The Guardians shoutout the A’s yesterday and scored another right-handed hitter on their roster by adding Rhys Hoskins on a minor-league deal.
We covered the Hoskins’ signing here, and Zack Meisel also covered it well for the Athletic here. It’s nice to have some more left-handed hitting-ability and slugging in camp. So, let’s see how it goes from here.
In the Guardians’ 6-0 win over the Athletics yesterday, the Guardians had 9 of the top 11 exit velocities, with Ralphy Velazquez leading the Guardians with a 111.1 mph single. Stuart Fairchild had two 105 mph singles and has looked solid to begin camp, as has Kahlil Watson who had a 105.7 single. George Valera hit a 104.7 mph home run. Travis Bazzana and Angel Genao didn’t light up the scoreboard, with only Genao registering a single, but both put up good at-bats, in general.
All of Parker Messick’s pitches were up a little bit in average speed, which is good for the beginning of camp. Will Dion struck out three batters in two scoreless innings pitched.
Tim Stebbins had a nice piece on David Fry’s return to playing catcher in yesterday’s game, for MLB.com.
The Guardians play the Diamondbacks at 3:05PM ET today.
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