{"id":535319,"date":"2026-01-24T00:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/535319\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T00:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:31:15","slug":"guardians-news-and-notes-bazzana-ready-for-the-wbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/535319\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians News and Notes: Bazzana Ready for the WBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Travis Bazzana was mentioned in MLB Pipeline\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Fmilb%2Fnews%2Faustralia-2026-world-baseball-classic-preview%3Ft%3Dmlb-pipeline-coverage\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">preview for Australia\u2019s WBC team<\/a>. I found it funny that they acted like there was doubt if he would make the team\u2026 if Bazzana doesn\u2019t make Australia\u2019s team\u2026 we are in BIG trouble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Chas McCormick, another interesting right-handed hitter who can play center, signed a minor-league deal with the Cubs. But, we\u2019ve got Stuart Fairchild, so who cares? Right? Right?!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">MLB Pipeline will reveal their top 100 prospects tonight at 8pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I noticed that ATC, the final FanGraphs\u2019 projections system, released their 2026 projections. Only Jose Ramirez, Kyle Manzardo and Steven Kwan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fangraphs.com\/projections?type=atc&amp;stats=bat&amp;pos=all&amp;team=5&amp;players=0&amp;lg=all&amp;z=1769139917&amp;sortcol=16&amp;sortdir=desc&amp;pageitems=30&amp;statgroup=dashboard&amp;fantasypreset=dashboard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">are projected for over 100 wRC+<\/a>, and the pitching projections <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fangraphs.com\/projections?type=atc&amp;stats=pit&amp;pos=all&amp;team=5&amp;players=0&amp;lg=all&amp;z=1769139917&amp;sortcol=15&amp;sortdir=asc&amp;pageitems=30&amp;statgroup=dashboard&amp;fantasypreset=dashboard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">are mostly middling<\/a>. I guess we will see if the Guardians can defy expectations yet again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travis Bazzana was mentioned in MLB Pipeline\u2019s preview for Australia\u2019s WBC team. I found it funny that they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,135,51,38552,2565,538,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-535319","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115947260316808297","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535319","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=535319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}