{"id":34782,"date":"2025-05-17T21:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T21:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/34782\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T21:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T21:48:09","slug":"guardians-activate-saturday-nights-starter-option-another-pitcher-to-make-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/34782\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians activate Saturday night\u2019s starter, option another pitcher to make room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TEZIBBY7N5DERFIMGA6WCJ57GM\">CINCINNATI \u2014 Right-hander Slade Cecconi was cleared to start against the Reds on Saturday night when the Guardians activated him from the injured list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"OMI65EO5XJEYRAOYERFRGAD6OE\">Zak Kent, another right-hander, was optioned to Triple-A Columbus to make room for Cecconi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"X37JWGRX35BCLNDXLW5QSKPU2E\">Cecconi has been on a rehab assignment at Columbus after recovering from a left oblique injury, which caused him to open the season on the injured list. He made three starts at Columbus, going 0-2 with a 4.85 ERA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"FAB7VWAMEZCGBHTAEY3ZFMZ7UU\">The Guardians acquired Cecconi from Arizona as part of the Josh Naylor deal in December. He has made three starts against the Reds, going 0-1 with a 4.32 ERA (eight earned runs in 16 2\/3 innings).<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"N5N2GHL4YNGX7AGOLVLZ6Z6SGE\">Kent has bounced between Cleveland and Columbus three times this year. He\u2019s made three appearances with the Guardians, posting a 5.40 ERA, while striking out six and walking three in five innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI \u2014 Right-hander Slade Cecconi was cleared to start against the Reds on Saturday night when the Guardians&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,135,51,3188,2565,538,9902,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-34782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-guardians","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-cleveland-guardians","11":"tag-cleveland-guardians-2025","12":"tag-clevelandguardians","13":"tag-guardians","14":"tag-milwaukee-brewers-2025","15":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114525379514122994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34782","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=34782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}