Guardians News and Notes: It’s Not Getting Any Easier

The Guardians picked a bad time to be stymied by a bullpen game and now they’ll need to figure out tough lefty Andrew Abbot to escape Cincinnati with one win against the Reds.

You can read Zach’s recap here, and my plea for the team to show some urgency with the dire situation in right field here. I realize they’re not going to do anything right now, but it felt good to write it, anyway.

Here’s Terry Pluto on Gabriel Arias. Here’s Tim Stebbins on Slade Cecconi’s excellent season debut yesterday. Here’s an article from FanGraphs’ Davy Andrews about pull-rate and squared-up-rate where Jose Ramirez shows up as a pull-rate god.

Sounds like Ben Lively is gonna end up getting Tommy John to me. I…