Rent Came Due for the Guardians

All of Guardians fans are wondering why Emmanuel Clase looks mortal and the Cleveland bullpen has faltered in this ALCS.

After a short sleep, I have realized that the issue is simple: the Guardians ran up a bill by overusing their bullpen this season and during the playoffs and rent has come due.

Cade Smith has thrown 30 more pitches this month than he did in September. He is at 84.2 innings for the year. Clase has been asked to come in for multiple innings multiple times and is at a career high in innings of 81.1. These are career highs for both. Tim Herrin has thrown six more innings this year than he did last year... and all of them have been high stress innings. All of these guys are…