Locked On Guardians - Daily Podcast On The Cleveland Guardians

It seemed like the Cleveland Guardians had a strong offensive-catching prospect to graduate to the majors in 2023 in Bo Naylor. What is there to take away from his lack of offense in 2024 but improving his defense?

This episode discusses Bo Naylor's offensive struggles in 2024 but defensive gains, as well as Austin Hedges' role being helped by David Fry's breakout before he was hurt.

We also get into the Guardians minor league catching prospects, Cooper Ingle, Jacob Cozart, and Kody Huff. And could Ralphy Velazquez return to catching in 2025? Listen to find out more.

2:07 Guardians Catchers Review

7:08 Bo Naylor's Performance

10:45 Bo Naylor's Adjustments

14:14 Defensive Improvements

17:23 Austin Hedges' Role

21:48 David Fry's Impact

25:10 Catching Prospects

34:01 Kody Huff's Potential

35:34 Ralphy Velasquez's Future

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Who could the Cleveland Guardians target in trades this off-season to upgrade their rotation with players other teams are looking to trade? And could they take advantage of other teams looking to shed salary for a chance?

On a Trade Talk Thursday edition of Locked On Guardians, we look at a pair of trade the Guardians could make with Arizona, who is getting calls about its starting pitching, and the Cardinals, who are looking to dump salary.

We also discuss the Guardians promoting minor league hitting coordinator Grant Fink to their major League hitting coach.

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Who would the Cleveland Guardians protect in an expansion draft?  

We explore the 15 most important players on the Guardians roster that they would protect and discuss the value of players like Andres Gimenez, Triston McKenzie, Logan Allen, Lane Thomas and more going into 2025 and long term among the next group of six they would would have to consider in the next wave.  

0:36 Expansion Draft Discussion

4:27 Expansion Draft Rules

6:37 Player Protection Strategy

8:38 Andres Gimenez's Contract

15:22 First Three Out

18:58 Pitching Protection

22:25 Ben Lively vs. Triston McKenzie

31:18 Bottom of the Roster

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The Cleveland Guardians need impact prospects with impact tools in order to graduate from their farm system or to trade from.  

Who are those prospects with the most impactful tools in the Cleveland Guardians farm system? On a top 10 Tuesday edition of the show, we draft the top 10 prospect tools in the system and debate the impact, upside and risk of those tools and the Guardians draft and development strategy.

5:00 Guardians' Draft Strategy

10:00 Daniel Espino's Potential

15:00 Andrew Walters' Fastball

20:00 Ralphy Velazquez's Power

25:00 Travis Bazzana's Hit Tool

30:00 Chase DeLauter's Power

35:00 Braylon Doughty's Curveball

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This episode discusses how the predictions for Shane Bieber and Matthew Boyd's free agent markets are all over the place and what that means for the Cleveland Guardians and what approach they may take to negotiating with either play to return to Cleveland.

We also talk about the very quiet GM meetings and why Cleveland could be in an interesting position on the trade market if teams resort to trading major league players for major league players rather than prospects.

And we spend a good chunk of time discussing how the market for Roski Sasaki could impact Cleveland in a good way.

5:01 Shane Bieber Market

10:09 Pitching Value Uncertainty

15:09 Matthew Boyd's Future

20:03 Financial Concerns in Free Agency

25:31 Roki Sasaki's Potential Impact

30:13 International Free Agency Dynamics

35:32 Minor League Signing

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