Guardians notes: Parker Messick Watch, the return of Triston McKenzie and the updates of key prospects

Cleveland – The Cleveland Guardians need a launcher leaving for Wednesday.

They did not do duty Need a starter for Wednesday, but they chose to need it. They optionized Joey Cantillo in Triple-A Columbus and instructed him to pepper the typing area with fast bullets, changes and curve balls. He had done it in the big leagues, but not as regularly as he or the club would have preferred him.

During its last five departures, Cantillo issued 16 balls on bullets in 25 1/3 rounds. It’s a lot of self-inflicted stress. However, Cantillo recorded a 3.55 MPM in this section. There is nothing wrong with that (even if it makes you ask you what its ceiling is if it can snack less). When asked why Cantillo cannot simply work on his strike launch at the level of the big leagues, the deputy director general Matt Forman said, well, words that would lead to thinking that it is not really in Cantillo.

“Decisions like this are difficult,” said Forman. “There are many factors that enter them. We balance victory and development. ”

So, really, it could be a practical way to look at someone else in rotation.

No, it will not be John means, which launched 38 locations in the start of rehabilitation for class A County of class A Friday. The means should make another rehabilitation start this week and could extend to around 50 locations. It will be part of the equation in September.

What about Parker Messick, the choice of the second round of Cleveland in Florida State in 2022? If the guards, let’s say, Tab Messick to start in Arizona this week, there is room to add it to the list of 40 men, because the club recently exceeded Trevor Stephan to erase a place. Messick has an MPM of 3.47 in 20 departures in Columbus this season, with 42 goals on balls and 119 stick withdraws in 98 2/3 heats.

Athletic Keith Law wrote this spring that Messick “has excellent deception and quickly moves through its delivery, which seems to help unbalanced strikers” and that he profiled as a starter n ° 3 with an increase above average. Messick has increased its speed in the past two years and added a lead.

“He answered the call,” said Stephen Over, director of Cleveland players development.

Now he will get THE call?

Guardians always weigh their options for the opportunity – that which they have intentionally created.

Three McKenzie

When did you think of McKenzie for the last time, the former Robin at Batman by Shane Bieber in the rotation of Cleveland? The 28 -year -old made four appearances for the Guardians at the start of the regular season before being appointed for assignment. McKenzie has spent the past four months to face adolescents at the Guardians complex in Goodyear, Arizon, he finally escaped the desert and launched for Triple-A Columbus on Sunday.

McKenzie granted an unprecedented race and two walks in a round. Its quick ball was seated in the 93-96 MPH range. He will continue to work from the enclosure of Columbus readers. He can become a free agent of the minor leagues at the end of the season.

“It was a long road for Triston,” said Ouvre. … “In many ways, it challenges Triston, but it has been released in a fairly good place right now. We are delighted to see what it can do for the coming weeks.”

Juan Brito

The Columbus Clippers Triple-A Columbus have a month of games to play, so the clock turns to Delaute and Brito when they returned from injuries that could have cost them a big league start in 2025.

Delauter is a little more than three weeks withdrawn from an operation to remove the hook from the hammate bone in his right hand. The usual calendar for a return of this procedure is six to eight weeks. He resumed baseball activity and tended to promote major league when he started to feel pain that led to surgery. Due to several injuries, Delaute has only appeared in 138 games since the Guardians selected it in the first round of the 2022 draft.

“He can exhaust a player mentally, by handing him again,” said Osterer, “and especially when it is another part of the body. … He has gone a long way in the past two years (in the way of managing) these things.”

Brito, on the other hand, is removed about six weeks from suffering from a severe tension of the right hamstrings. He took over the swing, the jet and the defensive exercises. Now he has to build his race. The typical time of return to playing action is eight to 12 weeks.

Brito has totaled 24 games in Triple this season, thanks to a pair of important injuries. He was arguing for the second concert of the Guardians opening day during training in the spring. Now he is on the verge of a mainly waxed season.

Ralphy Velazquez

There may not be a crumbling minor league batter more than that that Ralphy Velazquez has manipulated the last two months. Over the past seven weeks, it has an. 360 / .440 / .691.

The Guardians promoted Velazquez at Double-A Akron last week, and the production of the first base player did not slow down against more rigid competition. Consider his first four games at the affiliate:

1. 1-Pour-4 with a triple and a walk
2. 2-Pour-4 with a double
3. 3-Pour-4 with two circuits, a double and a walk
4. 3-Pour-5 with a circuit, a double and a walk

Velazquez, who was 20 years old at the end of May, is one of the youngest players at the Double A level. (According to Guardians data, there are only four position players and a younger launcher than Velazquez.) He had a slow start in class county to this season, but the Cleveland front office thought that a turnaround was inevitable given his promising underlying measures. Velazquez is leading all Cleveland’s prospects with 21 circuits this season.

Khal Stephen

Just as Shane Bieber is preparing for his first outing in the big league this week since April 2, 2024, the prospect that the Guardians received from Blue Jays in exchange for Bieber last month approaching a return to playing. Stephen, which MLB Pipeline ranked seventh on the list of prospects in Cleveland, was confronted with an impact of the right shoulder. He launched a live enclosure on Friday and will launch another two -round session this week. Guardians believe that he could help their big league club next season.

Daniel Espino and Sam Hentges

Hentges launched the last time on July 10, 2024, before undergoing surgery to repair the anterior capsule in his left shoulder. The objective is that he is in good health when he arrived at spring training in February. (Well, he is technically already there, since he lives in the region and has rehabilitated in the team’s facilities since the procedure.) He should start a mound progression in September.

Espino appeared for the last time in a match in April 2022. Since then, he endured a pair of shoulder surgeries, and a conversation on the old hope has gone from “have you seen how much he launched and how many withdrawals he accumulated?” “Do you remember him?”

Espino has launched the club’s Arizona complex in recent months, with a few recovery periods integrated into its program. He recently finished one of these load stretches and has taken over sessions of enclosure of the lifts. He will not present a subsidiary this year.

“When we had him for the first time and he was younger,” said uver, “he was very focused on the details and everything he did.

Tyler Naquin

Imagine that it was told a few years ago that Naquin would be ahead of McKenzie on the organization depth of the organization of the organization in 2025. OK, so it may not be exactly the case now that McKenzie returned to Columbus and Naquin is a work in progress, but what a bizarre path that the two players have traveled.

Naquin, who went to pitch, has reached a little rough distribution in the county of Lake. He walked three consecutive outings and needed 35 locations to record two withdrawals on Sunday. Of course, each development with him comes with the warning that, after 12 years in the professional ranks as a Voltger, it is still new in this pitching thing. And the guards are encouraged by the growth he has demonstrated.

Osterer said Naquin’s quick ball is in the process of 92-96 MPH.

“He has very good things,” said osses. “It’s just consistency.

(Top photo of Parker Messick: Brett Davis / Imagn Images)