The Guardians lost to the A’s and moved on to Kansas City while making some significant prospect moves at the same time.
Deborah had the recap. She has really drawn the short straw with Sunday recaps but she always does a good job, anyway. Chase DeLauter homered. The Guardians just couldn’t knock Aaron Civale out, which is annoying. Parker Messick had a rough game, but that’ll happen.
The Guardians promoted Angel Genao to Triple-A Columbus. Genao had a 125 wRC+ at Akron with a 17/21 K/BB%. Making it to Triple-A as
a 21 year-old is super impressive. I’d like to see if he can find a little more power (.113 ISO so far) and reduce that 54% groundball rate. I would not expect him to be in Cleveland until 2027, even with this promotion.
Justin Campbell moved from Lake County to Akron. While trying to prove he has put injury concerns behind him, Campbell has put up a 2.40 ERA/1.96 FIP and a 13.2/3 K/BB/9 in High-A. Time to see if he can do the same kind of tortures to Double-A hitters. …If so, things start to get pretty exciting.
Finally, Jaison Chourio moved from Lake County to Akron as well. Chourio has opened with a 142 wRC+, .167 ISO, 18.6/17.5% K/BB. He had 10 games in center, 5 games in right and 2 games in left with the Captains. Nice to see the 20 year-old switch-hitter bouncing back after an uneven 2025.
AROUND MLB:
Tigers, Twins and Royals won, and the White Sox lost. The Tigers and Guardians are tied atop the Central.
