{"id":694505,"date":"2026-05-09T16:30:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/694505\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T16:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:30:43","slug":"gold-glover-patrick-bailey-is-traded-to-guardians-who-shake-up-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/694505\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Glover Patrick Bailey is traded to Guardians who shake up roster"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cleveland Guardians<\/a> are trading their tugboat for gold.<\/p>\n

The Guardians<\/a> are acquiring two-time Gold Glove-winning catcher Patrick Bailey<\/a> in a trade with the San Francisco Giants<\/a> for the No. 29 pick in this year’s draft and left-handed pitching prospect Matt “Tugboat” Wilkinson.<\/p>\n

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Jeff Passan<\/a> broke the news on X.com.<\/p>\n

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May 8, 2026; Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Cleveland Guardians second baseman Travis Bazzana (37) hits a home run during the first inning against the Minnesota Twins at Progressive Field. Mandatory Credit: Ken Blaze-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

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Cleveland Guardians home series vs. Minnesota Twins<\/p>\n

May 8, 2026; Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Cleveland Guardians second baseman Travis Bazzana (37) hits a home run during the first inning against the Minnesota Twins at Progressive Field. Mandatory Credit: Ken Blaze-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

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May 8, 2026; Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Cleveland Guardians second baseman Travis Bazzana (37) celebrates with third baseman Jose Ramirez (11) after hitting a home run during the first inning against the Minnesota Twins at Progressive Field. Mandatory Credit: Ken Blaze-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

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May 8, 2026; Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Cleveland Guardians second baseman Travis Bazzana (37) celebrates after hitting a home run during the first inning against the Minnesota Twins at Progressive Field. Mandatory Credit: Ken Blaze-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

The trade could to strike an end to Bo Naylor’s<\/a> run as the team’s primary catcher. Naylor was optioned to Columbus, according to The Athletic\u2019s Zack Meisel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Naylor\u2019s served as Cleveland\u2019s starting backstop 23 games this season. He\u2019s slashing just .143\/.200\/.238.<\/p>\n

It also could impact Guardians catching prospect Cooper Ingle, who is the No. 5 prospect in the organization and No. 84 overall player in all of baseball, according to MLBpipeline.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ingle, 24, has a slash of .408\/.597\/1.352 in 49 at-bats for the Class AAA Columbus Clippers this season with five home runs and 19 RBIs. He is a career .288\/.420\/.880 hitter with 26 home runs and 151 RBIs.<\/p>\n

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He was taken in the fourth round of the 2023 MLB draft.<\/p>\n

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Giants starting pitcher Logan Webb returns to the mound behind catcher Patrick Bailey after the Los Angeles Dodgers scored a run during the fourth inning, April 23, 2026, in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

What the Guardians are trading for in Patrick Bailey<\/p>\n

Bailey has won a Gold Glove each of the past two seasons, but is hitting .146 this season and is a career .224 hitter.<\/p>\n

He was selected 13th overall in the 2020 MLB draft out of North Carolina State and is a switch-hitter.<\/p>\n

In three-plus years, he’s totaled 22 home runs and 154 RBIs. He’s caught 85 would-be base stealers in 215 attempts and has a .992 fielding percentage.<\/p>\n

Patrick Bailey contract details<\/p>\n

Bailey is in the pre-arbitration phase of his contract for the 2026 season, with a salary of $2.2 million. Bailey is under team control and not eligible for free agency until 2030, with arbitration years ahead in 2027-2029.<\/p>\n

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The Guardians traded left-hander Matt “Tugboat” Wilkinson for San Francisco catcher Patrick Bailey.<\/p>\n

What the Guardians give up by trading Matt Wilkinson to the Giants<\/p>\n

The Guardians gave up crowd favorite Wilkinson, who was 1-2 with a 1.59 ERA in 28\u2153 innings this season for the Class AA Akron RubbberDucks. The left-hander was a 10th-round pick by Cleveland in the 2023 MLB draft.<\/p>\n

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The 23-year old was 13-17 with a 2.82 ERA and 330 strikeouts in 56 career games.<\/p>\n

The Guardians were allowed to trade the No. 29 choice because it is a competitive-balance pick, which has been movable since its inception.<\/p>\n

The Giants will get an additional $3.27 million in slot value, bringing their total pool to $17.35 million, the fourth highest in the draft.<\/p>\n

Brad Bournival can be reached by email at bbournival@usatodayco.com\u00a0and is on X at\u00a0@bbournival.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Akron Beacon Journal: Patrick Bailey traded to Guardians by Giants for Matt Wilkinson, pick<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Guardians are trading their tugboat for gold. The Guardians are acquiring two-time Gold Glove-winning catcher Patrick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,867,135,51,2565,28710,28578,1417,538,5924,73681,4,7661,66],"class_list":["post-694505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-baseball","tag-bo-naylor","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-columbus-clippers","tag-cooper-ingle","tag-gold-glove","tag-guardians","tag-jeff-passan","tag-matt-wilkinson","tag-mlb","tag-patrick-bailey","tag-san-francisco-giants"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116545575144390684","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694505","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=694505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}