The Guardians mainly continued to apply their magic touch in 2025, winning many tight matches, even if they sort the inconsistency or insufficiency on the list. According to us put a few superlatives to commemorate a solid start for the Stephen Vogt club.
Very likely to make everyone laugh at the Prospects’ classification: Daniel Schneemann
His percentage of double-A Akron slugging in 2022 was 0.292. Again, it was him Strike percentage. Its percentage of slugging in 2025 (entering the game on Monday) against the pitching of the big leagues was 0.548. What a rise for a guy who changed his swing mechanics and his approach after this miserable season as 25 years that gets tired of minors. He saw a peak production the following year in Triple -A Columbus, left an impression on the coaches in spring training in 2024, reinforced his production again in Columbus, then reached the majors – and stuck. It erases the fast bullets. So why do launchers throw fast bullets for him? Because he is patient enough on the plate (with healthy walking and prosecution rates) to force the pitcher in the area.
For years, the Guardians have raised intermediate field prospects such as babies. Schneemann has never written the main lists of prospects. However, it is he who has a daily playing time in the middle.
The most likely to play an injury: José Ramírez
He walked the wrist at the end of March and missed a match. He walked his ankle on Friday and missed a match. He has a talent to fight in most diseases, so it goes without saying that it is a little beaten, which could explain why his figures are more pedestrians (according to his standards) than usual. In a missing program of coherent threats, it is more blatant.
Ramírez examined the Brayan Rocchio torpedo bat One morning last week. While the third basic player returned to his locker, he shouted, in particular: “I need strokes, bro!” Nolan Jones, standing nearby, shook his head and said: “Do you not have two yesterday?” The best strikers are often the most greedy.
The most likely to break drought without Cleveland cut 44 years old: Gavin Williams
The most likely not to escape the first round after launching 55 locations: Gavin Williams
Pure things are there, hence the thought without strike, if he could gather everything for nine sleeves. But so many of his outings were slogs, with a complete count for apparently each striker. He walks a small village. He takes out a slightly more populated village. It is a section that arouses memories (or, perhaps, nightmares) of Danny Salazar around 2014. Salazar started in April in Chicago in which he withdrew 10 in 3 2/3 rounds, but he only lasted for a long time because he grants six strokes and five points and launched 93 throws.
Salazar had a dirty arsenal, and he set up everything in 2015 and 2016. Maybe Williams will follow suit.
There are probably not many advantages on a trip to Triple-A Columbus. We just watched him dominate the strikers to Goodyear, Arizona, all spring. He must understand this at the level of the big leagues.
The most irritating striker for opposing launchers to face: Steven Kwan
Consider his third stick in the stick against the ace of the Blue Jays Kevin Gausman on Saturday:
Pitch 1 (0-0): Take a low cursor, 81.6 MPH
Pitch 2 (1-0): Fund a separator of 86.9 MPH in the area
Pitch 3 (1-1): Fund A separator of 88.5 MPH a little low and outside
Pitch 4 (1-2): Fund a quick ball of 96.0 mPh a little above the area
Pitch 5 (1-2): Fund a quick ball of 97.8 MPH in the area
Pitch 6 (1-2): takes a separator of 89.4 MPH outside
Pitch 7 (2-2): Fund a quick ball of 95.9 MPH in the area
Pitch 8 (2-2): Fund a quick bullet of 95.5 MPH on his hands
Pitch 9 (2-2): Take a quick ball of 89.2 MPH under the area
Pitch 10 (3-2): slaps a separator of 87.1 MPH on the plate outside for a simple left field
It was a clinic of patience, contact and understanding of the launcher’s attack plan. It was also the only cleveland hit to the eighth round. Kwan never panics when he is in the account. His discipline never vacillates. It’s really a treat to look at. He ran the number of Hauts de Gausman; Otherwise, maybe Gausman would have launched an additional round, and perhaps, in one way or another, that would have prevented the goalkeepers from returning to win.
The most likely to hit baseball out of the dashboard on the progressive field: Jhonkensy Noel
John Adams would remain in the Christmas splash area if he was still with us. Noel launched a circuit in orbit last week which beat a sigen seat a few rows from the top of the section, where Adams was seated with his 26-inch bass drum for almost half a century. There may not be a softer view than watching Christmas to flex your muscles on the plate, then to ease your bat easily as if there was no other possible result. The problem is that these circuits have been a rarity. He has two, as well as two walks as part of a right field peloton that would succeed power but which loses the patience of viewers.
Best measures which, unfortunately, have not translated: Nolan Jones
We can continue to cite its output speed and speed and the hard -hit walk rate, but until it translates in addition to blows, it will fall into the ears of a deaf. Jones is short of options, so he is stuck on the list of large leagues. The guards do not give up someone they exchanged in Tyler Freeman six weeks ago, so he will have to understand it.
Here is a problem:
Jones vs Fast Balls, 2023: .299 average, .502 Percentage of strikes
Jones vs Fast balls, 2025: .087 average, .109 Slugging percentage
The worst measures which, fortunately, have not translated: Ben Lively
There is something to say about his tenacity and his mental approach, which, according to him, has evolved enormously since he was a young head of the head on the mound, always looking for a wall to strike after a brutal sleeve. Lively was not won when he was plunged in an opening day at the last minute because Tanner Bibee gained on a doubtful price of Kansas City. He was not disconcerted when he opposed an ace in almost every departure for the first month of the season (Cole Ragans twice, Dylan stops, Paul Skenes).
Perhaps we sell it short if we say that he is doing on the guts and the grain when he does a solid job to hit his spots and limit walks. Although his fast ball goes to 90.1 MPH and that he rarely lacks bats or induces ground balls, he does precisely what he did last season when he submitted a year of career, regularly bailing out a turnover of Cleveland in difficulty. What pick-up it was in December 2023 on a minimimum-not announced league agreement, under the radar and undeniably pivot.
The launcher is ready to make the predictions of regression of insane people: Hunter Gaddis
The forecasts made sense. He made more appearances (including the playoffs) than any launcher of the league last year (86, with Tim Herrin, Emmanuel Clase and Cade Smith just behind him before the lifts of another team joined the list). He also came out of nowhere, given that he was built as a starter last spring before settling in a rescue role in March and ending like the guy in the eighth round by April.
This season, it was exceptional. Look at the metrics on its scholarly baseball page and you will see a sea of vibrating red, thanks to sparkling prices, prosecution, stick withdrawal and for sure. He launches his cursor about 60% of the time, and he obtained a pile of swing-and-miss on his three locations.
The launcher at each Clevelander would trust his life: Cade Smith
Does he already look shaken or intimidated by a situation? He is almost always confronted at the heart of the programming of the other team in a tight match in the late heats, but he displays the same emotion as a lawn of the lawn that he breaks with each assignment. His statistics at the surface level and his data under the hood resemble last year, when he became one of the best lifts in sport. You would trust him in any situation – the ninth, the sixth, against a herd of stars hits or to monitor your dog while you are on vacation. It is the rare lifter of which the jogging of the mound does not increase the blood pressure of its fans base.
(Photo by Steven Kwan and Daniel Schnemann: Jason Miller / Getty Images)
