Guardians News and Notes: Vogt Interview and Spring Breakout
News and Notes for Thursday, March 14th, 2025
Stephen Vogt was interviewed on MLB Network. He brought up Chase DeLauter unprompted as a player who can help them this season... but this was probably filmed earlier, sadly.
AL Manager of the Year and an ALCS appearance in his first season, not too shabby!@CleGuardians skipper Stephen Vogt joined us to talk through his takeaways from year one, what makes José Ramírez such a joy to manage and more.@SageUSAmerica | @TMobile pic.twitter.com/9vQzsXLxAd
— MLB Network (@MLBNetwork) March 13, 2025
I think he’s a manager trying to boost the confidence of a player who may be feeling dejected that he can’t stay healthy... and he’s probably worried about what is happening in right field on his team because, hey, who isn’t?
Tonight is the Spring Breakout game, featuring the Guardians’ top prospects vs. the Mariner’s top prospects at 8:05PM EST. The major league teams will square off at 3:05PM EST. Here’s MLB.com’s Tim Stebbins’ preview of the game.
The Guardians lost to the Rockies yesterday and Luis Ortiz looked shaky leading to much hand-wringing on the internet from Guardians’ fans. I’m not concerned yet. But, I am concerned about Paul Sewald who looks like he’ll be having me reaching for the Alka Selzer a lot.
John Means told MLB.com’s Tim Stebbins that he wanted to come to Cleveland because of the good reputation they have for rehabbing pitchers. Also mentioned in the linked article above is that Andrew Walters should be back pitching in games soon after shoulder discomfort.
Paul Hoynes’ wrote about Gabriel Arias and his quest to win the second base job this Spring.
Matt Dallas and I reunited for a Disgusting Baseball Podcast where we previewed the Spring Breakout game and talking about other Spring Training storylines.