{"id":666435,"date":"2026-04-06T13:40:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/666435\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:40:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:40:33","slug":"series-preview-royals-at-guardians-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/666435\/","title":{"rendered":"Series Preview: Royals at Guardians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Guardians will get their first divisional matchup of the year when the Royals come to town tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Royals are 12th in wRC+ at 104, tenth in Baserunning runs at 0.4, 24th in Defense at -3.4, 12th in starting pitcher ERA at 3.30, 10th in starting pitcher SIERA at 3.63, 27th in bullpen ERA at 6.27, and 24th in bullpen SIERA at 4.27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Guardians are 23rd in wRC+ at 85, 29th in baserunning runs at -1.6, 16th in defense at -1.2, 7th in starting pitcher ERA at 2.98, 10th in starting pitcher SIERA at 3.63, 16th in bullpen ERA and 7th in bullpen SIERA at 2.99,<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Game One, Monday, 6:10PM: Michael Wacha, RHP vs. Tanner Bibee, RHP<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Game Two, Tuesday, 6:10PM: Noah Cameron, LHP vs. Gavin Williams, RHP<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Game Three, Wednesday, 1:10PM: Cole Ragans, LHP vs. Joey Cantillo, RHP<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That Royals rotation is very good, folks. The Guardians will need their lefty mashers to come through this series and they will need to get into the Kansas City bullpen as soon as possible. Do not let Bobby Witt Jr beat you at the plate. Also, let\u2019s get the baserunning and defense on track, shall we? Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Guardians will get their first divisional matchup of the year when the Royals come to town tonight.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,135,51,2589,2565,538,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-666435","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-analysis","12":"tag-clevelandguardians","13":"tag-guardians","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116358049583692140","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666435","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=666435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}