The Philadelphia Phillies just finished a sweep of the defending World Series champion Texas Rangers. Philadelphia has won 29 of its last 35 games and is 37-14 on the season. It doesn't really matter what your opponents' records are if you're emasculating them every single day.
1. If every player on the Guardians had the makeup and mentality of Austin Hedges, we would win 110 games.
2. Austin Hedges makes it his singular purpose to make sure every other player on this team has his makeup and mentality.
These Cleveland Guardians City Connect jerseys I've waited years for are not as bad as I feared, but still extremely disappointing compared to what other teams like the Rays have released recently. Nothing that makes you want to rush out and buy anything
Guards thoughts
Nick Sandlin will end up pitching high leverage innings soon
Tell Andres Gimenez and Bo Naylor to start taking pitches
I’m perfectly comfortable with Tanner Bibee pitching G1 of a playoff series
Carl Willis deserves his flowers for how the bullpen has looked
Someone explain to me how Kwan getting picked off wasn’t a balk please
I’m not saying it was, but that rule is very confusing and I feel like the only point of that rule is to prevent a pitcher from tricking a batter into thinking they’ve started to pitch…which I thought he had