{"id":1200,"date":"2025-04-29T00:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T00:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/1200\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T00:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T00:12:09","slug":"triston-mckenzie-accepts-outright-assignment-with-guardians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/1200\/","title":{"rendered":"Triston McKenzie Accepts Outright Assignment With Guardians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mckentr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-04-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Triston McKenzie<\/a>, who was designated for assignment by the Guardians a week ago, has passed through waivers unclaimed. He had the right to elect free agency but has accepted his outright assignment to Triple-A Columbus. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tim_stebbins\/status\/1916987764429508904\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tim Stebbins of MLB.com<\/a> was among those to pass along the news.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland designated McKenzie for assignment last week. That the lanky right-hander cleared waivers points to how far his stock has fallen as he\u2019s battled injuries over the past couple seasons. McKenzie is a former top prospect who seemed to break out as a high-end starter in 2022. He posted a 2.96 ERA with nearly a strikeout per inning over 31 appearances three years ago. He seemed to be a mid-rotation arm at the very least with a chance to develop into a #1 or #2 starter.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Triston McKenzie, who was designated for assignment by the Guardians a week ago, has passed through waivers unclaimed.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,4,460],"class_list":{"0":"post-1200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-triston-mckenzie"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114418361593625473","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}