and launched high and deep right failed HOI run, Jose Ramirez hod
that'll get him cracking. The sellout crowd on its feet as Ramirez makes it
for nothing Cleveland. Number two for Jose Ramirez and a perennial MVP candidate comes
through. In the home opener, McKenzie shut down the Socks through five and
two thirds, then out of the bullpen, Tim Herron, Hunter Gaddis and
Kate Smith kept the shutout going, setting the table for a annual class.
In the ninth one ball two strikes. Everybody on their feet at the corner
of Carnegie and Ontario. Guardians, trying to win their fifth straight, go
to eight and two and stay atop the central the pitch swing the ass ball
game class a another perfect performance, unscored upon in five outings and the Guardians
pitched their third shutout in ten games. And the home opener is a success
for nothing. Cleveland blanks the White Sox. It's a real nice win on
the home opener for the Guardians at Progressive Field on Monday Tuesday, it was
the White Sox who were seven to five winners. Despite a furious comeback by
the Guardians, who are down five. Nothing came all the way back to
tie it, only to see the White Sox score two in the eighth to
win it by a seven to five. Final Saint story on Wednesday, Guardians
and White Sox wrapping up their series and the sockscot The scoring started early first
inning, two runs there, then a three run third on a three run
home run by Gavin Sheets, and there was two nights in a row.
The Guardians found themselves down by a five nothing deficit early, but just like
the night before, they began to chip away in the fourth inning, this
time with Josh Naylor at the plate. Here's the one one swung on and
there's a high fly ball deep right center field. Way back there, hold
Rod Nayler. He continues to torture the White Sox and the Guardians are on
the board. It's now five to one Chicago, sixth time in his career
that he's gone deep against Chicago. This is the fortieth game he's played against
the White Sox and the beat osan for Naylor. Man does he have their
number? Then later on in the fourth inning, that was Josh's younger brother
Bo's turn. Here's bow Naylor with a runner at first, two down five
to one, White Sox leading, and Naylor drives one deep center. This
has a chance and it goes home run Bow Nailer. Both Nailors go deep
this inning and it's now a five to three game, Guardians inching closer.
The Guardians added one more in the fifth thanks to Stephen Kuan. Here's the
old one and he launches one high in the air, deep right center field.
This has a chance and there it goes home run Kwan and the homer
barrage continues for the Guardians. Kwan, with his second on the season,
makes it a one run ball game, five to four Chicago. It was
still a one run game in the sixth inning when the Guardians loaded the bases
with David Fry pinch hitting in a crucial spot, Josh Naylor at third,
Will Brennan at second, Ramon Loreano at first. One out in the sixth
five to four Chicago, the pitch in it hit him, tie ball game
at five. Tanner Banks hits David Fry with the first pitch and the game
is tied at five. And for the second night in a row, the
White Sox can't hold on to a five nothing lead. Chicago turned a big
double play to work out of that gym and keep the game tied at five,
and then the outstanding work from the Guardian's bullpen continued to keep the White
Sox off the board. The pitch swung on a tamper to third, Ramirez
charges gloves, throws get out of it. What a job by Clause with
a fist pump, and what a smart play at short by Rochio and bad
base running by the Socks to x ratings we went and in the tenth.
The White Sox got the automatic base runner home in the top half of the
inning to take a six to five lead, but the Guardians answered in the
bottom half of the tenth as once again it was Josh Naylor coming through in
the clutch. Now the one oher swung on drill deep left center field,
Ben and Tendy packets over his head, hits the base of the wall,
He falls down into scores henans into second with the game tying double is Nailer
and the Sacks pitch to Nailor and get burn. Will Brennan followed with a
walk, then a single from Ramon Loreano loaded the bases, giving Bone Nailor
a chance to walk it off. Here's the one two pitch, a swing
of the line right, pace it right center, game winner Bone Nailer.
Tyler Freeman comes home from third. They'll be a mobbing between first and second
as Bone Nailer gets Cleveland's first walk off with the season, and the Guardians,
for the first time in twenty two years, have won their first four
series to start a season. They did it the hard way tonight. They
win it in ten innings by a final score of seven to six. After
the game, both Josh and Bo together spoke to the assembled media about the
memorable night at the ballpark. For me personally, every time I'm in the
locker room, I get to be able to hang out with my brother,
it's a new special moment. Every time out there on the field, you
know, end evating I could throw a ball over to him, it's special.
So for me, you know, it's a it's a new part of
the journey every day and I'm super grateful to be able to share these experiences
with him. Oh and I dreamt of as dreamt of it as a kid.
I knew would come true eventually if you just keep working hard. Not
really a shock to me. I just I kind of believed in it from
day one, and I knew that if we just continue to work hard at
our craft, we'd either played against each other or play with each other.
And you know, God's good and we're able to play with each other.
So it's been great so far. And you know, do you guys know
today it was national siblings there. I did not a clear idea, So
it's kind of crazy, you know, to be able to you know,
share a home run in the same aim with them. So quite a night
on Wednesday night, which turned out to be the last time the Guardians played
this week as they had a scheduled off day on Thursday, and then last
night's game Friday night rained out against the Yankees. What a weather day that
was, as we had high winds, heavy rains and just a soaked field.
So again they'll give it a try on Saturday with a day night doubleheader
on tap a twelve ten first pitch for game one, six' ten for
the nightcap. Now, it was a fun week of baseball at Progressive Field,
but a damper on the hot start for the Guardians was the announcement earlier
in the week about Shane Bieber having to undergo Tommy John surgery after just two
starts this season. He was terrific off spring. His two starts tremendous,
a pair of six innings of shutout baseball with twenty strikeouts, but the elbow
just couldn't hold. And it was announced late last week that Tommy John surgery
was in the offing. He had that surgery on Friday, but Shane was
on hand on Monday for the home opener. But what an ovation the fans
gave Shane when Tom Hamilton was introducing the entire roster. This man a unanimous
American League Cy Young Award winner, the second best winning percentage in the history
of this organization in historical first two starts, twelve innings, no runs allowed,
twenty strike, one walk, and folks, the best is yet to
com number fifty seven, same fever. Just a tremendous moment before the home
opener, and prior to that, Shane met with the media and talked about
the injury during his Monday press conference. So how were we able to make
it even two starts with your elbows screaming like that? Probably a combination of
factors, the first being wishful thinking. You know, you hope it's starting
us as pictures, as athletes, we play through things and we get through
things. But ultimately, when it's a something as crucial as a ligament,
something as finicky, whatever word you want to use, you have to address
it. So I felt it probably in the middle innings in Oakland, ignored
it a little bit, choked it up to opening day soreness, cold throughout
my work throughout the week was was trying to address it as best as I
could, knowing that it was sort of an all or nothing situation with when
you bring all factors in both as a team and and for me personally that
you know, if it was damage to my to my ligament, that it
was either either it goes away or or surgery. And so kind of got
the feedback that I needed especially and I need I also need more feedback going
into that Seattle start because it's hard to replicate game intensity and high intensity throws.
So going into Seattle, it was it was pretty much from from warm
up one to pitch eighty three. So it was an emotional time, but
the end results make things a little bit more confusing and a little bit harder,
but you know, it is what it is, and we move on
and I'm having to have answers and looking forward happy to you know, soon
enough pitch uninhibited and continue to put up results You've never really not had baseball.
Is that what you're talking about in terms of processing your emotions on and
going forward. Yeah, yeah, baseball will be there. It's I will
be here. It's easy to keep things in perspective. Like I said,
it's just an injury that I'll get past. And uh, like I said,
I'm not the first person, won't be the last. I think one
of the things that is a bit more difficult for me is that throughout the
off season and in spring training, like I did figure some things out and
my performance was getting back to the place that I knew I was capable of,
and I was falling back in love with pitching, and I was having
a lot of fun in This group's great and they're capable of so much with
or without me. I know I'll be a part of it, but just
in a different capacity. So you know, there's a lot of emotions that
go into it. But that's one of them. But an emotional time for
one of the best pitchers that has rolled through Cleveland, and that is saying
a lot based on the rich pitching history, Hall of famers that have come
through here and Cy Young Award winners and Bieber certainly one of those is Cy
Young season of twenty twenty, and I'll tell you what it looked like he
was on track to be in the conversation again this season, but now a
long rehab follows and we don't know what the future holds for Shane Bieber in
terms of when and where he will pitch again, but best of luck to
him as he goes through that rehab process. Well we come back, we'll
hear from another Cleveland cy Young Award winner, Corey Klueber, was in town
for the opener on Monday to throw out a first pitch with Michael Brantley,
and we'll also visit with Sandy Alamar Junior, his twenty fifth home opener in
a Cleveland uniform. That comes your way next on the Cleveland Clinic. Guardians
Radio Network. Welcome back to Guardians Weekly. Jim Rosenhouse back with you from
Progressive Field in downtown Cleveland. What a day it was on Monday here at
Progressive Field. The eclipse in the afternoon, then the home opener in the
late afternoon, a five o'clock start to make way for the eclipse and allow
everyone to enjoy that. Before the game, we caught up with someone who's
been a part of twenty five home openers. This is twenty sixth season in
the Cleveland uniform. There was one where he was not on the roster at
the start of the season due to injury, but as a player and a
coach, Sandy Alamar Junior the most popular ever to put on a Cleveland uniform,
and he says it's always special to take the field for the first time
in new season in front of the home crowd, the old fund. Those
who say that they get used to it, they're lying. Every opening day
is very special. You got new sometimes you got new players that it means
a lot to them. So like as a coach or as a player,
you should enjoyed opening the And no matter what role you've been in, whether
it was as a player and now as a coach, for your fifteenth season
now with the team, I'm gonna guess you'll get one of the loudest ovations
of anybody when you go to the line. And what does that mean to
you that fans still hold you in such high regard. Well, I'm an
honor to be part of a Digel organization and the fact that they give me
an ovation like that is you know, it's an honor I really cherish.
I really love the city of Cleveland, and I want to win some I
want to win something big here as a part of the organization, I think,
and I really, you know, I appreciate it. It's very appreciative.
My family does too. All right, let's look back at some home
openers for you. First off today, have you ever been a part of
one where there's been an eclipse as part of the day, A full solar
eclipse? Well no, no, full, no, no, one and
only. And I've been part of cold super cold ones, blizzer ones,
sunny days, seventy degrees in April, but never something like this. This
is very special. And we were part of a partially eclipse a few years
back. But this is gonna be something interesting. I mean, I heard
that the downtown area is gonna be uh crowded, So looking forward to the
opportunity to see something that doesn't happen often. What do you remember about the
very first home opener that you were a part of in Cleveland? Yes,
we got no doubt. You woun't hear me? Huh yeah, we we
got snowed out. I remember Ton Kan Diorty was pitching that game and were
playing the Yankees, and we played like three or four inning. But after
that it starts knowing and we got we got canceled. How about the first
one at Progressive Field then Jacobs Field, Well that was the Randy Johnson almost
perfect game. I remember that Bob Feller came down and after the game it's
like, so upset could have a hit Randy Johnson. I say, Bob,
that guy was throwing a one hundred miles an hour ninety seven. The
background wasn't very good. It's a lot of shadows, so Randy was dealing
until I got that hit the Rye field. But you know, it's just
like we ended up winning the game. It was a very exciting game.
But yeah, it was almost a perfect game that they and for the team,
coaches, players. You've been at it here for ten days already this
season, but is there still that thrill when you get back home for the
first time and the play in front of the home fans. Absolutely. Sometime
when you start on the roads kind of blends with that spring training because spring
training, you know our homes, you were like playing somewhere else. So
when you start on the road and you feel comfortable for coming out of spring
training, so it kind of blends a little bit but it makes it more
excited to come home after a long road trip. After very careful math,
we figured out number twenty six for you to when you first start, do
you ever think you're gonna be in it that long and then have that many
fun days at the ballpark. It's interesting because when I retire, I was
gonna take a couple of years old. I remember in two thousand and seven
I kind of went to play Triple A. After so many years in the
big leagues. I was kind of like didn't make the team out of spring
training with a match because I went there to spring training late and they asked
me to come in. I was thinking retiring in all six, but then
I asked they asked me if I wanted to go Triple A. I said,
well, I'll go there as a player coach because I would like to
learn how to coach and hopefully managing the minor leave something. And then they
called me up because I was doing very well on Triple A. And then
I finished to see someone in the big leagues. And the year after they
called me back to see if I want to go off an invite and I
say no, no, I'm done. So a week later after that I
say no. They called me to see if I wanted to be a Bi
league coach, and I'm like, WHOA. Opportunities like that don't show up
very often, So I took on the challenge and the Guardians are a better
team for that, no question about it. Sandy enjoyed the day today.
I know it's always fun. Thank you very much at Sandy Alomar Junior and
yes once again. Sandy received one of the loudest ovations during the announcement of
the roster coaches, players and others by Tom Hamilton prior to the home opener
on Monday. Also on hand for the home opener former two times Cy Young
Award winner for Cleveland Corey Klueber, who was there with Michael Brantley, his
teammate on some great teams twenty fifteen, sixteen, seventeen eighteen. They threw
out first pitches prior to Monday's game. Corey announced his retirement during the off
season, and we talked to him about that and how he knew it was
the right time to make that decision. Yeah, I would say that I
kind of had a feeling before I made the decision for certain that that was
kind of the road I was going to go down. But I think that
there's still the emotions of knowing you're not going to play anymore, kind of
the uncertainty of what's next and things like that. But I do think that
you know something I could kind of see coming when you look at your career.
We got the best of your career in terms of fans seeing you at
the top of your game. Probably an easy question is what do you remember
most about your time in Cleveland? But it seemed like there were so many
good moments and good seasons for you just that general time here. Is that
something you'll always look back on and feel good about. Yeah, for sure.
I mean I think, even aside from the on field stuff, you
know, to play somewhere as long as I was fortunate enough to hear isn't
the norm nowadays at all. And I did it with a lot of guys
who were in the same situation, so that in itself was unique. I
think, you know, I had the opportunity, my family had the opportunity
to build a lot of relationships with with good friends, just because we were
all here for such a long extend amount of time. And you're here on
opening day with Michael Brantley and those teams, the one that went to the
World Series and some playoff runs. What was it like in that clubhouse coming
to work every day, if you could even call it work, when when
it's that type of situation, it was a lot of fun. You know.
I think that maybe even before we got good, so to speak,
I think that it was still a good environment to come to, just because
all the guys enjoyed being around each other. You know. I think that
makes the grind of one hundred and six to two games a lot easier,
the ups and downs you're going to go through, kind of easier to weather
the storm. And everybody enjoys being around each other, and like you said,
it doesn't feel like you're coming to work every day necessarily. Corey Klueber
joining us. He was in town opening day to throw out a first pitch
along with Michael Brandley. Corey, I don't know if late bloomer is the
right word, but what you did not reach the big leagues at a young
age. It took you a while to get here. What clicked in for
you that allowed you to make a jump that when you got to the major
leagues you had some some sustained success probably a lot of things, you know,
I think for me personally, first and foremost, I think just the
ability to have good enough fastball command to set up other pitches was the big
separator for me physically, and then I think that kind of unlocks the mental
side as well, to where you you believe in yourself more, and then
that has kind of a trickle effect. I don't know if I could really
pinpoint one specific thing. I think there's probably a lot of different things that
add up together to to make me that made me maybe be ready at the
level that I was when I got here, as opposed to if I would
have been called up, you know, two three four years prior. I
don't I would have been able to to kind of withstand some of the struggles
that I went through early on. And legacy wise, people still talk about
Cleveland as a pitching organization and and there's a certain way that starting pitchers,
especially seem to go about their business. And you had a lot to do
with that when you were here and passing that down when you see it continue,
and I'm not sure how closely you follow it now, but they're still
churning out good starting pitching. Uh do you think about that that maybe the
impact you had on some others specifically like a Shane Bieber. I mean,
I I guess it somebody that I actually played with, like Beabs. I
think I could, I could appreciate that, But then I think it then
it then it's it goes the credit goes to him then for for then you
know, helping out other guys and so forth and so on. You know,
obviously I hate to hear the news about him this week, but yeah,
I think that you know, he's God just must be proud of in
terms of that, Corey. Great to see a wonderful career. I know
it's never easy when it is time to move on, but I'm sure some
good things are had whatever you decide to do. And thanks lot for coming
by. Yeah, thanks Ethie. Fun to catch up with Corey Klueber in
best of luck to him in retirement. You get the feeling he got the
most out of that right arm, and certainly here in Cleveland we saw the
best of those years and quite a stretch it was in a Cleveland uniform for
Kluber. Stay with us when we came back. We'll hear from Rob's orfolio
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state lawe none. The window states the pitch swings and sends one high deep
to right. Jankowski back track wall. It is gone a to run home
run to right by Chase the later. You can't do anything more than what
Chase the latter has done this spring to open people's eyes and send the message
that hey, I may not be that far away. Welcome back to Guardians
Weekly. It's our final segment from Progressive Field in downtown Cleveland. Rob sortfolio
is the director of player development for the Guardians, and in the weekly Farm
Report, we'll get to the Triple A Columbus roster shortly a preview there.
But first we had a chance to visit with Rob at the tail end of
spring training and we asked him about a player who stood out tremendously during spring
training, prospect Chase de Lauder, the outfielder who saw plenty of time in
big league games and performed extremely well, and Rob says they couldn't be more
excited about what the future holds for the latter. That was awesome. I
think everyone in the organization, Chase included, was really fired up about the
spring that he had, and not just because the way he performed. I
think even more importantly is getting to spend some real time with our major league
staff, getting to spend some real time with major league players, like,
you know, for these guys in the minor leagues that have never done morning
work next to Stephen Kwan or you know, listen to the morning meetings and
some of the messages from Voter like just the experiential impact that that has for
you know, hopefully when these guys do matriculate to the big leagues, like
they're that much more comfortable. They know the guys in the locker room,
they know the staff. So, you know, coming into spring training,
that was what we wanted for this group. He wasn't technically in major league
spring training, that is correct, but we had a group of of you
know, younger minor league players that we expected to go partake in the practices
for the first couple of weeks and then when there were game opportunities, you
know, we had a group of guys that were ready to go in there
and fill needs. And that was the plan with Chase, I think in
a really cool way. He obviously performed the way he did, and there
were opportunities in the outfield and the major league staff you know, wanted him
out there, and so he earned every bit of that. It was really
exciting to watch, and you know, I think he you know, really
set himself up for hopefully a great twenty twenty four as a result, and
with everything that happened good for him. He'd come back from the ballpark each
game maybe he hit a home run, maybe he had a double, a
couple of hits, and he went back to the minor leage. They had
a locker over there, correct, yep, locker in the minor league side
the entire time. But I think, you know, just talking to him
after the fact of now you know he's fully back and you know, minor
league, minor league spring training, and he took the right things out of
that. I don't think he cared where his locker was. I think he
cared that you know, he got a chance to, like we said,
you know, practice next to Kwannie and the rest of these guys in the
outfield, and work with J. T. Maguire, spend time around Albion
Voter and just really feel it what it takes and what it looks like to
be an impact major leaguer. And I hope that that really sets him up
for an easy transition whenever that day comes in the future and we're in a
day and age where there's no secrets for fans anymore. They know what's going
on. They see the stats, and they wonder why can't he be on
the major league team right out of spring training. Explain where he's at in
his career and why he needs to start at Double A this season. Yeah,
And I think, you know, those narratives are always fun, Like
I think if we put him in a major league game, as we saw,
he could go compete in a major league game today, and ultimately,
these things are really difficult. There's never a black and white this is the
right answer, yes, No, this is where the player needs to go.
What we try and do our best at is just assess where the player
is. You know, came into last year in a shortened season, battled
injury the first half, showed up in Lake County and was fantastic, got
a small taste of Double A last year for about a week, played in
the Fall League, did a great job, and then came out and really
burst onto the scene for you know, a lot of fans that probably knew
his name but weren't tracking maybe to the degree of skill set that he had.
And ultimately we just we feel right now and chatting with him using all
the people across the org, that he's got a great opportunity in Double A
to go out there and play a lot of center field, a lot of
right field, and hopefully do some of the same things that we just saw
over the last month and things will take care of itself after that. But
we feel like that's our best opportunity for him to play the positions defensively,
that he needs to continue to work and and get better. And also just
you know, our best guess at what the right the location is out of
the gates, knowing that this is a guy that's really talented, and when
you have guys that are really talented like that, oftentimes they show you quickly
you know what the following steps should be. Believe it or not. This
is the farm report and not the chase. A lot of report. But
it's been fun to watch him play, and obviously we could talk about him
for a long time. But let's get to the teams in the system.
Columbus will start first, and let's start with the pitching at Columbus. It's
interesting because there's some injury issues going on, so so your rotation might not
have as many familiar names. Yep, yep, that's correct. You know,
we have a lot of young players on our forty men in general on
this roster. I think a guy that fans saw in spring training and throw
really well. We were excited about, you know, just where Joey is
with everything until you know, unfortunately had a little bit of a hamstring flare
up here just over the last couple of days ahead of the team breaking,
so he'll stick behind. He'll work through a little bit of a rehab progression
here in Arizona with the hopes of you know, a couple of weeks down
the road he'll rejoin that group. And then you know, will Dion,
a guy that really dominated in Double A, actually started the last year's season
in High A, but was one of the best pitchers in the Eastern League
last year, will be on that team with a collection of guys that are
going to go have a great opportunity to start. A guy in Gillespie that
we got in the minor league Rule five, and then a couple other internal
guys that have really just continued to develop. Some guys we brought in like
Aller and then yeah, like a name like Hunter Stanley that has continued to
just really get better and stay healthy over the course of his career that you
know, have an awesome opportunity ahead of him and position player wise, these
are going to be that are familiar to fans who are listening to splaying training
games. Man, it's a lot of good talent that seems to be getting
closer by the day. Yeah, and that's that's really the message we left
those guys with is you're that one phone call away. So you know,
spring training is such an interesting time for this Triple A group in particular.
No one wants to be told they're going to Triple A. So you know
how we talked about this with our guys of what are the things that they
can do to take their game to the next level. So in that phone
call does happen that they are the clear cut choice to be that the person
on the receiving end of that phone call of we have a major league opportunity.
So an exciting young group that I think these guys have been around for
so many years that oftentimes, like people in the building and maybe the fans
as well, just forget the age of Noel and Brito and Tana and even
guys like Daniel Schneman who burst onto the scene a little bit, you know
from a public sense here in spring training, what a talented group. And
then you got you Manzardo, You've got Jonathan Noriguez, like just a handful
of guys that are that one step away that hopefully get off to a great
start here in Triple out of the gates and make that make that phone call
that much that much easier to make for voter, whoever it is on the
other end of the line. When a major league opportunity pops up to get
some early outings in Triple A, that's Rob Sorfolio, the director of player
development for the Cleveland Guardians, and that's going to do it for our show
this week. Thanks as always to Brian Motse for putting together our show each
and every week. Until next week when we join you right back here in
downtown Cleveland, a progressive field as a new home stand will have begun for
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