{"id":722224,"date":"2026-06-10T09:42:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/722224\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T09:42:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:42:24","slug":"guardians-news-worst-avg-slg-in-al-once-again-a-losing-formula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/722224\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians News: Worst AVG &#038; SLG in AL once again a losing formula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Guardians can\u2019t hit for average, and can\u2019t hit for power. They do draw walks, but opponents have made the extremely obvious adjustment to that: Just throw strikes, since they can\u2019t hit for average or power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">9 more innings. Only 2 more runs. This offense is painful to watch, and they still think Grant Fink is the man for the job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Up next is Carlos Rodon, so pencil in a bunch more 0\u2019s on your scorecard. Parker Messick needs to pitch a perfect game to force extra innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u2022 Braden Montgomery made his MLB debut, and <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Fnews%2Fbraden-montgomery-hits-walk-off-home-run-in-mlb-debut\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hit a walkoff home run<\/a>. 2nd place is calling the Guardians\u2019 name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u2022 Austin Hedges is better than Patrick Bailey at everything. Framing. Game calling. Blocking. Catching the ball. Even hitting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Guardians can\u2019t hit for average, and can\u2019t hit for power. They do draw walks, but opponents have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,135,51,38552,2565,538,4,38553],"class_list":["post-722224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-baseball","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-cleveland-guardians-news","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-guardians","tag-mlb","tag-morning-news-and-notes"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116725163201153887","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722224","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=722224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}