#James Karinchak

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- This is a preview of the Guardians three-game series against the Yankees. Where: Yankee Stadium, Friday through Sunday. TV/radio: Bally Sports Great Lakes, WTAM and WMMS will carry the series. Pitching matchups: RHP Eli Morgan (1-0, 4.50) vs. RHP Jameson Taillon (0-1, 3.72) Friday at 7:05 p.m.; LHP Kirk McCarty (big-league debut)…

NEW YORK -- Josh Naylor is taking advantage of his second chance. After breaking his right leg and ankle in a collision with Ernie Clement in June at Target Field, Naylor thought his career might be over. It's not -- as his two-run homer Saturday and two-hit game on Friday at Yankee Stadium show. But it has taught him something -- play every game…

The winner goes to Houston and the loser goes home in Game 5 tonight between the Guardians and Yankees. The NLCS between the Phillies and Padres starts tomorrow night and I'll have a preview of it up later this afternoon. Before I get into Game 5, I want to talk a little more about all the playoff complaints with this format and how the Dodgers,…

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Here is a preview of the Guardians' four-game series against the Athletics. Where: Progressive Field, Thursday through Sunday. TV/radio: Bally Sports Great Lakes will air Thursday and Friday's games while FS1 will televise Saturday's contest and Sunday's game will stream exclusively on Peacock. WTAM 1100 AM, WMMS 100.7 FM and the…

The Cleveland Guardians and the Seattle Mariners will begin a four-game series in Seattle on Thursday afternoon. With that said, it's a good time to check out our MLB odds series, which includes a Guardians-Mariners prediction and pick we have laid out below. The Cleveland Guardians are in first place in the AL Central, a spot they have become…

We're a third of the way through the 2022 MLB regular season, and offense has slowly but steadily improved league-wide just in time for summer. We have a decent sample size of games and data with which to work, so now seems like a good time to analyze the futures betting odds for AL pennant, NL pennant, and World Series winners. Let's dive right…

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Here is a preview of the three-game series between the Guardians and Orioles. Where: Camden Yards, Friday through Sunday. TV/radio: Bally Sports Great Lakes, WTAM and WMMS will carry the series. Pitching matchups and starting times: RHP Shane Bieber (2-3, 3.19) vs. LHP Bruce Zimmerman (2-3, 4.53) Friday at 7:05 p.m.; RHP Triston…

CLEVELAND, Ohio - This is a preview of the Guardians' two-game series against the Reds. Where: Progressive Field, Tuesday and Wednesday. TV/radio: Bally Sports Great Lakes, WTAM 1100 AM, WMMS 100.7 FM and the Guardians Radio Network will carry the series. Pitching matchups and starting times: RHP Zach Plesac (1-3, 4.68) vs. RHP Connor Overton (1-0,…

BALTIMORE -- Do you have a question that you'd like to have answered in Hey, Hoynsie? Submit it here. You can also or text Hoynsie at 216-208-4346 for a two-week free trial. Hey Hoynsie: With the rotation being spotty and the bullpen being solid -- and James Karinchak coming back -- do you think the Guards would go with an opener? Maybe once or…

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Myles Straw wants to make one thing clear. He's here to play 162 games this season. "No days off, baby," said the Guardians center fielder. "All 162 this year. That's the goal." Straw, however, wasn't in the starting lineup Wednesday against Kansas City after appearing in the first 45 games of the season. He did enter the game as…

BALTIMORE -- The Guardians are being careful with catcher Austin Hedges. It's the reason he wasn't in the lineup Sunday in the series finale against Baltimore at Camden Yards after tweaking his left hip beating out an infield hit in the eighth inning on Friday. Luke Maile replaced him Saturday. Initially manager Terry Francona and Hedges felt he'd…

This is why I hate parlays. If we straight-bet the Yankees and the over, we would have come out fine. Instead, I got greedy, and we lost a unit on a+250 parlay. We had some fun, but now we get back to business with three MLB Best Bets. Logan Webb (RHP, Giants) [9-3, 2.77 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 123.2 IP, 103 K, 32 BB] Zac Gallen (RHP, Diamondbacks) [5-2,…

While the Cleveland Guardians should see some regression eventually on offense, Monday's matchup against the Los Angeles Angels is leaning in their favor. Shane Bieber toes the rubber and gives Cleveland enough of an edge in our betting picks. A four-game series between the Cleveland Guardians and Los Angeles Angels starts tonight at Angel…

The Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Guardians will square off in an AL Central matchup on Saturday afternoon. With that said, it's a good time to check out our MLB odds series, which includes a White Sox-Guardians prediction and pick we have laid out below. Chicago is in the midst of a three-game losing streak, sitting at 61-59 and on the outskirts…

The LDS round in the 2022 MLB postseason has blessed us with one winner-take-all Game 5. The Yankees and Guardians were originally scheduled to meet for Game 5 on Monday night, but rain pushed the deciding contest back to Tuesday afternoon -- the same day the NLCS begins, and the day before one of these two teams faces the Astros in the ALCS. You…

One would think that a new name and a rebrand would be good reasons to go out and spend some money to drum up excitement. Much like the boring logo and the unimaginative color scheme, the Guardians opted not to do anything of consequence with the expedited free agent and trade frenzy. If I sound angry, it's because this lifelong Cleveland baseball…

Thanks to the weather, the Major League Baseball playoffs are treating us to a bonus game here on Tuesday. We'll finally get Game 5 of the ALDS between the Guardians and Yankees in the Bronx and, just when the dust is clearing on that one, we'll shift our focus out to San Diego for the first-ever league championship series between two teams who…

After a 99-win campaign that saw them basically go wire-to-wire to win the AL East, the New York Yankees will take on the Cleveland Guardians in the ALDS. The Yankees are -220 favorites to win the best-of-5 series, which starts on Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium. Gerrit Cole is expected to start Game 1 for the Yankees, who haven't played since the…

If you go by the records, the stats, the experience, the recent head-to-heads … if you go just by all of that, it would be easy to think the Yankees should handle the Cleveland Guardians in their upcoming best-of-five American League Division Series. Yankees in four? Sweep? Not so fast. Sure, the Yankees won 99 games to the Guardians' 92 plus five…

Tampa Bay Rays vs Cleveland Guardians AL Wild Card Game 2 10/8/2022 Picks Predictions Previews The Tampa Bay Rays will go against the Cleveland Guardians in MLB action in Progressive Field, OH, on Saturday, October 8, 2022, at 12:07 PM ET. Although Jason Adam and Pete Fairbanks both have eight saves for the Tampa Bay Rays, the starting rotation is…

Just one season ago, the Atlanta Braves proved how important a team's bullpen can be in today's MLB during their World Series run. Postseason games can be won or lost by arms coming out of the back-end of the'pen and this year 11 of the 12 teams playing for the title finished the regular season with the top-14 bullpens by ERA. While some starters…

The MLB playoffs begin today, and with that, eight teams will battle for the chance to compete against the Dodgers, Braves, Astros, and Yankees. Yikes! What an awful prize that is, am I right? Enough joking! Now's the time to get serious! Here are our predictions for the Wild Card matchups! 2 / 6 GAME 1: Today at12:07 p.m. EST TV: ESPN These are…

The Cleveland Guardians entered the 2022 season as underdogs, having lost much of the core that brought them to the postseason in four of five years from 2016-20. FanGraphs had them projected as the third best-team in the AL Central, with a 7.5 percent chance to win the division and 15.2 percent to make the playoffs. At the All-Star break, the…

Shane McClanahan hasn't had his best swing-and-miss stuff since returning from a shoulder injury four starts ago and as such, we're going Under his strikeout total for Game 1 of the Wild Card round. Read more in our MLB picks and predictions below. The Cleveland Guardians host the Tampa Bay Rays as short -125 home favorites in the early game Friday…

The Major League Baseball playoffs start on Friday. Here's how I see each postseason series playing out, including my World Series prediction. Tampa Bay Rays (No. 6 seed) vs. Cleveland Guardians (No. 3 seed): Winner: Guardians. Entering Wednesday, the Guardians are 25-6 in their last 31 games. They are clicking on all cylinders. Their starting…

The beauty of the 162-game baseball season lies in its ebbs and flows. Each team writes its own story. The beauty of the postseason, however, is that those stories are over. They only matter insofar as they set the table for the drama to come. Last year's champion Atlanta Braves won fewer regular-season games than every team they beat in the…

The Tampa Bay Rays and Cleveland Guardians will begin a three-game series with a Tuesday night matchup at Progressive Field in Cleveland. With that said, it's a good time to check out our MLB odds series, which includes a Rays-Guardians prediction and pick, laid out below. Cleveland has clinched the AL Central division, with an 86-67 record,…

The Cleveland Guardians were not expected to compete at a high level in 2022. With a roster that stacks up among the youngest in baseball, many thought this year would be focussed on player development with eyes cast on the future. Cleveland took the advantage in a division that saw no clear favorite, playing plus-.500 baseball for most of the…

ARLINGTON -- The Guardians knew they were looked at as underdogs coming into the year and have since used that as fuel to have the level of success they've experienced thus far. On Sunday afternoon at Globe Life Field, the Guardians clinched their first division title since 2018 and are now able to start looking ahead to the best-of-three Wild Card…

The Cleveland Guardians are going to win the World Series! The odds of Cleveland actually winning it all in 2022 may seem slim. After all, teams such as the New York Yankees and Houston Astros are standing in their way in the American League. And even if the Guardians power through the AL they will have possibly have to face the Los Angeles Dodgers…

The White Sox entered the week with the unenviable combination of having played three more games than Guardians while trailing them by four in the loss column. It wouldn't be such a big deal if the Sox could guarantee defeats in those games, but the Guardians have agency, and they exercised it on Monday with a 5-4 victory over the Angels while the…

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Guardians were at Fenway Park coming out of the All-Star break for a four-game series. It was raining and right-hander James Karinchak kept flipping the ball in the air with his right hand and talking to himself. When he wasn't doing that, he was going to the rosin bag to get a better grip on the ball. Boston fans were on him…

The Seattle Mariners and Cleveland Guardians will finish their weekend series with a Sunday afternoon matchup in Cleveland. With that said, it's a good time to check out our MLB odds series, which includes a Mariners-Guardians prediction and pick, laid out below. Seattle is 75-58, a distant second behind the Houston Astros in the AL West, and…

The Seattle Mariners and Cleveland Guardians will match up for a potential playoff preview on Saturday night in Cleveland. With that said, it's a good time to check out our MLB odds series, which includes a Mariners-Guardians prediction and pick we have laid out below. Seattle is an impressive 74-58 on the season, second in both the AL West and AL…

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The goal of the hitters at the bottom of the Guardians' lineup is to get on base so the hitters at the top of the lineup can drive them home. It sounds so simple, right? Guardians catchers Austin Hedges and Luke Maile have spent the season in the lower reaches of the lineup. For a long time, they weren't able to get the top of…

The Baltimore Orioles and Cleveland Guardians will square off in the final game of their three-game series on Thursday in Cleveland. With that said, it's a good time to check out our MLB odds series, which includes an Orioles-Guardians prediction and pick we have laid out below. Baltimore is currently in fourth place in the AL East, surprising…

DETROIT -- Aaron Civale returned to the Guardians' rotation Wednesday night after spending almost a month on the injured list with a sore right wrist. The offense welcomed him back with a minimal amount of support. Fortunately, the bullpen was more giving as the Guardians beat Detroit, 3-2, for their fourth straight win. The Guards moved into first…