#Oscar Gonzalez

CLEVELAND - Think about how much has changed in a year. Last January, baseball stood still, and we were left to talk ourselves into Bradley Zimmer, ponder José Ramírez trades and evaluate commissioner Rob Manfred's negotiating tactics. It was bleak. But the lockout ended, Ramírez signed a long-term deal, Zimmer lasted one day of the regular season…

The 2022 season had its fair share of devastating injuries. Especially those who make a significant impact on the field. If we were to compose a list of every notable injury, things would get ugly. Now that we've mentioned injuries, which is quite a broad term, here are the most valuable players returning in 2023. Despite the season being months…

The Seattle Mariners and Cleveland Guardians are set to collide for Game 2 of a four-game series, which will be the second Apple TV game on Friday. Entering action on Thursday, both of these clubs occupy playoff positions in the American League, and there's a lot to like about the prospects of this matchup. Pitching has the potential to be the…

DETROIT -- Here are the lineups for Sunday's game between the Guardians and Tigers. Where: Comerica Park, 1:40 p.m. Radio/TV: Bally Sports Great Lakes, WTAM and WMMS will carry the game. Teams: Guardians (19-23) vs. Tigers (16-29). Starting pitchers: RHP Triston McKenzie (3-3, 2.70) vs. RHP Elvin Rodriguez (0-0, 9.39) GUARDIANS CF Myles Straw. SS…

The Kansas City Royals (63-93) will begin a 6-game series with the Cleveland Guardians (88-68) on Friday at Progressive Field at 7:10 p.m. ET. Yesterday's game between the Rays and the Guardians ended in a 2-1 victory for the Guardians. Their offensive leader was Oscar Gonzalez, who finished 1-for-4 with an RBI. Enyel De Los Santos earned the…

Cody Bellinger wants to bet on himself. On Sunday his agent, Scott Boras, said as much. There's little intention to sign a multi-year deal after the Dodgers non-tendered him. From a recent Ken Rosenthal article on The Athletic, Boras' quotes signal his plan for his client clear as day. "I've already been offered multi-years," Boras said Sunday, two…

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Maybe the Guardians starting pitchers and offense are finally reading from the same book. The offense didn't exactly splurge, but it did supply Cal Quantrill with enough runs to pitch the Guardians to a 6-3 win over the Texas Rangers in the first game of Tuesday's doubleheader at Progressive Field. The Guardians have won seven of…

It was a season to remember for the Cleveland Guardians. In a year that preseason projections were not kind to them, the Guardians defied the odds, overcame the Minnesota Twins and the Chicago White Sox in the AL Central, and clinched their first division title since 2018. Their success was due in large part to the emergence of several young…

CLEVELAND, Ohio - With the advent of StatCast, managers have all sorts of statistics and metrics available to measure a team's defensive performance, but Guardians skipper Terry Francona says he relies heavily on his own tried and true method. "I still trust my eyes, a lot," Francona said. When he looks at the defense being played by his young…

The young, upstart Cleveland Guardians defied all odds and made it to the MLB American League Division Series against the veteran New York Yankees. The Yankees defeated Cleveland in the deciding Game 5, October 18, at Yankee Stadium. Scoring three runs in the first inning on a three-run homer by Giancarlo Stanton, the Guardians could never catch…

DETROIT -- Here are the lineups for Saturdy's game between the Guardians and Tigers. Where: Comerica Park, 4:10 p.m. Radio/TV: Bally Sports Great Lakes, WTAM and WMMS will carry the game. Teams: Guardians (18-23) vs. Tigers (16-28). Starting pitchers: RHP Shane Bieber (1-3, 3.55) vs. RHP Alex Faedo (1-1, 3.00) GUARDIANS CF Myles Straw. LF Steven…

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Here are the starting lineups for Tuesday's doubleheader Game 1 between the Guardians and Rangers. Where: Progressive Field, 3:10 p.m. TV/radio: Bally Sports Great Lakes, WTAM 1100 AM, and the Guardians Radio Network will carry the game. Teams: Guardians (24-25) vs. Rangers (25-28). Starting pitchers: RHP Cal Quantrill (2-3, 3.52)…

After rain forced the game to be postponed on Monday, the New York Yankees and Cleveland Guardians will finally hold Game 5 of their ALDS matchup on Tuesday in a winner-take-all matchup in the 2022 MLB playoffs. After the postponement, the Guardians initially listed their expected starter as TBD but Terry Francona made it official that he'd be…

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Here are the starting lineups for Thursday's series opener between the Guardians and Athletics. Where: Progressive Field, 7:10 p.m. TV/radio: Bally Sports Great Lakes, WTAM 1100 AM, WMMS 100.7 FM and the Guardians Radio Network will carry the game. Teams: Guardians (26-26) vs. Athletics (20-38). Starting pitchers: LHP Konnor…

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Here are the starting lineups for Monday's game between the Guardians and Rangers. Where: Progressive Field, 7:10 p.m. TV/radio: Bally Sports Great Lakes, WTAM 1100 AM, WMMS 100.7 FM and the Guardians Radio Network will carry the game. Teams: Guardians (24-25) vs. Rangers (25-28). Starting pitchers: RHP Cal Quantrill (2-3, 3.52)…

BALTIMORE -- Here are the lineups for Friday's game between the Guardians and Orioles. Where: Camden Yards, 7:05 p.m. Radio/TV: Bally Sports Great Lakes, WTAM 1100 AM, WMMS 100.7 FM and the Guardians Radio Network. Teams: Guardians (22-24) vs. Orioles (22-31). Starting pitchers: RHP Shane Bieber (2-3, 3.19) vs. LHP Bruce Zimmerman (2-3,…

While it may seem like the World Series just ended yesterday it is never too early to begin looking at futures bets for next season. Since Free Agency has just begun there will still be massive changes to these odds and these outlooks but there is still value in some of these numbers and let's take a look at the bets I like best. I combined these…

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Here are the starting lineups for Wednesday's series finale between the Guardians and Rangers. Where: Progressive Field, 7:10 p.m. TV/radio: Bally Sports Great Lakes, WTAM 1100 AM, WMMS 100.7 FM and the Guardians Radio Network will carry the game. Teams: Guardians (25-26) vs. Rangers (26-29). Starting pitchers: RHP Shane Bieber…

NEW YORK - No, Jameson Taillon had never done it before. Yes, it would have happened in the most intense moment of the Yankees' season. And, yes, they were really going to go through with it. "Oh," Taillon said, "I was going in." The Yankees were planning to use Taillon, who has never pitched in relief, to enter in the ninth inning if Clay…

The American League Division Series between the Cleveland Guardians and the New York Yankees has been characterized as David vs. Goliath. The betting lines give the Guardians very little chance of winning the series. But sports commentator Terry Pluto said that the young team has defied the odds all season. "Well, statistics or analytics would have…

NEW YORK - That's why Little League coaches tell you to finish the play. Josh Donaldson pimped what looked like a solo shot but ended up thrown out in the fifth inning of Game 1 of the American League Division Series vs. the Guardians at Yankee Stadium. Want to bet on MLB? Donaldson hit a high fly ball to the right-field corner to lead off the…

One of the recurring themes on the Cuppa Cubbie Blue podcast this season has been the emergence of super-teams in MLB. There are a handful of teams that spend money, extend talented players and seem to have no end of talent in their farm systems. The rest of the league just has to scrap and hope they catch those super teams on a bad day to have a…

The plot is thickening! The next round of MLB playoffs gets underway this Tuesday, with NL and AL Division Series matchups after some surprise wins and agonizing losses in the Wild Card series. The Yankees, who have been blissfully resting and resetting since clinching a bye to the ALDS, will be back in action Tuesday night, taking on the Cleveland…

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…

CLEVELAND (AP) - Rookie Oscar Gonzalez broke up the longest scoreless postseason game in major league history with a leadoff home run off Corey Kluber in the 15th inning, giving the Cleveland Guardians a 1-0 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday and a two-game Wild Card Series sweep. Gonzalez, who walks to the plate to the "SpongeBob SquarePants"…

Adam Frazier hit a tiebreaking RBI double in the ninth inning, and the visiting Seattle Mariners erased a seven-run deficit and topped the Toronto Blue Jays 10-9 on Saturday for a sweep of their American League wild-card series. It was the biggest road comeback win in playoff history and baseball's largest comeback victory to clinch a postseason…

CLEVELAND - Rookie Oscar Gonzalez broke up the longest scoreless postseason game in major league history with a leadoff home run in the 15th inning, giving the Cleveland Guardians a 1-0 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday and a two-game Wild Card Series sweep. Gonzalez, who walks to the plate to the "SpongeBob SquarePants" theme song, drove a…

The youngest team in Major League Baseball will face one of the most experienced playoff teams in the American League Divisional Series. The Cleveland Guardians swept the Tampa Bay Rays in the Wild Card round by way of a 15th-inning walk-off home run from Oscar Gonzalez to set up an ALDS clash with the New York Yankees. Cleveland conceded a single…

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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…

As Han Solo once said, "Never tell me the odds". That's a pretty iconic line, one that means just as much and revolves around the same principle as a quote from the television series "Scrubs". In it, Dr. Cox tells J.D. that "Statics mean nothing to the individual". These are quotes that the Cleveland Guardians are going to need to embrace because…

AL Central Division foes will battle on Tuesday night, when the Kansas City Royals and the Cleveland Guardians continue their series from Progressive Field. The Royals (65-95) have lost 53 of their 79 road games and are trying to climb out of the division basement. Last night, OF Drew Waters hit a three-run blast in the tenth inning to lift Kansas…

The Yankees had an off day last night, traveling home for their final homestand of the regular season. They probably don't have much concern over what the rest of the league is doing anymore now that they've secured the AL East, but there is potential to scout out their possible opponents still and if nothing else it makes for something to watch…

Throughout the season the CBS Sports MLB experts will bring you a weekly Batting Around roundtable breaking down pretty much anything. The latest news, a historical question, thoughts about the future of baseball, all sorts of stuff. Last week we detailed what we'd want in exchange for a milestone baseball. This week we're going to discuss 2022's…

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,…

ARLINGTON -- There's been so much focus on how young the Guardians' roster is this season. So along with a typical champagne celebration, what's more fitting than a pizza party for a young club that just clinched the American League Central? Oscar Gonzalez and Cal Quantrill were bringing in boxes of pizza as other guys were getting doused in…

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…

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Guardians located lefty Kirk McCarty in the lost-and-found department in their bullpen just in time. McCarty, designated for assignment twice this season, made his first appearance in 11 days on Wednesday night in relief of fellow rookie Cody Morris. He threw 3 1/3 scoreless innings and the Guardians did just enough on offense…

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…

Seattle Mariners vs Cleveland Guardians 9/4/2022 Picks Predictions Previews The Seattle Mariners will play the last game of their season series with the Guardians at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio on Sunday afternoon. Seattle recently swept the Detroit Tigers in their recent 3-game battle and is about to wipe out the Tigers in Game 3 of their…

In the MLB Division odds, the betting line is displaying the Mariners as the+7250 chalk to win the AL West. The Guardians are at -147 favorites to take the AL Central. In the MLB pennant odds, the Mariners are+1100 to win the American League and the Guardians are at+2300. In the World Series odds, the Mariners are+3500 and the Guardians…

The Mariners are in Cleveland today to face the Guardians for the second weekend in a row. After taking three of four from said Guardians on Ichiro Weekend and then decisively sweeping the Tigers in Detroit, the Mariners are playing like a team that's postseason bound. In case you missed it, rosters expanded yesterday and the Mariners added…

The Mariners host the Cleveland Guardians for the first time this season (and technically the first time ever, since the last time these two teams faced each other during the regular season Cleveland's team wasn't called the Guardians). It's a four game series in late August between a team holding their division lead by a handful of games and a…

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…