May 22, 2026 • 38 mins
A look back at the Guardians four game sweep of the Tigers in Detroit and a win streak standing at seven in a row. Also, relief pitcher Colin Holderman chats with Rosey about his recent stretch of solid outings. Plus, the weekly Farm Report with Director of Player Development Stephen Osterer talking Hill City Howlers. That's all on this edition of Guardians Weekly with Jim Rosenhaus on the Cleveland Guardians Radio Network.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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that began in Detroit in impressive fashion of four game
series sweep over the Tigers, and now they are in
Philadelphia against a very good Phillies ball club. Coming up
(01:13):
a little bit later on in our show, we will
visit with Colin Holderman, who has suddenly gained a prominent
role out of that Guardian's bullpen. And we'll also hear
from Stephen Osterer, the vice president of player development for
the Guardians, a full farm report on the Hill City Howlers.
That's the team in Lynchburg, Virginia at low Ay, but
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So a lot to get to with Osti. In the
latter half of our show this week, we'll take a
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Speaker 1 (02:49):
Welcome back to Guardians Weekly. Jim Rosenhouse back with you
from Philadelphia. This road trip started in Detroit on Monday,
the Guardians with a four game set against the Tie,
looking to further create some distance between themselves and a
disappointing Detroit team so far this season, and The Guardian's
playing really good baseball, and that continued on Monday night.
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The Tigers got the scoring started with a run in
the first inning, but the Guardians offense got going in
the third. Brian Rochio let it off with a triple,
then Chase de Latter drove him in with a ground
out to tie the game at one, and then Ree
Hoskins delivered to put the Guardians in front. The Pins
swung on drill toward the gap left center. It gets
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down for base head, It's going to go to the wall.
The latter hits third. He's being waived home. There will
be a throat of the play, but no chance. Dlotter
scores with these and Rees Hoskins rifles a two out
ARBI double up the alley and left center to put
Cleveland on top two to one, and for Hoskins his
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seventh double, giving him seventeen rbiyes the fifth ending, the
Guardians extended that lead once again to Lauder with an
RBI on a fielder's choice and then a sackfly from Hoskins,
and the Guardians were up four to one. Then in
the sixth a basit for Travis Bizana, followed by a
pair of walks set the table for on Hell Martinez.
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The bitch and a swing and a liner dance over
the head of McKinstry and the right a bay shit.
Everybody moves up one as Bazana scores to make it
five to one Cleveland. So a base sit to right
field by on Hell Martinez his second hit tonight, and
he now has collected nine RBIs in his last seven
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games and twenty five on the year. Bass is still
loaded for the next hitter, Jose Ramirez. Boy, oh boy,
Jose Ramirez looks like he is really locked in. He
doesn't look jumpy at the plate anymore. He looks balanced,
and you know what that means. He looks very, very dangerous.
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The payoff swung and drill the right pace, hit down
the line, It'll go all the way to the wall.
Quan scores. Rookio scores. Stopping at third Martinez and Jose
Ramirez breaks it open with a two run double down
the right field line, and Cleveland has a three spot
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here in the sixth inning and a seven to one lead.
So the Guardians built the big lead to go along
with a tremendous outing for Slade Seconi, who was still
out there in the seventh inning, the two to two
pitch swing in another lazy fly to left center. This
will be caught by left fielder on Hell Martinez, longest
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outing of the year in Slade Seconi has still only
made eighty six pitches. Detroit's Matt Vierling hit a solo
home run in the eighth inning to make it seven
to two, but in the ninth Jose Ramirez as answered
with a blast of his own. He delivers a swing
and a drive to deep bluff field Hallwai back and
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go on. Jose Ramirez makes it eight to two. Cleveland
a line drive home run into the seats and left.
That is his eighth three RBIs tonight, twenty two on
the year, and that bomb went four hundred and ten feet.
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And then Peyton Paulette finished things up in the bottom
half of the ninth inning. The payoff pitch swung on
a week chopper, a second basana, charges, gloves, throws bowgame.
Guardians start the road trip with a resounding eight to
two thrashing of the Detroit Tigers, so a nice way
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to start the series for the Guardians. Things would get
tighter for the remainder of the series, with Detroit as
the games were hotly contested back and forth, but a
similar result throughout. On Tuesday night, the Guardians jumped in
front with a run in the second on a Stephen
Quan sack fly, but in the bottom of the inning,
Tiger slugger Spencer Torkelsen connected on a two run home
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run to put Detroit on top two to one. It
stayed that way until the fourth inning. That's when Kyle
Manzardo drew a walk and then Travis Bazana stepped in.
Here's the pitch and it swung on and lifted high
in the air. This one is deep to right way
back there. How, run Banzana a two run shot, and
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Travis Bozana has put the Guardians back in front three
to two Cleveland on Bazana's second major league home run.
In the bottom of the fourth inning, the Tiger's tied
it at three, scoring a run on a rare throwing
error by catcher Austin Edges, and It's stay tied until
the seventh. That's when Kwan doubled Hedges, bunted him over
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to third and Brian Rochio continue to pile up the
runs batted in the lefty Tyler Holton's pitch swung on
grinded to Short diving backhanded stopped by short but he
has no play at the plate. Gets up, he throws
Rocchio out, scoring a Kwan. Cleveland again manufactures a run.
They take the lead four to three. Here in the
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seventh inning, nice play by the shortstop Zack Short diving
toward third with a backhanded smother job, but once he
left his feet he had no chance to get Kwan
and Rochio with his twenty seventh arbi. And then the
bullpen was lights out as usual for the Guardians, and
in the ninth Kate Smith was on to try and
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close it out. Now the set and again the one
two pitch swam in a mass ball game, Hi he
takes care of Dingler. Guardians win the first two as
Smith strikes out. The side gets a league leading fifteenth
day Cleveland victorious in Motown four to three, another one
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run game on Wednesday night, great pitching on both sides
as the Tigers went with a bullpen day and for
the Guardians, Tanner Bibby was on the mound down the
two to two to mckinstreet sway, I gonna miss strike three.
Biby continues to sizzle, setting them down in order again.
We will head to the sixth. The Guardians nothing, the
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Tiger's nothing. The game remained scoreless until the seventh. That's
when Detroit finally broke through for a run their first
at bat tonight. With a runner in scoring position, McGonagall
at third, the pitch a swing and a flyball medium
deep left, Detroit will take the lead. Klon with the
catch throws to second. Mcgonagall's scores one nothing Tigers, but
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Tanner Biby wasn't phased, as he was still out there
and rolling. In the eighth inning again, the two to
two swung on lined up the middle clock behind second
can buy the short stop Rocchio boy. The pickoff was
mammon and Cleveland's got one more shot down one nothing
going to the ninth. Last chance for the Guardians. In
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the ninth, Daniel Schneman and Travis Bizana got it started
with back to back singles and then a great bunt
from Stephen Kwan made it runners at second and third
with one out for Patrick Bailey. Here's the three to
two swung out grub all a second fielded by Lee.
He'll flip to first game Tide Schneeman scores Bisana the third.
(10:34):
Heck of it at bat by Patrick Bailey. He put
the ball in play on a nasty change up and
the ground ball got the run in to tie the
game at one, and Patrick Bailey with a second RBI
as a guardian, Eric Sabrowski and Colin Holderman took care
of business in the bottom of the ninth inning and
(10:56):
we went to extra innings. Brian Rochio the runner at
second base to start the tenth and on Hell Martinez
didn't waste any time driving home the first run. Soft
tossing lefties, pitch swung on hit in the air toward
the gap right center. It's going to get down to
go to the wall. Brocchio scores Martinez hit second. He
makes the turn flying into third with a head first
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slide in an RBI triple. Guardians take the lead two
to one. On Hell, Martinez plug the gamp in right
center with his first triple of the year, and then
Jose Ramirez was looking to drive in one more infield
in runner third. Nobody out the next offering, swung and
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trilled in the left center and RBI hit It'll go
all the way to the wall. In the score Martinez
and a stand up double for Jose Ramirez and the
Guardians now have a three to one lead and give
Jose Ramirez says he left venth double is twenty third
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RBI and as usual in extra innings, that run was
enormous as the Tigers were able to get their runner
home from second in the bottom of the tenth to
make it three to two, and once again it was
up to Kate Smith to slam the door shut in Detroit.
Now the one two swung on popped him up left
side of the infield. Jose Ramirezs big stick catch Bowl
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game three in a row in Motown and Cleveland's won
five straight and Tiger fans booing as Detroit has lost
five in a row. So back to back one run
wins and could the Guardians come away with a four
game series sweep. Thursday afternoon we found out as the
Guardians struck first with a two out rally in the
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third inning, Brian Rochio doubled, bringing Daniel Steaman to the plate.
Now the one O swung on hid high in the
air to right long run near the line for per
and it drops for a base hit, scoring Rochio throw
a second head first slide a double, one nothing Cleveland
on what sounded like a broken bat fly ball near
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the line and right medium deep at best, but Perez
had so much ground to cover that he couldn't get there.
And back to back two out doubles, Cleveland up one
to nothing. Schneman is ninth two bagger and it gives
him nineteen RBIs on the year. And then it was
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Jose Ramirez now the one two pitch, swinging a little
looping liner in the left center. That's a base hit.
It'll score Schneeman. Guardians take a two nothing lead. It
looked like Jose Ramirez went down and got a splitter
and flicked it into left center for a two out
RBI single. Three straight two out hits, two nothing Cleveland
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and Ramirez with RBI number twenty four. The good pitching
continued as Joey Cantillo worked five and two third scoreless
innings before turning it over to the bullpen. It was
still a two nothing lead in the eighth when Patrick
Bailey stepped in Smith dealing Bailey with a drive deep
bright center field. On the run.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Peres and it is gone.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Patrick Bailey's first home run as a Cleveland Guardian. A
towering last to right center and the Guardians get a
Mamath insurance run and laid at three to nothing here
in the eighth and what a welcoming committee awaiting him
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in the first base dugout. Detroit broke up the shutout
bid on a solo home run by Dylan Dingler in
the eighth inning that made it a three to one
Guardians lead. And with Kate Smith having pitched the previous
two games, it would be Hunter Gaddis ga the call
in the ninth to try and save it. Hunter Gaddis
pounding the strike zone, he sets, he fires, and Veerling
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waves at it. Ball game, get us with a strikeout.
Cleveland with a four game sweep, and they've now won
six in a row and they have pushed the Tigers
nine and a half games out of first. So a
four game series sweep of the Tigers. Who was on
to Philadelphia for a Friday night contest against the Phillies
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to open the series, And what a pitching matchup it
was between Gavin Williams for the Guardians and Christopher Sanchez
for the Phillies. Now the one too and strike three called.
He nailed the outside corner at ninety seven and the
third double digit strikeout game for Gavin Williams this year.
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That's number ten. Boy. The way these two guys are
pitching tonight, may take one home run to win it.
The one thing you're not going to do is string
together three four hits and score a runner. Two not
against these two guys. Sanchez and Williams. Now the one
pitch and he hits it off the end of the
band on the grass to first, easy played for Harper,
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and it's the middle of the eighth. It's still Cleveland
and Philly, no score. The one two swung on bounced
to second Basanta. The second one rookio turns two against
the speedster. How about that? Gavin Williams ninety nine pitches
through eight shutout innings donuts on the scoreboard at Citizens
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Bank Park. That's when the Guardians would get the game's
loan run thanks to Kyle Manzardo. One down, nobody on.
We're in the ninth inning. Duo ran into the winding pitch,
a swing and a high fly ball deep left field,
Marsh's back track walk of a pinchead home run by
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Kyle Manzardo, and the Guardians have a one nothing laid
here in the ninth inning, Manzardo off the bench with
that pinchead. Homer is fifth on the year and with
the Guardians in front one nothing. That means Caate Smith
was on for the bottom half of the ninth. Caate
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Smith is ready the pinch, swinging a chapter to first.
Manzardo Clubs goes to the bag himself. Bowl game. What
a game, A four hit shut up by Gavin Williams
and Caate Smith and a pinch at solo homer in
the ninth by Kyle Manzardo. Cleveland wins in Philly one nothing.
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So what a way to start the weekend for the Guardians.
It continues, weather permitting, on Saturday afternoon at four oh five,
and then Sunday afternoon the series and road trip wraps
up with a one third five first pitch Philly. Stay
with us when we come back. We'll hear from relief
pitcher Colin Holderman. I also have a farm report with
Stephen Osturer that's coming up on the Cleveland Clinic Radio Network.
(18:39):
Welcome back to Guardians Weekly. Jim rosen House along with
you from Philadelphia Citizens Bank Park where the Guardians are
taking on the Phillies. This Weekend. Part of the Guardian's
recent success has been the work of their bullpen, including
Colin Holderman, who has assumed a late enning role now
in high leverage situations for The Guardian. He said, why not.
(19:00):
He picked up two wins this week in Detroit as
an earned run average of one point five zero after
thirteen appearances, and we caught up with him and asked
him about the keys to his success since he returned
from a brief stint at Triple A Columbus.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
You know, honestly, it's just taking it day by day,
you know, going in, you know, doing I gotta do,
doing the routine, getting ready and make sure the body's
in the right spot and then just attacking, you know,
not giving a free bases away and just be relentless
in the zone. And it's worked out in my favor.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
And you've had success before. And how how much do
you lean on that when you're trying to get to
a good place.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Yeah, you know, it's always tough. You know, this is
the hardest game in the world and it could be
relentless at times, but you know, we went through a
tough one last year. But just knowing I've done it before,
and I did it for three years straight, so it's
not like it happened on accident. Just getting back to
you know, being confident and being healthy also helps a lot,
and it's the best my body's felt. So we're in
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a good spot and just keep stacking, get outing after
get outing.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Chang organizations. What's helped you here to reach a really good.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Spot, And definitely making the decision this offseason was there's
a few things I was taken, you know, into into
account and it was just, you know, the pitching department
here is unbelievable and just the culture is amazing as well.
So you know, when I was doing all my zoom calls,
this one definitely stood out to me and it was
an easy decision for me to come here. And you know,
it's lived up to everything so far. We got into camp,
we dialed in some mechanics just a little bit to
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help me, you know, stay in plain. It's been easy
to throw strikes, and you know, just the culture has
been amazing. It's a winning culture, you know, really just
good people throughout the clubhouse and in the organization. So
it's an easy place to show up to work.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Colin Halderman's joining us a big part of what a bullpen.
It's really starting to come on and find itself. You
make the club affs spring training, but then you're with
the inevitable and bullpen. Sometimes you end up in the
minor leagues for a little bit. But it seemed like
you handle that very well at this stage of your career.
What allows you to do that where you can come
(20:58):
back and get good things done?
Speaker 4 (21:00):
You know, it's it's not the first time. You know,
last year I was optioned for the first time, you know,
and made it to arbitration before that happens. So I was,
you know, blessed beyond belief to do that. But uh,
you know, last year it was a little harder for me.
It was it was, uh, you know, pretty hard mentally.
You know how to work, and you know, it took
a while to get back, but it is just they
optioned me just to get some length.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
You know.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
It was something I saw, you know, I've been around
enough and I saw the roster was made that it
was gonna be me. I had options, and uh, I
just wanted to make myself as you know, of use
and I was like I could lengthen out if need be,
so I went down there, did that and then came
back through some length early and not throwing some leverage.
So I was just you know, taking it day by
day and I knew I'd be back here.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Can you go to to Triple A and kind of
have it be like your major leagues in an effort
to get back in terms of of how you view
ballparks and opponents and things like that, it.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Could definitely be hard. You know, it's the atmosphere, it
just isn't the same. You know, just kind of like
every time you go out there here, you know it
means something. You know, you're trying to you know, make money, win,
make postseason push something. You know, the just the adrenalines
at all time high. So it's definitely something you have
to adjust to there. And uh, because you're just really
working on stuff and trying to stack good outings. Of course,
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but you're trying. You're there for a reason, and just
the guys they have there is awesome and they want
to win. Great coaching staff, you know, great players. So
it was easy to be there and just take it
day by day, and you know, through some good outings,
came back and it kept it.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Going and you come back to a bullpen and have
some characters out there, right. What's it been like out
there for you getting to know these guys and see
what makes them tick.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
You know, it's just a bunch of amazing people, you know,
and spring training, you know, got to be around them
for a little while and just see some of the characters.
That's you know, first off, amazing people, but definitely unique people.
And I think that's what makes a bullpend good. You know,
like everyone's really close. You know, we got each other's
backs and you've seen that in the game. It translates
and uh and we have fun out there during the game,
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So that makes it easy and when you go on
there light, it's a lot easy to have success.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Colin nice going, Thanks a lot for coming by, appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
That's Colin hold Or been a veteran reliever who obviously
has been through a lot of ups and downs in
his career, but ecstatic to be with Cleveland and they
are happy to have him right now out of that
bullpen as well. Stay with us when we come back.
It's the weekly Farm Report that's next on the Cleveland
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Speaker 1 (24:00):
Rosenhou's back with you from Philadelphia, our final segment of
Guardians Weekly, and it's a weekly farm report with Steven Ostro,
the vice president of player development for the Guardians, and
we're talking single a Hill City. The Howlers out of Lynchburg,
Virginia play in the Carolina League, that's the Low A League,
and we talked about Dari Fernandez, an infielder who we
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saw back in spring training see some significant time in
major league games, and he's one of many top prospects
in Lynchburg.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
Yeah, the Hill Speed group, to your point, has got
a lot of energy, has spent a week there and
they're really fun to watch the young guys. But Darry's
one of those players who's young. He's really talented. He's
a switch hitting infielder who's played a lot of his
time last year in the Arizona Complex level and he's
got a small taste of the affiliate life last year
(24:53):
and win winning that championship, and he's a really interesting profile. Offensively,
he's got really wrong back to ball skills, but is
also aggressive in zone.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
And out of the zone, tends to chase pitches sometimes,
but still remains really productive at the plate. So there's
been a lot of work.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
You know, cleaning up the swing decisions, getting him to
understand and stay within more of his like targeted swing zones,
and that's been a strong emphasis to start the year.
And you know, he's he's really gifted as an athlete
and spends a lot of his time on the left
side of the infield, but he's pretty much handled every
day shortstop duties with an injury the last few weeks
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for one of our other infielders. You know, he's got
a plus arm strength out there. He's a strong and
accurate thrower. He's got good actions and the presence at
the position and he's developing really well there. So it's
been exciting to see him get a lot more of
those playing reps at shortstop, and like a lot of
these young players, there's just a huge tie into the
physical development, like we've talked about and how that fits
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to just the long term view of what he could be.
And you know, we're looking to continue to build off
of a really good offseason where we saw him tack
on some strength and power and muscle mass, and you know,
there's still some frame to go and some work to
be done there and you know, we think that will
translate long term to more power and punch offensively, but
you know, handling the position really well right now and
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doing a lot of good things.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
And he's just a fun one to watch.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
A couple of outfielders down at Hill City, let's start
with Robert Arius. It looks like some really good numbers
across the boarding, including an OPS over eight hundred.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
Yeah, he's he's an incredibly talented player, really really exciting
guy to watch. He's shown very strong offensive performance so
far to start the year in Hill City, and yeah,
I think that's a lot of that's driven by just
great decisions at the plate and really strong back to
ball skills similar to to Dari, but maybe a little
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bit more selective in his approach.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
And I think there's some work.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
To be done still in the back path and that's
been a focus for him, just trying to squeeze a
little bit more productive ball flight, because he does hit
the ball really well, but trying to get it that
maybe more productive angles. And you know, we saw a
lot of productive physical development to this offseason and another
one of these guys that took a step forward and
maximize his time this offseason to build the engine, so
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to speak, and we saw that translate to some beast
speed games and he is impacting the ball a little
bit harder. But now it's been fun to see him
develop offensively and you know, put up and perform to
start the year. But I think the more exciting part
for Areas is just like how fast he is in
some of the plays he's able to make in the
outfield that you can track the ball down with the
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best of them. On the base pass, He's the type
of guy who's going to steal a couple of bags,
you know when you blink, and he's got this magnetic.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Personality, so the players and the staff love being around him.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
He's just this great teammate, high energy, fun to watch,
solid routines, and you know he's really young too for
the level. So he's drawn a lot of excitement for
the crop of guys that we have.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
He's been one that stuck.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Out and another nice looking outfielder ju Niker Cassis kind
of some similar numbers to t Arius, But what are
you seeing from him that stands out to you?
Speaker 7 (28:11):
Yeah, he was one of the guys that got out
last year as well, except he got out as a
seventeen year old at full season affiliate, which is unusual,
so to speak.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
And he's got polished and toise that is beyond his age.
Speaker 7 (28:26):
And you know, his surface numbers right now or maybe
a take above average to start the year, but under
the hood.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
They're really really strong.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
He's another one of these guys that's that's gifted with
his back to ball skills.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Maybe a touch more than some of the others, and
has a really good eye and handle his zone.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
He's going to take a ton of walks and not
strike out. But I think the long term focus is
just trying to make slight adjustments to that path to
get a little bit more of productive ball flight similar
to some of these other guys, and tap into more power,
you know, long term, as he continues to physically develop,
And of course he's he was really long young last year.
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He's still very young for the level and just has
an incredible base to build upon. So I think this
is something that's going to take time for him, at
least with the swing. But you know, he's just an
incredibly talented offensive player. Yeah, he's performed really well, and
bri are as excited about Juni as we are as anyone.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Else in the system.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
And you have a big, strong first basement with Hill
City Anthony Martinez. I thought it was interesting you had
mentioned during his college career he had a very much
different approach at the plate to what he's working with
now and how has the current set up for him
helped him tremendously in pro ball.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
Yeah, yeah, Anthony is a big, very strong, left handed
hitting first baseman that he is crushing the ball coming
out of the gates. To your point, he was a
college guy who took him last year maybe a little
bit more of like the polished college bad well rounded,
not not a guy who you know, maybe hit for power, had.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
An offensively, you know, do damage mindset.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
I think it was more of a balanced approach, and
when we got him, we learned that maybe there was
a little bit of a shift in mindset that we
could tap into to go out and just like hammer
baseballs versus just try to make contact.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
And he's got really good back to ball skill, so I.
Speaker 7 (30:24):
Think they kind of leaned into that, and he leaned
into that identity probably in college a little bit more
than where we would think he could be successful moving forward.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
So credit to him.
Speaker 7 (30:34):
He's he's kind of flipped a little bit of a
mindset and he's made some slight adjustments to his swing
to drive the ball a little bit more in the
air and think about doing more damage, and that's resulted
in him tapping into some pretty elite eggs.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
And velocities and he's he's did some.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
Home runs and it's been fun to see that flip
a little bit for him, and he's come out really
hot in that level and you know, a bit of
an older college bat for the level of times you'd
expect guys to go and do well, but he's he
is dominating level, so.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
To speak, offensively, so that's been really fun.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
And we'll turn to the mound and do you have
an award winner, a Carolina League Award winner for the
early portion of the schedule left hand or Harrison Bodendorf.
And what's Modendorf done to really stand out in the
early season.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yeah, it's always fun having an early award.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
And yeah, Harrison came out and pitched extremely well over
the starts that he's made in April. And this was
a left handed college arm that we took last year
in the draft that he was maybe a tick on
the Polish side when we took him, and you know,
we thought there's a lot of development left to gain,
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and he was a performer strikethrower, and you know, there
are some things that we could tap into from a
velocity standpoint and things that we could kind of build
upon as we got him. So he's got a unique
slot with a fastball. It's going to play above it's
current velocity, which is holding down maybe in the low nineties.
It's it's more east to west. From from an arsenal standpoint,
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he's got a really good change up. He's done a
phenomenal job of just controlling counts and getting ahead and
that's resulted him not really walking anyone, and his stuff
has played up because of it, and he's striking out
about thirty six percent of the batters.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Facing, which is a lot. And again, I think the
long term vision firm.
Speaker 7 (32:31):
Here is gives just hinge on him continuing to gain
velocity over time. This is probably more of a slow
drip than it is, you know, a hurried rush, and
we've seen some of that development already, so that party
is really exciting. He's got a big frame, he's a
big guy. There's a lot of room left for growth physically,
so we're seeing that upper trajectory to start his professional
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career and we think that we can continue to see
that moving forward. So Bodendorf has come out as hot
as anyone.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
In that league obviously, and there's a lot to like
in build upon for the future.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Another young pitcher we've talked about on occasion Joey Oak,
the former high round draft pick, and you look at
his season so far, very very young still certainly, and
there's some strikeout in there, there's some walks in there,
and what are you seeing as he continues to develop
at a full season level.
Speaker 7 (33:23):
Yeah, he got that taste of the affiliate life last
year at the end and to start the heear he's had,
you know, a few dominant starts where he's flash signs
and that ceiling and.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
What that could look like down the road.
Speaker 7 (33:37):
And you know, he's coming out sitting ninety five ninety six.
He'll get up to one hundred miles an hour in
the early innings, and he's got a really unique release
thought that kind of jumps on you. He spent a
lot of time this offseason effort trying to develop a
bigger slider and you know, working to pair that with
a shorter.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
One and developing the changeup.
Speaker 7 (33:57):
And you know, we've talked about this all the time,
where you know, when you have these really young pitchers,
you throw hard, and they move their body really fast,
and they're developing physically and they're trying to work on pitches.
We try to simplify it as much as we can.
And when you try to do that and you're here
trying to mix all these other pieces of the puzzles together,
you can have inconsistency and performance, and that's to be expected.
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So you know, as much as we'd love for him
to go out and execute all those pitches all the
time and not walk anyone and you know, throw one
hundred miles an hour. That that's just not a realistic expectation.
And we're good with with what he is showing. We're
really excited about where the ceiling is, and we are
pulling the right levers to you know, work on the
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things that we need to work on long term, which
again is just polishing the arsenal and gaining consistency and
being able to have feel for those pitches and carrying
that over from inning to inning. And you know, when
I was there last week, the first two innings were
as electric because as you could see, you know, you're like,
drop this guy right now to a major league environment
for those two innings and he's going to be totally fine.
(35:05):
Then the third inning it's him trying to figure out
how to get that consistency back when he misses a
few pitches. So this is to be expected with Joe
and a really really talented young man and an incredible
work ethic and worker. And we're excited about this year
and him taking another step forward.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
And one last pitcher to talk about tremendous numbers across
the board and again a little bit older. But Nelson Keljoe,
what do you have on him?
Speaker 7 (35:32):
Yeah, another one of the draft picks college draft picks
from last year. He was a sixth rounder Storry out
of Oregon State and wasn't a guy who got a
lot of starter ups in college.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
So a lot of this is still kind of new
to him.
Speaker 7 (35:46):
He's trying to make that transition and it's been a
huge focus for him, obviously figuring out what it means
to build up as a starter, and what's the starter
routine look like, and how do I recover between outings
and you know, what is a typical intention look like,
what does my pregame intensity look like, what does the
volume look like in a pen? And then on top
(36:06):
of that, just without a ton of the call started reps.
It's also trying to build out and expand the arsenal.
So he was closer to eighty percent fastball in college
at times. It's a really good pitch.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
It's a weapon that he has had in the past
and has now, and.
Speaker 7 (36:21):
It's about working to expand everything else and work more
on the slider work, get the change up working in there.
And we think both of those pitches they flashed promise.
It's just trying to develop them and get them into
game and doing that while also worrying about everything else
that is required to build up and we'll find what
it means to be a starter. So we've seen his
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fastball bump up to ninety eight in spring training. He's
just learning how to access that now and hold it
as a starter, because that's a different thing as you're
building up volume. So we don't know what role they'll
end up down the line, but the stuff is really
encouraging from kel Joe. He's got an ability to throw strikes,
making game adjustments, He's open.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
To learning and growing. He works hard. So Nelson's a
little bit older for the level.
Speaker 7 (37:09):
And I think a little bit greener than a lot
of his peers as it relates to just understanding what
it is to actually be a starter.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
So there's a lot of room for growth.
Speaker 7 (37:20):
But the base with a lefty who can sit back
and throw a ninety eight mile an hour fastball with
really good characteristics to the pitch results in hopefully some
really nice long term success.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Well, I know the most are ways away from the
major leagues, but it's exciting to hear about what could
be for a lot of these guys and asty. Always
fun to have you along. Thank you, Thank you, Rosie.
As always, thanks to Steven Oster for stopping by and
filling us in on some of the best and brightest
in the farm system for the Guardians. That's going to
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do it for our show this week. Thanks as always
to Brian Matse for all of his help putting together
the show each and every week. We will join you
next weekend back home that Progressive field. Until then, this
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Speaker 1 (02:49):
Welcome back to Guardians Weekly. Jim Rosenhouse back with you
from Philadelphia. This road trip started in Detroit on Monday,
the Guardians with a four game set against the Tie,
looking to further create some distance between themselves and a
disappointing Detroit team so far this season, and The Guardian's
playing really good baseball, and that continued on Monday night.
(03:12):
The Tigers got the scoring started with a run in
the first inning, but the Guardians offense got going in
the third. Brian Rochio let it off with a triple,
then Chase de Latter drove him in with a ground
out to tie the game at one, and then Ree
Hoskins delivered to put the Guardians in front. The Pins
swung on drill toward the gap left center. It gets
(03:32):
down for base head, It's going to go to the wall.
The latter hits third. He's being waived home. There will
be a throat of the play, but no chance. Dlotter
scores with these and Rees Hoskins rifles a two out
ARBI double up the alley and left center to put
Cleveland on top two to one, and for Hoskins his
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seventh double, giving him seventeen rbiyes the fifth ending, the
Guardians extended that lead once again to Lauder with an
RBI on a fielder's choice and then a sackfly from Hoskins,
and the Guardians were up four to one. Then in
the sixth a basit for Travis Bizana, followed by a
pair of walks set the table for on Hell Martinez.
(04:18):
The bitch and a swing and a liner dance over
the head of McKinstry and the right a bay shit.
Everybody moves up one as Bazana scores to make it
five to one Cleveland. So a base sit to right
field by on Hell Martinez his second hit tonight, and
he now has collected nine RBIs in his last seven
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games and twenty five on the year. Bass is still
loaded for the next hitter, Jose Ramirez. Boy, oh boy,
Jose Ramirez looks like he is really locked in. He
doesn't look jumpy at the plate anymore. He looks balanced,
and you know what that means. He looks very, very dangerous.
(05:03):
The payoff swung and drill the right pace, hit down
the line, It'll go all the way to the wall.
Quan scores. Rookio scores. Stopping at third Martinez and Jose
Ramirez breaks it open with a two run double down
the right field line, and Cleveland has a three spot
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here in the sixth inning and a seven to one lead.
So the Guardians built the big lead to go along
with a tremendous outing for Slade Seconi, who was still
out there in the seventh inning, the two to two
pitch swing in another lazy fly to left center. This
will be caught by left fielder on Hell Martinez, longest
(05:46):
outing of the year in Slade Seconi has still only
made eighty six pitches. Detroit's Matt Vierling hit a solo
home run in the eighth inning to make it seven
to two, but in the ninth Jose Ramirez as answered
with a blast of his own. He delivers a swing
and a drive to deep bluff field Hallwai back and
(06:08):
go on. Jose Ramirez makes it eight to two. Cleveland
a line drive home run into the seats and left.
That is his eighth three RBIs tonight, twenty two on
the year, and that bomb went four hundred and ten feet.
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And then Peyton Paulette finished things up in the bottom
half of the ninth inning. The payoff pitch swung on
a week chopper, a second basana, charges, gloves, throws bowgame.
Guardians start the road trip with a resounding eight to
two thrashing of the Detroit Tigers, so a nice way
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to start the series for the Guardians. Things would get
tighter for the remainder of the series, with Detroit as
the games were hotly contested back and forth, but a
similar result throughout. On Tuesday night, the Guardians jumped in
front with a run in the second on a Stephen
Quan sack fly, but in the bottom of the inning,
Tiger slugger Spencer Torkelsen connected on a two run home
(07:12):
run to put Detroit on top two to one. It
stayed that way until the fourth inning. That's when Kyle
Manzardo drew a walk and then Travis Bazana stepped in.
Here's the pitch and it swung on and lifted high
in the air. This one is deep to right way
back there. How, run Banzana a two run shot, and
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Travis Bozana has put the Guardians back in front three
to two Cleveland on Bazana's second major league home run.
In the bottom of the fourth inning, the Tiger's tied
it at three, scoring a run on a rare throwing
error by catcher Austin Edges, and It's stay tied until
the seventh. That's when Kwan doubled Hedges, bunted him over
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to third and Brian Rochio continue to pile up the
runs batted in the lefty Tyler Holton's pitch swung on
grinded to Short diving backhanded stopped by short but he
has no play at the plate. Gets up, he throws
Rocchio out, scoring a Kwan. Cleveland again manufactures a run.
They take the lead four to three. Here in the
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seventh inning, nice play by the shortstop Zack Short diving
toward third with a backhanded smother job, but once he
left his feet he had no chance to get Kwan
and Rochio with his twenty seventh arbi. And then the
bullpen was lights out as usual for the Guardians, and
in the ninth Kate Smith was on to try and
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close it out. Now the set and again the one
two pitch swam in a mass ball game, Hi he
takes care of Dingler. Guardians win the first two as
Smith strikes out. The side gets a league leading fifteenth
day Cleveland victorious in Motown four to three, another one
(09:05):
run game on Wednesday night, great pitching on both sides
as the Tigers went with a bullpen day and for
the Guardians, Tanner Bibby was on the mound down the
two to two to mckinstreet sway, I gonna miss strike three.
Biby continues to sizzle, setting them down in order again.
We will head to the sixth. The Guardians nothing, the
(09:26):
Tiger's nothing. The game remained scoreless until the seventh. That's
when Detroit finally broke through for a run their first
at bat tonight. With a runner in scoring position, McGonagall
at third, the pitch a swing and a flyball medium
deep left, Detroit will take the lead. Klon with the
catch throws to second. Mcgonagall's scores one nothing Tigers, but
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Tanner Biby wasn't phased, as he was still out there
and rolling. In the eighth inning again, the two to
two swung on lined up the middle clock behind second
can buy the short stop Rocchio boy. The pickoff was
mammon and Cleveland's got one more shot down one nothing
going to the ninth. Last chance for the Guardians. In
(10:11):
the ninth, Daniel Schneman and Travis Bizana got it started
with back to back singles and then a great bunt
from Stephen Kwan made it runners at second and third
with one out for Patrick Bailey. Here's the three to
two swung out grub all a second fielded by Lee.
He'll flip to first game Tide Schneeman scores Bisana the third.
(10:34):
Heck of it at bat by Patrick Bailey. He put
the ball in play on a nasty change up and
the ground ball got the run in to tie the
game at one, and Patrick Bailey with a second RBI
as a guardian, Eric Sabrowski and Colin Holderman took care
of business in the bottom of the ninth inning and
(10:56):
we went to extra innings. Brian Rochio the runner at
second base to start the tenth and on Hell Martinez
didn't waste any time driving home the first run. Soft
tossing lefties, pitch swung on hit in the air toward
the gap right center. It's going to get down to
go to the wall. Brocchio scores Martinez hit second. He
makes the turn flying into third with a head first
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slide in an RBI triple. Guardians take the lead two
to one. On Hell, Martinez plug the gamp in right
center with his first triple of the year, and then
Jose Ramirez was looking to drive in one more infield
in runner third. Nobody out the next offering, swung and
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trilled in the left center and RBI hit It'll go
all the way to the wall. In the score Martinez
and a stand up double for Jose Ramirez and the
Guardians now have a three to one lead and give
Jose Ramirez says he left venth double is twenty third
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RBI and as usual in extra innings, that run was
enormous as the Tigers were able to get their runner
home from second in the bottom of the tenth to
make it three to two, and once again it was
up to Kate Smith to slam the door shut in Detroit.
Now the one two swung on popped him up left
side of the infield. Jose Ramirezs big stick catch Bowl
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game three in a row in Motown and Cleveland's won
five straight and Tiger fans booing as Detroit has lost
five in a row. So back to back one run
wins and could the Guardians come away with a four
game series sweep. Thursday afternoon we found out as the
Guardians struck first with a two out rally in the
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third inning, Brian Rochio doubled, bringing Daniel Steaman to the plate.
Now the one O swung on hid high in the
air to right long run near the line for per
and it drops for a base hit, scoring Rochio throw
a second head first slide a double, one nothing Cleveland
on what sounded like a broken bat fly ball near
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the line and right medium deep at best, but Perez
had so much ground to cover that he couldn't get there.
And back to back two out doubles, Cleveland up one
to nothing. Schneman is ninth two bagger and it gives
him nineteen RBIs on the year. And then it was
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Jose Ramirez now the one two pitch, swinging a little
looping liner in the left center. That's a base hit.
It'll score Schneeman. Guardians take a two nothing lead. It
looked like Jose Ramirez went down and got a splitter
and flicked it into left center for a two out
RBI single. Three straight two out hits, two nothing Cleveland
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and Ramirez with RBI number twenty four. The good pitching
continued as Joey Cantillo worked five and two third scoreless
innings before turning it over to the bullpen. It was
still a two nothing lead in the eighth when Patrick
Bailey stepped in Smith dealing Bailey with a drive deep
bright center field. On the run.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Peres and it is gone.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Patrick Bailey's first home run as a Cleveland Guardian. A
towering last to right center and the Guardians get a
Mamath insurance run and laid at three to nothing here
in the eighth and what a welcoming committee awaiting him
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in the first base dugout. Detroit broke up the shutout
bid on a solo home run by Dylan Dingler in
the eighth inning that made it a three to one
Guardians lead. And with Kate Smith having pitched the previous
two games, it would be Hunter Gaddis ga the call
in the ninth to try and save it. Hunter Gaddis
pounding the strike zone, he sets, he fires, and Veerling
(15:10):
waves at it. Ball game, get us with a strikeout.
Cleveland with a four game sweep, and they've now won
six in a row and they have pushed the Tigers
nine and a half games out of first. So a
four game series sweep of the Tigers. Who was on
to Philadelphia for a Friday night contest against the Phillies
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to open the series, And what a pitching matchup it
was between Gavin Williams for the Guardians and Christopher Sanchez
for the Phillies. Now the one too and strike three called.
He nailed the outside corner at ninety seven and the
third double digit strikeout game for Gavin Williams this year.
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That's number ten. Boy. The way these two guys are
pitching tonight, may take one home run to win it.
The one thing you're not going to do is string
together three four hits and score a runner. Two not
against these two guys. Sanchez and Williams. Now the one
pitch and he hits it off the end of the
band on the grass to first, easy played for Harper,
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and it's the middle of the eighth. It's still Cleveland
and Philly, no score. The one two swung on bounced
to second Basanta. The second one rookio turns two against
the speedster. How about that? Gavin Williams ninety nine pitches
through eight shutout innings donuts on the scoreboard at Citizens
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Bank Park. That's when the Guardians would get the game's
loan run thanks to Kyle Manzardo. One down, nobody on.
We're in the ninth inning. Duo ran into the winding pitch,
a swing and a high fly ball deep left field,
Marsh's back track walk of a pinchead home run by
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Kyle Manzardo, and the Guardians have a one nothing laid
here in the ninth inning, Manzardo off the bench with
that pinchead. Homer is fifth on the year and with
the Guardians in front one nothing. That means Caate Smith
was on for the bottom half of the ninth. Caate
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Smith is ready the pinch, swinging a chapter to first.
Manzardo Clubs goes to the bag himself. Bowl game. What
a game, A four hit shut up by Gavin Williams
and Caate Smith and a pinch at solo homer in
the ninth by Kyle Manzardo. Cleveland wins in Philly one nothing.
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So what a way to start the weekend for the Guardians.
It continues, weather permitting, on Saturday afternoon at four oh five,
and then Sunday afternoon the series and road trip wraps
up with a one third five first pitch Philly. Stay
with us when we come back. We'll hear from relief
pitcher Colin Holderman. I also have a farm report with
Stephen Osturer that's coming up on the Cleveland Clinic Radio Network.
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Welcome back to Guardians Weekly. Jim rosen House along with
you from Philadelphia Citizens Bank Park where the Guardians are
taking on the Phillies. This Weekend. Part of the Guardian's
recent success has been the work of their bullpen, including
Colin Holderman, who has assumed a late enning role now
in high leverage situations for The Guardian. He said, why not.
(19:00):
He picked up two wins this week in Detroit as
an earned run average of one point five zero after
thirteen appearances, and we caught up with him and asked
him about the keys to his success since he returned
from a brief stint at Triple A Columbus.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
You know, honestly, it's just taking it day by day,
you know, going in, you know, doing I gotta do,
doing the routine, getting ready and make sure the body's
in the right spot and then just attacking, you know,
not giving a free bases away and just be relentless
in the zone. And it's worked out in my favor.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
And you've had success before. And how how much do
you lean on that when you're trying to get to
a good place.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Yeah, you know, it's always tough. You know, this is
the hardest game in the world and it could be
relentless at times, but you know, we went through a
tough one last year. But just knowing I've done it before,
and I did it for three years straight, so it's
not like it happened on accident. Just getting back to
you know, being confident and being healthy also helps a lot,
and it's the best my body's felt. So we're in
(19:56):
a good spot and just keep stacking, get outing after
get outing.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Chang organizations. What's helped you here to reach a really good.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Spot, And definitely making the decision this offseason was there's
a few things I was taken, you know, into into
account and it was just, you know, the pitching department
here is unbelievable and just the culture is amazing as well.
So you know, when I was doing all my zoom calls,
this one definitely stood out to me and it was
an easy decision for me to come here. And you know,
it's lived up to everything so far. We got into camp,
we dialed in some mechanics just a little bit to
(20:26):
help me, you know, stay in plain. It's been easy
to throw strikes, and you know, just the culture has
been amazing. It's a winning culture, you know, really just
good people throughout the clubhouse and in the organization. So
it's an easy place to show up to work.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Colin Halderman's joining us a big part of what a bullpen.
It's really starting to come on and find itself. You
make the club affs spring training, but then you're with
the inevitable and bullpen. Sometimes you end up in the
minor leagues for a little bit. But it seemed like
you handle that very well at this stage of your career.
What allows you to do that where you can come
(20:58):
back and get good things done?
Speaker 4 (21:00):
You know, it's it's not the first time. You know,
last year I was optioned for the first time, you know,
and made it to arbitration before that happens. So I was,
you know, blessed beyond belief to do that. But uh,
you know, last year it was a little harder for me.
It was it was, uh, you know, pretty hard mentally.
You know how to work, and you know, it took
a while to get back, but it is just they
optioned me just to get some length.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
You know.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
It was something I saw, you know, I've been around
enough and I saw the roster was made that it
was gonna be me. I had options, and uh, I
just wanted to make myself as you know, of use
and I was like I could lengthen out if need be,
so I went down there, did that and then came
back through some length early and not throwing some leverage.
So I was just you know, taking it day by
day and I knew I'd be back here.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Can you go to to Triple A and kind of
have it be like your major leagues in an effort
to get back in terms of of how you view
ballparks and opponents and things like that, it.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Could definitely be hard. You know, it's the atmosphere, it
just isn't the same. You know, just kind of like
every time you go out there here, you know it
means something. You know, you're trying to you know, make money, win,
make postseason push something. You know, the just the adrenalines
at all time high. So it's definitely something you have
to adjust to there. And uh, because you're just really
working on stuff and trying to stack good outings. Of course,
(22:09):
but you're trying. You're there for a reason, and just
the guys they have there is awesome and they want
to win. Great coaching staff, you know, great players. So
it was easy to be there and just take it
day by day, and you know, through some good outings,
came back and it kept it.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Going and you come back to a bullpen and have
some characters out there, right. What's it been like out
there for you getting to know these guys and see
what makes them tick.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
You know, it's just a bunch of amazing people, you know,
and spring training, you know, got to be around them
for a little while and just see some of the characters.
That's you know, first off, amazing people, but definitely unique people.
And I think that's what makes a bullpend good. You know,
like everyone's really close. You know, we got each other's
backs and you've seen that in the game. It translates
and uh and we have fun out there during the game,
(22:51):
So that makes it easy and when you go on
there light, it's a lot easy to have success.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Colin nice going, Thanks a lot for coming by, appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
That's Colin hold Or been a veteran reliever who obviously
has been through a lot of ups and downs in
his career, but ecstatic to be with Cleveland and they
are happy to have him right now out of that
bullpen as well. Stay with us when we come back.
It's the weekly Farm Report that's next on the Cleveland
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Speaker 1 (24:00):
Rosenhou's back with you from Philadelphia, our final segment of
Guardians Weekly, and it's a weekly farm report with Steven Ostro,
the vice president of player development for the Guardians, and
we're talking single a Hill City. The Howlers out of Lynchburg,
Virginia play in the Carolina League, that's the Low A League,
and we talked about Dari Fernandez, an infielder who we
(24:23):
saw back in spring training see some significant time in
major league games, and he's one of many top prospects
in Lynchburg.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
Yeah, the Hill Speed group, to your point, has got
a lot of energy, has spent a week there and
they're really fun to watch the young guys. But Darry's
one of those players who's young. He's really talented. He's
a switch hitting infielder who's played a lot of his
time last year in the Arizona Complex level and he's
got a small taste of the affiliate life last year
(24:53):
and win winning that championship, and he's a really interesting profile. Offensively,
he's got really wrong back to ball skills, but is
also aggressive in zone.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
And out of the zone, tends to chase pitches sometimes,
but still remains really productive at the plate. So there's
been a lot of work.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
You know, cleaning up the swing decisions, getting him to
understand and stay within more of his like targeted swing zones,
and that's been a strong emphasis to start the year.
And you know, he's he's really gifted as an athlete
and spends a lot of his time on the left
side of the infield, but he's pretty much handled every
day shortstop duties with an injury the last few weeks
(25:32):
for one of our other infielders. You know, he's got
a plus arm strength out there. He's a strong and
accurate thrower. He's got good actions and the presence at
the position and he's developing really well there. So it's
been exciting to see him get a lot more of
those playing reps at shortstop, and like a lot of
these young players, there's just a huge tie into the
physical development, like we've talked about and how that fits
(25:55):
to just the long term view of what he could be.
And you know, we're looking to continue to build off
of a really good offseason where we saw him tack
on some strength and power and muscle mass, and you know,
there's still some frame to go and some work to
be done there and you know, we think that will
translate long term to more power and punch offensively, but
you know, handling the position really well right now and
(26:16):
doing a lot of good things.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
And he's just a fun one to watch.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
A couple of outfielders down at Hill City, let's start
with Robert Arius. It looks like some really good numbers
across the boarding, including an OPS over eight hundred.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
Yeah, he's he's an incredibly talented player, really really exciting
guy to watch. He's shown very strong offensive performance so
far to start the year in Hill City, and yeah,
I think that's a lot of that's driven by just
great decisions at the plate and really strong back to
ball skills similar to to Dari, but maybe a little
(26:51):
bit more selective in his approach.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
And I think there's some work.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
To be done still in the back path and that's
been a focus for him, just trying to squeeze a
little bit more productive ball flight, because he does hit
the ball really well, but trying to get it that
maybe more productive angles. And you know, we saw a
lot of productive physical development to this offseason and another
one of these guys that took a step forward and
maximize his time this offseason to build the engine, so
(27:16):
to speak, and we saw that translate to some beast
speed games and he is impacting the ball a little
bit harder. But now it's been fun to see him
develop offensively and you know, put up and perform to
start the year. But I think the more exciting part
for Areas is just like how fast he is in
some of the plays he's able to make in the
outfield that you can track the ball down with the
(27:37):
best of them. On the base pass, He's the type
of guy who's going to steal a couple of bags,
you know when you blink, and he's got this magnetic.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Personality, so the players and the staff love being around him.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
He's just this great teammate, high energy, fun to watch,
solid routines, and you know he's really young too for
the level. So he's drawn a lot of excitement for
the crop of guys that we have.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
He's been one that stuck.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Out and another nice looking outfielder ju Niker Cassis kind
of some similar numbers to t Arius, But what are
you seeing from him that stands out to you?
Speaker 7 (28:11):
Yeah, he was one of the guys that got out
last year as well, except he got out as a
seventeen year old at full season affiliate, which is unusual,
so to speak.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
And he's got polished and toise that is beyond his age.
Speaker 7 (28:26):
And you know, his surface numbers right now or maybe
a take above average to start the year, but under
the hood.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
They're really really strong.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
He's another one of these guys that's that's gifted with
his back to ball skills.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Maybe a touch more than some of the others, and
has a really good eye and handle his zone.
Speaker 7 (28:44):
He's going to take a ton of walks and not
strike out. But I think the long term focus is
just trying to make slight adjustments to that path to
get a little bit more of productive ball flight similar
to some of these other guys, and tap into more power,
you know, long term, as he continues to physically develop,
And of course he's he was really long young last year.
(29:05):
He's still very young for the level and just has
an incredible base to build upon. So I think this
is something that's going to take time for him, at
least with the swing. But you know, he's just an
incredibly talented offensive player. Yeah, he's performed really well, and
bri are as excited about Juni as we are as anyone.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Else in the system.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
And you have a big, strong first basement with Hill
City Anthony Martinez. I thought it was interesting you had
mentioned during his college career he had a very much
different approach at the plate to what he's working with
now and how has the current set up for him
helped him tremendously in pro ball.
Speaker 7 (29:44):
Yeah, yeah, Anthony is a big, very strong, left handed
hitting first baseman that he is crushing the ball coming
out of the gates. To your point, he was a
college guy who took him last year maybe a little
bit more of like the polished college bad well rounded,
not not a guy who you know, maybe hit for power, had.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
An offensively, you know, do damage mindset.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
I think it was more of a balanced approach, and
when we got him, we learned that maybe there was
a little bit of a shift in mindset that we
could tap into to go out and just like hammer
baseballs versus just try to make contact.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
And he's got really good back to ball skill, so I.
Speaker 7 (30:24):
Think they kind of leaned into that, and he leaned
into that identity probably in college a little bit more
than where we would think he could be successful moving forward.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
So credit to him.
Speaker 7 (30:34):
He's he's kind of flipped a little bit of a
mindset and he's made some slight adjustments to his swing
to drive the ball a little bit more in the
air and think about doing more damage, and that's resulted
in him tapping into some pretty elite eggs.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
And velocities and he's he's did some.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
Home runs and it's been fun to see that flip
a little bit for him, and he's come out really
hot in that level and you know, a bit of
an older college bat for the level of times you'd
expect guys to go and do well, but he's he
is dominating level, so.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
To speak, offensively, so that's been really fun.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
And we'll turn to the mound and do you have
an award winner, a Carolina League Award winner for the
early portion of the schedule left hand or Harrison Bodendorf.
And what's Modendorf done to really stand out in the
early season.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yeah, it's always fun having an early award.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
And yeah, Harrison came out and pitched extremely well over
the starts that he's made in April. And this was
a left handed college arm that we took last year
in the draft that he was maybe a tick on
the Polish side when we took him, and you know,
we thought there's a lot of development left to gain,
(31:48):
and he was a performer strikethrower, and you know, there
are some things that we could tap into from a
velocity standpoint and things that we could kind of build
upon as we got him. So he's got a unique
slot with a fastball. It's going to play above it's
current velocity, which is holding down maybe in the low nineties.
It's it's more east to west. From from an arsenal standpoint,
(32:11):
he's got a really good change up. He's done a
phenomenal job of just controlling counts and getting ahead and
that's resulted him not really walking anyone, and his stuff
has played up because of it, and he's striking out
about thirty six percent of the batters.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Facing, which is a lot. And again, I think the
long term vision firm.
Speaker 7 (32:31):
Here is gives just hinge on him continuing to gain
velocity over time. This is probably more of a slow
drip than it is, you know, a hurried rush, and
we've seen some of that development already, so that party
is really exciting. He's got a big frame, he's a
big guy. There's a lot of room left for growth physically,
so we're seeing that upper trajectory to start his professional
(32:53):
career and we think that we can continue to see
that moving forward. So Bodendorf has come out as hot
as anyone.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
In that league obviously, and there's a lot to like
in build upon for the future.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Another young pitcher we've talked about on occasion Joey Oak,
the former high round draft pick, and you look at
his season so far, very very young still certainly, and
there's some strikeout in there, there's some walks in there,
and what are you seeing as he continues to develop
at a full season level.
Speaker 7 (33:23):
Yeah, he got that taste of the affiliate life last
year at the end and to start the heear he's had,
you know, a few dominant starts where he's flash signs
and that ceiling and.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
What that could look like down the road.
Speaker 7 (33:37):
And you know, he's coming out sitting ninety five ninety six.
He'll get up to one hundred miles an hour in
the early innings, and he's got a really unique release
thought that kind of jumps on you. He spent a
lot of time this offseason effort trying to develop a
bigger slider and you know, working to pair that with
a shorter.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
One and developing the changeup.
Speaker 7 (33:57):
And you know, we've talked about this all the time,
where you know, when you have these really young pitchers,
you throw hard, and they move their body really fast,
and they're developing physically and they're trying to work on pitches.
We try to simplify it as much as we can.
And when you try to do that and you're here
trying to mix all these other pieces of the puzzles together,
you can have inconsistency and performance, and that's to be expected.
(34:21):
So you know, as much as we'd love for him
to go out and execute all those pitches all the
time and not walk anyone and you know, throw one
hundred miles an hour. That that's just not a realistic expectation.
And we're good with with what he is showing. We're
really excited about where the ceiling is, and we are
pulling the right levers to you know, work on the
(34:44):
things that we need to work on long term, which
again is just polishing the arsenal and gaining consistency and
being able to have feel for those pitches and carrying
that over from inning to inning. And you know, when
I was there last week, the first two innings were
as electric because as you could see, you know, you're like,
drop this guy right now to a major league environment
for those two innings and he's going to be totally fine.
(35:05):
Then the third inning it's him trying to figure out
how to get that consistency back when he misses a
few pitches. So this is to be expected with Joe
and a really really talented young man and an incredible
work ethic and worker. And we're excited about this year
and him taking another step forward.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
And one last pitcher to talk about tremendous numbers across
the board and again a little bit older. But Nelson Keljoe,
what do you have on him?
Speaker 7 (35:32):
Yeah, another one of the draft picks college draft picks
from last year. He was a sixth rounder Storry out
of Oregon State and wasn't a guy who got a
lot of starter ups in college.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
So a lot of this is still kind of new
to him.
Speaker 7 (35:46):
He's trying to make that transition and it's been a
huge focus for him, obviously figuring out what it means
to build up as a starter, and what's the starter
routine look like, and how do I recover between outings
and you know, what is a typical intention look like,
what does my pregame intensity look like, what does the
volume look like in a pen? And then on top
(36:06):
of that, just without a ton of the call started reps.
It's also trying to build out and expand the arsenal.
So he was closer to eighty percent fastball in college
at times. It's a really good pitch.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
It's a weapon that he has had in the past
and has now, and.
Speaker 7 (36:21):
It's about working to expand everything else and work more
on the slider work, get the change up working in there.
And we think both of those pitches they flashed promise.
It's just trying to develop them and get them into
game and doing that while also worrying about everything else
that is required to build up and we'll find what
it means to be a starter. So we've seen his
(36:41):
fastball bump up to ninety eight in spring training. He's
just learning how to access that now and hold it
as a starter, because that's a different thing as you're
building up volume. So we don't know what role they'll
end up down the line, but the stuff is really
encouraging from kel Joe. He's got an ability to throw strikes,
making game adjustments, He's open.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
To learning and growing. He works hard. So Nelson's a
little bit older for the level.
Speaker 7 (37:09):
And I think a little bit greener than a lot
of his peers as it relates to just understanding what
it is to actually be a starter.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
So there's a lot of room for growth.
Speaker 7 (37:20):
But the base with a lefty who can sit back
and throw a ninety eight mile an hour fastball with
really good characteristics to the pitch results in hopefully some
really nice long term success.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Well, I know the most are ways away from the
major leagues, but it's exciting to hear about what could
be for a lot of these guys and asty. Always
fun to have you along. Thank you, Thank you, Rosie.
As always, thanks to Steven Oster for stopping by and
filling us in on some of the best and brightest
in the farm system for the Guardians. That's going to
(37:55):
do it for our show this week. Thanks as always
to Brian Matse for all of his help putting together
the show each and every week. We will join you
next weekend back home that Progressive field. Until then, this
is Jim rosen House reminding you that you've been listening
to Guardian's Weekly, the Cleveland Clinic radio that work. Guardians
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