{"id":519687,"date":"2026-01-14T10:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/519687\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T10:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:16:14","slug":"nn-carter-kieboom-invited-to-spend-spring-with-guardians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/519687\/","title":{"rendered":"N&#038;N: Carter Kieboom invited to spend spring with Guardians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Fans have been begging the Guardians to make noise in free agency, so they <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/timstebbins.bsky.social\/post\/3mccwjugafc2u\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed Carter Kieboom<\/a>.<br \/>No, not that kind of noise!!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kieboom batted 8 times for the 2025 Angels, and still managed to be worth \u20130.3 bWAR. He spent 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2023 with the Nationals, where he was also worth negative bWins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Maybe the Guards will continue knocking things off our want list by adding Jeff Powerhitter, who batted .207 with 2 home runs for the Long Island Ducks this past year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u2022 The Royals are planning on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/47599322\/sources-royals-move-fences-kauffman-stadium\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shrinking the dimensions<\/a> of their playing field because their hitters find baseball too difficult.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u2022 The Marlins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/01\/marlins-to-trade-ryan-weathers-to-yankees.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">traded<\/a> Ryan Weathers to NYY. I\u2019ve always been highly skeptical of him, but I have no idea who <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/bnightengale.bsky.social\/post\/3mcdsnsoldk2m\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">these 4 prospecs are<\/a> so I\u2019ll hold off on judging this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u2022 Andy Ibanez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/sports\/mlb\/dodgers-officially-sign-veteran-infielder-dfa-recent-acquisition-11353889\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed<\/a> with 1 of the 2 teams that signs free agents. Can you guess which one?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u2022 The Cardinals <a href=\"https:\/\/sny.tv\/articles\/mets-ryne-stanek-signing-with-cardinals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed<\/a> Ryne Stanek<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans have been begging the Guardians to make noise in free agency, so they signed Carter Kieboom.No, not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,135,51,2565,538,4,38553],"class_list":{"0":"post-519687","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-clevelandguardians","12":"tag-guardians","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-morning-news-and-notes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115892937175380932","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519687","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=519687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}