{"id":744848,"date":"2026-07-06T19:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T19:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/744848\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T19:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T19:18:14","slug":"trio-of-guardians-makes-the-al-all-star-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/744848\/","title":{"rendered":"Trio of Guardians makes the AL All-Star Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Closer Cade Smith, rookie second baseman Travis Bazzana and rookie starting pitcher Parker Messick have all been selected to represent the Guardians on the AL All-Star Team in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The selections of Bazzana and Messick make the Guardians the fifth team in MLB history to send multiple rookies to the same All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<p>Bazzana was called up in late April, but that did not stop him from making an impact from the start. He has a batting average of .255 with 7 home runs, 27 RBIs and 12 stolen bases out of the leadoff position.<\/p>\n<p>Messick has had a dominant impact as well, recording a 2.89 ERA and 106 strikeouts across 101 innings. He currently holds a 7-5 record.<\/p>\n<p>Smith earned his first career All-Star selection with 26 saves out of the bullpen, a 2.97 ERA and 57 strikeouts over 39.1 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Closer Cade Smith, rookie second baseman Travis Bazzana and rookie starting pitcher Parker Messick have all been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[556,560,5,135,51,2565,538,4,169,1944,5193,49666,185,558],"class_list":["post-744848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-baseball","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-guardians","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-cleveland-guardians","tag-ryan-johnston","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116874648210716509","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744848","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=744848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}