{"id":844084,"date":"2026-11-02T17:57:34","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T17:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/844084\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T17:57:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T17:57:34","slug":"guardians-news-clase-and-ortiz-on-trial-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/844084\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians News: Clase and Ortiz on Trial Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Former Guardians\u2019 closer Emmanuel Clase and starting pitcher Luis Ortiz begin standing trial for their alleged involvement in a gambling scandal today. Sam Blum of the Athletic has promised updates on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SamBlum3\/status\/2117244020212822262?a=VXwOJ3C0x6-2-9NCkL4&amp;s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For clarification on a point raised in the comments, Ben Lively is signed for a minor-league deal with the Guardians for 2027 BUT if a team wanted to take him in the Rule-5 draft (thereby guaranteeing him a spot on the active roster, they could do so). That\u2019s pretty unlikely given he had an unspecified injury to end the season and given his age. Also\u2026 they aren\u2019t going to have a Rule-5 draft this year, I am pretty sure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Luke Hill and Welbyn Francisca have been performing extremely well for the Surprise Saguaros in the Arizona Fall League, with Hill boasting a .999 OPS while playing second base and DH and Francisca a 1.237 OPS while playing shortstop and second base. You can follow along (weather-permitting) with the Saguaros box score tonight at 8:30PM ET <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=87443X1797504&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Farizona-fall-league%2Fscores\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Guardians\u2019 closer Emmanuel Clase and starting pitcher Luis Ortiz begin standing trial for their alleged involvement in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844085,"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-844084","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\/117548144578586663","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844084","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=844084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}