{"id":395837,"date":"2025-10-23T13:43:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/395837\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T13:43:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:43:22","slug":"guardians-news-and-notes-clase-not-pitching-winter-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/395837\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians News and Notes &#8211; Clase Not Pitching Winter League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Shortly after it was announced that star closer Emmanuel Clase would be pitching in Venezuela for the Winter League, his plans were put to an end. Clase and Ortiz had expressed interest in pitching in the Dominican Winter League but were barred from participation by the Dominican League. Clase then was on his way to pitch in Venezuela, but required the club\u2019s permission to do so. Which he was not granted. There\u2019s no clear answer why the Guardians refused his participation, but it was certainly an interesting development. Evan Drellich wrote up more on the matter and can be read <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EvanDrellich\/status\/1981136230843895954\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Speaking of pitchers, Daniel Espino topped out at 100 mph today.<\/p>\n<p>Around the League (and beyond)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Women\u2019s Professional Baseball League officially announced the four teams kicking things off for the inaugural season. Similar to the PWHL (Professional Women\u2019s Hockey League) launch, it looks like the inaugural season will be sans mascots. Boston, LA, New York, and San Francisco will draft their teams sometime in November. Play for the WPBL is set to begin in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tony Vitello is hanging up Volunteer orange for another. Buster Posey, President of Baseball Operations for the San Francisco Giants, has officially named Vitello as the next manager for the club. Vitello will make history, becoming the first coach to go from college to MLB without previous pro ball experience. Vitello was formerly the head coach for the Tennessee Volunteers baseball team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This is great news on the \u201ckeep Craig Albernaz in Cleveland\u201d front.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Additional details on the Angels\u2019 new manager indicate that Kurt Suzuki was only given a one-year deal. (Sam Blum is the Angels correspondent for the Athletic)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The list of NL Silver Sluggers was announced yesterday. The AL list will be announced today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shortly after it was announced that star closer Emmanuel Clase would be pitching in Venezuela for the Winter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,135,51,38552,2565,538,4,38553],"class_list":{"0":"post-395837","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-news","12":"tag-clevelandguardians","13":"tag-guardians","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-morning-news-and-notes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115423779857923709","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395837","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=395837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}