{"id":850648,"date":"2026-11-11T04:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T04:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/850648\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T04:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T04:37:27","slug":"guardians-news-team-adds-antoine-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/850648\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians News: Team Adds Antoine Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Guardians added their first reliever of the offseason, the usual minor-league contract variety, in left-hander Antoine Kelly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Kelly has had a 1 inning at the major league level so far, and will turn 27 years old soon. Last season in Triple-A for the Rockies, Cubs and Dodgers, he put up a 10.28\/7.28 K\/BB\/9 and an FIP of 5. So, if the Guardians can help him halve his walk-rate, he could be their next reclamation project success. He has a mid-90\u2019s fastball and a nice slider. There is no such thing as a bad minor-league deal. He gave up an .803 OPS to RHH and a .575 to LHH last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Guardians\u2019 prospects Welbyn Francisca and Luke Hill both got singles in the Arizona Fall League All-Star Game yesterday, and Hill added a walk. Francisca started at short and Hill came in mid-game to play second base. Both players had an excellent first half of AFL play, and we\u2019ll see how they do in their remaining games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Guardians\u2019 prospect Jaison Chourio will play winter ball in Venezuela, playing for the Aguilas del Zulia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Currently, the Guardians have three open roster spots ahead of November 20th\u2019s deadline to roster players ahead of the Rule-5. However, one would guess they will non-tender folks like Matt Festa and Blake Perkins on November 17th to open a couple more spots, and there may be other moves made prior to that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The second week of Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz\u2019s trial begins today. Sam Blum breaks down what has happened so far for the Athletic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7764691\/2026\/11\/09\/clase-ortiz-pitch-rigging-trial-mlb-what-to-know\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Basically, nothing is clear yet, except it\u2019s a funny element that the judge apparently knows next to nothing about the game of baseball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Guardians added their first reliever of the offseason, the usual minor-league contract variety, in left-hander Antoine Kelly.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850649,"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-850648","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\/117595959652915663","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850648","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=850648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}