The Guardians lost a game where the hitting was bad and the bullpen was worse. Too bad they don\u2019t have any hitting or relief help in Columbus!<\/p>\n
Oh, what\u2019s that? They have Cooper Ingle who has a 165 wRC+ and Franco Aleman has a 0.56 ERA in the past 16 innings? Shhhh, no one tell Chris Antonetti.<\/p>\n
Stephen Vogt used Matt Festa as a fireman yesterday and it blew up in his face. Now, in Vogt\u2019s defense, coming into yesterday, Festa had a 2.76 FIP in high leverage spots and a 2.90 FIP with runners in scoring position. Now, of course, his xFIP\u2019s in both spots were over 5.<\/p>\n
Festa\u2019s K\/BB is still good. The problem, of course, is that he is giving up a 14% HR\/FB rate. That hurts. And it\u2019s why I think they need to try to get Aleman up and get him through waivers. He\u2019s getting crushed.<\/p>\n
The Guardians hitters were horrific against Imai and the Astros pen who are, frankly, awful. They struck out 15 times and had 0 walks. Gabriel Arias remains a player who cannot hit major league pitching and whose defense does not justify his place on the roster.<\/p>\n
Tigers beat the White Sox, the Royals won and the Twins lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Guardians lost a game where the hitting was bad and the bullpen was worse. Too bad they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731002,"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-731001","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\/116783154682871594","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731001","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=731001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}