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@JL_Baseball How about pinch hitting for Martinez on a 2 hit day. Lead off hitter and Schneeman strikes out badly.

Can't believe anyone is saying this, but should you be taking the bat out of Austin Hedges' hands right now?

@tim_stebbins In spite of all of Vogt’s moronic moves.

Final: Guardians 2, Royals 1 A walk-off single by Brayan Rocchio

@CleGuardians I suppose we pinch hit for Brito too

@CleGuardians WTF are we doing pinch hitting for a guy who has 2 hits today. Way to give Angel a Vogt of confidence. Managerial malpractice.

@JacobsFieldRBW Not to mention his defense at first base is suspect at best. I’m not a player hater, especially young players. I do have a real problem with the way this staff is making suspect decisions. Like batting him 4th when he goes 0 for the week. Play him just don’t bat him fourth.

The problem with Manzardo’s performance so far isn’t that he’s likely to be this bad all year. He won’t. The problem is that when you’re a 1B/DH whose entire value is based on hitting, you can’t have ten-game stretches with a league-worst OPS and a league-average xwOBA.

@theonetrueiaq @ppinurbum @ruben_tinjaca @dalydoseknicks @NBCSports @MLB Never said they were

@ppinurbum @ruben_tinjaca @gpasmith904 @dalydoseknicks @NBCSports @MLB ??? Mariners are much better than the Guardians buddy

The hottest teams to start the season off. 👀

@dalydoseknicks @NBCSports @MLB And who exactly have the Yankees played?

@NBCSports @MLB Why do you have the Dodgers at #1? Yankees have had a better start

@NBCSports @MLB Who beat the Dodgers at Home two out of three and where might they be?

@MasonHorodyski @WEWS Voice to text, who knew?

@MasonHorodyski @WEWS WTF with Manzardo 4th. If he has the bat there at least switch Jose above the Lauder and hit the water third that way Jose might see some pictures to hit.

Here’s tonight’s #Guardians lineup for their series opener vs the Royals: Kwan CF DeLauter RF Ramírez 3B Manzardo 1B Hoskins DH Naylor C Kayfus LF Arias SS Rocchio 2B P Tanner Bibee #GuardsBall x @WEWS

@GuardsJoey If that’s the lineup on September 1, Manzardo better be doing really well. Jose‘s gonna be a pissed off person because they’re pitching around him to get to Manzardo.

September 1st 1. Bazzana 2B 2. DeLauter LF 3. Ramirez 3B 4. Manzardo DH 5. Valera CF 6. Velasquez RF 7. Hoskins 1B 8. Naylor C 9. Rocchio SS Bench of: - Hedges - Fry - Schneemann - Kayfus - Martinez Walk with me

@tim_stebbins Why TF is Manzardo batting 4th? Take some pressure off the guy and drop him in the lineup. More of Vogts moronic moves.

The Guardians' starting lineup tonight vs. the Royals: CF Kwan RF DeLauter 3B Ramírez 1B Manzardo DH Hoskins C Naylor LF Kayfus SS Arias 2B Rocchio SP Bibee Ramírez is set to take over sole possession of first place in franchise history in games played, with 1,620

@PaulCla07383591 @CleGuardPro @Daniel24Espino @CLBClippers @CleGuardians Ok, I get that point. But, with that arm talent you have him and Cade rotating the closer responsibilities and at the same time you can stretch Espino out in other low stress situations. In essence they would be competing and helping each other.

@gpasmith904 @CleGuardPro @Daniel24Espino @CLBClippers @CleGuardians with Espino they need to stretch him out to pitch multiple days in a row, esp if he's gonna be a high leverage guy.

Cleveland #Guardians 25yr old RHP prospect Daniel Espino tossed a scoreless 7th inning of relief today for Columbus striking out one batter topping out at 100 mph. Line - 1.0(IP) 1H 0R 0ER 1BB 1SO (19 Pitches 12 Strikes) #GuardsBall

@bernie_ple28263 The other team is also pitching around Jose. You got Mando batting 00000 behind him. Why would you pitch the José?

Kwan is selling out for home runs. He is trying to kill every pitch. His timing is way off. Ramirez is late on pitches, and is getting fooled on changeups. That happened last year. Not seeing many fastballs. I think the cold weather bothers Jose. I'm not worried...yet.

@bernie_ple28263 I agree with the Kwan part. He’s too busy worrying about bat speed. His contact rate has plummeted. Bat on ball and go. He’s also not busting down first baseline any more. I get that for the most part. Health. But Jose always does it. Jose is Jose. Nothing to worry about.

MLB TV used to perfectly sync the radio broadcast option with the TV broadcast. Now…not so much. Very annoying.

@PaulCla07383591 @CleGuardPro @Daniel24Espino @CLBClippers @CleGuardians Actually his velocity plays best and he has good command. At this point in the season why not? Their young player philosophy has been holding back players as long as possible. But this guys physical luck has been like CDL and Valera. We need to see asap to evaluate his value.

@gpasmith904 @CleGuardPro @Daniel24Espino @CLBClippers @CleGuardians Espino doesn't close in CBus but you think he can just come up and close in CTown?

@CovertheCorner No one is going to pitch to him with the likes of Manzardo batting behind him. Vogt’s intelligent lineups are moronic. I understand his impatience. Hoskins would give him more protection than Manzardo.

Jose is chasing at around 40% right now. He has to stop that. And he will. But until he does, the offense will struggle because pitchers aren't dumb. They won't give him anything to hit in a big spot.

@mlbeuphoria It’s bad enough Cade is giving up runs late. We don’t need our setup guys doing the same.

Shawn Armstrong is going to be this year’s Scott Barlow/Paul Sewald isn’t he