After Sunday’s news, more information will be rolling out as the legal process takes it course. Early yesterday, Luis Ortiz was arraigned, plead not guilty, and was released on a $500K bail. Emmanuel Clase will be arraigned at 2PM today.
Plenty of people are weighing in on the conversation. Zack Meisel released an article with the Athletic yesterday talking about how the cause and effect of this entire season rippled through the organization from top to bottom as the Guards made their historic 2nd half push.
As a bit of a shameless plug, the ladies at the Caught Lookin podcast recorded on Sunday mere hours after the 23 page indictment was made public. This weeks episode, released Monday, summarizes and discusses this whole debacle.
If you need a shorter episode to listen to, and if you want to hear from more than a fan angle, Selby is Godcast also released a quick reaction episode on the subject.
The GuardsInsider Twitter account posted the leaders in batting average for the Cleveland farm system. It is pretty exciting to see, not one, but two catchers on this list with Cooper Ingle and Bennett Thompson!
To keep with the pitching theme of today’s news and notes, Paul Skenes and Tarik Skubal were named the Cy Young Award winners. Skubal became the first AL pitcher to win back-to-back Cy Young Awards since Pedro Martinez won in 1999 and 2000.
Lots of awards will be handed out tonight. José Ramírez is up against Aaron Judge and Cal Raleigh for AL MVP. The All-MLB Teams, Hank Aaron Awards, Comeback Player of the Year Awards, Reliever of the Year Awards, Outstanding Designated Hitter, and Executive of the Year will all be awarded tonight.
José is also nominated for the MLBPAA Heart & Hustle award. You can vote for him here from now until Noon on Monday, November 17th. The award winner will be announced on November 20th.