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Cleveland Guardindians (2024 AL Central Champs)

Ok, I'll say it -

Was Tito holding us back?



(JK - Tito is my hero.)
I know nothing about baseball. But here are a few thoughts.

Many of these guys have now been in the big league for a few seasons. They are now more comfortable and the coaching staff has a better idea of how to coach them due to seeing them longer and having more tape on them. They are being put into positions where they can thrive.

Sometimes it is nice to have a new voice as your leader. And they appear to have knocked it out of the park with the Vogt hire.

You can’t say enough about the on field leadership from Jose. He is both contagious and infectious.

Finally, winning begets winning.
 
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I know nothing about baseball. But here are a few thoughts.

Many of these guys have now been in the big league for a few seasons. They are now more comfortable and the coaching staff has a better idea of how to coach them due to seeing them longer and having more tape on them. They are being put into positions where they can thrive.

Sometimes it is nice to have a new voice as your leader. And they appear to have knocked it out of the park with the Vogt hire.

You can’t say enough about the on field leadership from Jose. He is both contagious and infectious.

Finally, winning begets winning.

The bullpen was a disaster last year, that's the big difference this year. Along with the offense actually stepping up in the situations where they need to.
 
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22 year old power slugging 1B prospect Jhonkensy Noel hits a HR in his first MLB at bat.

Noel's big knock was his plate discipline but he seems to have possible cleared that up. Hitting .295 in AAA this year (compared to .220 last year)

 
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The legend of Joe Charboneau never dies | Opinion
It’s only fitting Joe Charboneau had a bit part in the iconic 1984 sports film “The Natural.”

It starred Robert Redford as the fictional Roy Hobbs, who appears essentially out of nowhere and becomes a baseball sensation for the New York Knights.

As quickly as Hobbs becomes a star, that star fades just as fast.

The same can be said about Charboneau, who resides in Avon Lake and previously worked in baseball with the Lake Erie Crushers, and was manager of the Lorain County Ironmen in 2015. He’s currently the hitting coach at Notre Dame College in South Euclid.

It’s probably not uncommon for those on the west side to run into Charboneau. For those old enough to remember, they might want to talk about 1980.
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That was the year Charbonneau was named American League Rookie of the Year for the team — at the time — called the Indians. They now go by the Guardians. No matter the name, Cleveland baseball in 1980 was best-known for Joe Charboneau.

But by 1983, Cleveland’s brightest baseball star was out of the game. On June 5, 1983 — almost 40 years to the day — Charboneau was released by the franchise.

That same year, Tri-Star Pictures acquired the rights to Bernard Malamud’s 1952 novel “The Natural.” In the book, the Hobbs character was more outlandish than Redford in the film.

Anyone who followed Chaboneau’s career can relate. His off-the-field antics are legendary to this day. Reportedly, he opened beer bottles with his eye socket, drank beers with a straw through his nose, ate cigarettes, fixed a broken nose with pliers, and stitched up his own cut with fishing line.
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Does anyone know of a good app for following baseball scores?

The one I have been using keeps posting scores from a fictitious team called the "Guardians".

I have been reading articles from ESPN, Yahoo, The Athletic and other sources and clearly no such team exists.

I did learn, however, that Aaron Judge has a mild case of rosacea. There is a nice 15,000 word article on the subject avaiable on MLB.COM.
 
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