You could see the writing on the wall
When they traded Josh Naylor away;
The Guardians were already planning
To send Bo to Triple-A.
They\u2019re playing for the future now,
Looking for a higher ceiling;
Leaving Bo on the outside,
With a businesslike feeling.<\/p>\n
You could see the writing on the wall
When Ingle lit up the stats;
The Guardians were already drooling,
Looking for more impressive at bats.
In the desert\u2019s afternoon sun,
Keeping the daily lineup in check;
It wasn\u2019t about the service time,
But the bat they need on deck.<\/p>\n
You could see the writing on the wall
When it was clear that Cody Huff
Wasn\u2019t just a defensive catcher,
And that his bat might be enough.
The Cleveland fans are watching close
As the names on the lineup changed;
Staring at a depth chart
That was suddenly rearranged.<\/p>\n
You could see the writing on the wall
When they traded for Patrick Bailey;
This could be the end of Bo \u2014
Not a certainty, but a maybe.
With a new man behind the dish
And the pitching staff in sync,
Bo was left alone to wonder
If his season was on the brink.<\/p>\n
You could see the writing on the wall
As the brother-bond was split;
No more Naylor-Naylor high-fives
After every game-changing hit.
The Guardians are a business,
And the business had its say \u2014
It\u2019s a long road back to Cleveland
From a stint in Triple-A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You could see the writing on the wallWhen they traded Josh Naylor away;The Guardians were already planningTo send…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,135,51,79922,2589,2565,538,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-701340","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-discussion","12":"tag-cleveland-guardians-analysis","13":"tag-clevelandguardians","14":"tag-guardians","15":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116590034654433391","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701340","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=701340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}