Cleveland Baseball Mornings: A Guardians Fan Podcast

It's Games 10 and 11 of the 2022 Season and the Cleveland Guardians sweep the double header over the Chicago White Sox, game one 11-1 and game two 2-1. On today’s show we're talking about the Guardians huge rally in game 1, Bieber dominates working ahead while McKenzie survives working behind, and naming our MVP for the Day. If you want to share your thoughts on the game or anything Cleveland base...

It's Game 9 of the 2022 Season and the Cleveland Guardians get swept by the San Francisco Giants with an 8-1 loss. On today’s show we're talking about the Guardians rough defense, starting innings with runners on base, Alex Wood getting the called strikes, and naming our MVP for the Day. If you want to share your thoughts on the game or anything Cleveland baseball you can find me on Twitter @davey...

It's Game 8 of the 2022 Season and the Cleveland Guardians lose another one to the San Francisco Giants 4-2. On today’s show we're talking about what the teams did with the bases loaded, where they were pitching Guardians hitters, Franmil Reyes' swing and miss numbers, and naming our MVP for the Day (completely forgot but would have been Myles Straw). If you want to share your thoughts on the game...

It's Game 7 of the 2022 Season and the Cleveland Guardians returned to Progressive Field for their home opener only to fall to the San Francisco Giants 4-1. On today’s show we're talking about how good Carlos Rodón is at striking out Cleveland Hitters, José Ramírez reaching 1000 hits, and naming our MVP for the Day. If you want to share your thoughts on the game or anything Cleveland baseball you...

It's Game 6 of the 2022 Season and the Cleveland Guardians sweep the short series over the Cincinnati Reds and bring home the coveted Ohio Cup with a 7-3 win. On today’s show we're talking about what's changed this season for Owen Miller and Oscar Mercado, how the Guardians faired facing rookie pitcher and #2 ranked Reds prospect Nick Lodolo, and naming our MVP for the Day. If you want to share yo...

It's Game 5 of the 2022 Season and the Cleveland Guardians spoil the home opener for the Cincinnati Reds with a 10-5 victory. On today’s show we're talking about the Guardians finishing rallies, Bieber having it until he didn't, the Guardians leading MLB in so many offensive catagories, and naming our MVP for the Day. If you want to share your thoughts on the game or anything Cleveland baseball yo...

It's Game 4 of the 2022 Season and the Cleveland Guardians even up their record at 2-2 with a 10-7 win over the Kansas City Royals. On today’s show we're talking about some of the pitch sequencing that let to the Guardians big hits, how Ramirez and Reyes get the job done on two of the weakest hit balls on the day, how the Guardians bullpen held things together, and naming our MVP for the Day. If y...

It's Game 3 of the 2022 Season and the Cleveland Guardians offense has come alive to beat the Kansas City Royals 17-3. On today’s show we're talking about Steven Kwan setting rookie records, where the pitch location was on Oscar Mercado's Grand Slam, the rest of the offensive explosion, and naming our MVP for the Day (it only took me 3 games to remember that segment). If you want to share your tho...

It's Game 2 of the 2022 Season and the Kansas City Royals win it in extras over the Cleveland Guardians 1-0. On today’s show we're talking about both teams opportunities in the 10th inning, Kwan's continued excellence getting on base, and why Zach Plesac hasn't impressed as much as the other Cleveland starters. Plus we'll talk about Myles Straw's contract extension and what the Guardians are getti...

It's Game 1 of the 2022 Season (Opening Day!!!) and the Cleveland Guardians fall after an 8th inning rally to the Kansas City Royals 3-1. Today’s show is going to sound a little funny because I am not recording from home but we will be talking about my big news, Shane Bieber’s opening day start, how Rosario did in LF, Kwan’s great day leading into Zimmer’s trade after the game, plus my reaction to...

The Guardians Opening Day roster is set for the 2022 season and there are some surprise rookies on there that we are going to talk about. We've also got some big contract extension news to talk about for Emmanuel Clase and José Ramírez and plenty of Spring Training action that went down this week. Plus, Shane Bieber racked up 6 k's yesterday but also gave up a Home Run. We'll talk a little bit abo...

The Guardians have a full week of Spring Training games to talk about, including appearances from all of the Major League pitchers, they continue to add a few names to their bullpen, including everyone's favorite veteran Bryan Shaw, and the middle infielders just keep racking up the hits in Spring Training games so far. Plus, we'll do a Prospect Profile on Steven Kwan and Oscar Gonzalez, two young...

2022 Spring Training has officially started, and Chris Antonetti has finally let us know what the Guardians plans are to start the season and why they've been so quite during this crazy Hot Stove period. I'll break down his comments and let you know what I think the real plan is moving into the season for the Guardians. Plus, the Guardians have started the Spring 2-0 with wins over the Reds and Wh...

The CBA Lockout is over, 2022 Spring Training has officially started, and we will play 162 games this season, plus the Guardians have signed verteran Catcher Luke Maile (so there's something)! We'll take a look at Maile and why it will be so hard for the Guardians to make additional moves with an already packed 40-man roster. Then we'll break down the CBA contract and what impact it will have on o...

The 2021-2022 offseason will drag on even longer with Major League Baseball officially canceling the first two series of the season as the negotiations with the MLBPA drag on. I've got my thoughts on everything that went down as we approached the self-imposed deadline Monday night. Plus there were some camp battles I was looking forward to, so I give you my top three camp battles we could eventual...

The 2021-2022 offseason is stuck in this lockout but a few things have gone down this past month including the voting for the MLB Hall of Fame, the negotiations for a new CBA have finally started, and the International Free Agent signing period still happened despite the lockout. I've got some thoughts about all those topics, plus Kenny Lofton and other players that dropped off the Hall of Fame Ba...

The 2021-2022 offseason is stuck in this lockout but we still had some pretty big news as Guardians fans. It's been reported that David Blitzer will be joining the Guardians as a minority owner, so in this episode we'll learn who he is, and through interviews he's given, what are his philosophies and perspectives on sports ownership. Plus for fun, I'll name the top 5 prospects I'm excited to see p...

The 2021-2022 offseason went from red hot to ice cold with the owners instituting a Lockout, but we've still got plenty of Guardians things to talk about. In this episode we're talking about what's going on with the CBA negotiations, the craziest month in MLB free agency history, and what the Guardians plan is. Plus answering some emails in our inbox about Daniel Johnson, the winged baseball logo,...

The 2021-2022 offseason is red hot and we've got some big Guardians news to talk about. In this episode we're talking all the news from the 40-man roster deadline yesterday, who was added, who was let go, and who was traded for. We're talking about the Guardians merch that officially went on sale yesterday (I got a new Diamond C hat). We're talking about big MLB news including labor talks and awar...

The 2021 season is now officially over as the Atlanta Braves are the World Series champions. In this episode we'll cover everything that's happened in the last few weeks including the continued transition to Guardians, the 40 man roster crunch, losing a great coach in Niebla but maybe gaining one in Valiaka, plus answering some of your mailbag questions. If you want to share your thoughts on the g...

The 2021 season is over and on this episode we will look back at everything Cleveland Indians hitting. We'll brag and boast about the stars in the lineup, Ramirez, Rosario, Straw, and Reyes. Then we'll look at some of those areas of struggle like catcher, the young 2nd basemen, and corner outfield. Plus, my thoughts on the World Series match up and how managers are burning through their pitching i...

The 2021 season is over and on this episode we will look back at everything Cleveland Indians pitching. We'll discuss the impact all the injuries had on the rotation and how Mejia, Hentges, Morgan, and Allen did at the MLB level (3 of them for the first time). Then we'll look at how the veteran (we can barely call them that) starters Bieber, Civale, and Plesac did before the injuries derailed thei...

The 2021 season is over and the Cleveland Indians finished in 2nd place with an 80-82 record, 13 games behind the AL Central Champion White Sox. We'll take a look back at the 2021 season by first answering the questions we had coming into this season on Quantrill, McKenzie, Mercado, Zimmer, H. Ramirez, and Bobby Bradley. Then we will look back at the Lindor trade and answer the question, can the C...

It's Game 162 of the 2021 Season and I want to give a sincere thank you to all the Morning People that have listened all season, plus the Cleveland Indians go out on a big win over the Texas Rangers 6-0. On today's show we're talking about Aaron Civale asking for one more start and delivering a great performance, the Indians stealing a bunch of bases in this game, Gose getting some swing and miss,...

It's Game 161 of the 2021 Season and the Cleveland Indians will officially have a losing season thanks to a 7-2 loss to the Texas Rangers. On today's show we're talking about the starting pitching battle, Triston McKenzie struggling his final 3 starts of the season, Myles Straw turning things up since coming to Cleveland, and naming our MVP for the Day. If you want to share your thoughts on the ga...