So far this season, the Cleveland Guardians’ bullpen has been one of Major League Baseball’s premier pitching units. Cleveland’s relief pitchers rank top-five
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Sam Hentges came up through the Minor Leagues as a starting pitcher and he even made a handful of starts in the rotation during the 2021 season. But now after two full seasons of coming out of the bullpen for the Cleveland Guardians, Hentges officially considers himself to be a relief pitcher.
The Cleveland Guardians have a fantastic bullpen. They own a reliever ERA of 3.27 which ranks sixth-best in baseball. This is impressive considering how much the team has relied on them earlier in the season.
The Cleveland Guardians had one of the best bullpens in baseball in 2022. They were virtually unhittable during the final stretch of the season and helped the team run away with the American League Central.
One of the key pieces that made the Guardians one of the best bullpens in baseball has yet to make his season debut. This would be Southpaw set-up man Sam Hentges.
The Cleveland Guardians just improved their pitching depth less than a week before Opening Day gets started. Cleveland signed left-handed pitched Daniel Norris to a one-year Minor League deal.
The Cleveland Guardians got away with some magic in 2022 without having any of their star players miss significant time with injury. Perhaps, that had something to do with them being the youngest team in baseball.
Of all the MLB prop bets available before the start of the regular season, the MLB saves leader is arguably one of the most difficult to get right. Why?
Unforntunly, it was only a matter of time before Cleveland Guardians fans got some bad news out of Spring Training. Everything was going great over the first week.
Guardians reliever Sam Hentges has been shut down due to a shoulder issue and will be evaluated on a week-to-week basis moving forward.
The Guardians had arguably the best bullpen in baseball by the end of the 2022 season. They finished with a 1.08 ERA which was ranked as the third-best in MLB.
The Cleveland Pitching Factory is alive and well Sam Hentges had a tremendous 2022 season. On most teams, he would have been at worst the second-best bullpen arm, and some lower-rung clubs might have even tried to slot him in as a closer.
That was hardly the start Civale wanted to make in a winner-take-all playoff game.
The big lefty has emerged with a total lethality out of the bullpen the last few months A few months back I heard legendary sportswriter/curmudgeon Ray Ratto mention a measuring stick he has for whether a baseball team would have a surprising season, and it got me thinking about the Guardians.
Regardless of what people want to say about this Guardians bullpen, they have been one of the best bullpens in all of baseball throughout the season. Especially since the All-Star break.
In 2021, Sam Hentges made his Major League debut as a starter against the Chicago White Sox. Hentges was pretty much forced into this starting role after the rotation suffered numerous injuries, and it was not all smooth sailing for him.
Morning news and Notes for Wed. Feb. 16, 2022 Sam Hentges got the honors of starting first this spring, and pitched an absolutely dominant 0.0 innings, with no walks and no strikeouts.
Cleveland has cycled through myriad young options in hopes of churning out another quality starter, as it has seemingly been able to do at will in recent years.
Cleveland has optioned outfielder Ben Gamel to Triple-A. Southpaw Sam Hentges has been recalled from Cleveland’s alternate site to take Gamel’s roster spot.
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