Zack Meisel

2 days ago | nytimes.com | Zack Meisel

CLEVELAND - Straight to your questions, which have been lightly edited for clarity. Why are the Cleveland Guardians so afraid of letting Ben Lively pitch into the sixth inning or the third time through a batting order? It seems the club has decided there's no scenario in which it'd push him. - Mike K.

5 days ago | nytimes.com | Zack Meisel

By Zack MeiselThe Guardians are 22-15. Yep, they're doing it again. Like the first rule of Fight Club being that you do not talk about Fight Club, the first rule of the 2025 Guardians season is you do not, under any circumstances, try to figure out how they are 22-15. They just are, because this is what they do, even if it doesn't compute. Anyway, you probably have questions about the Guardians. Let's answer some of those. Drop them below. Just, you know, don't ask how they're 22-15.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Zack Meisel

Every muggy morning was the same: Nic Enright trudged to a back field at the Miami Marlins' complex in Jupiter, Fla., and tossed 40 pitches to Jose Iglesias, a late-spring signee who thwacked every fastball from the aspiring big-league pitcher. At the end of each session in March 2023, Enright was drenched in sweat and demoralized. Every radar gun reading of a meager 88 mph had him question why he was pushing through the exhaustion. "What am I doing?" he remembers thinking.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Zack Meisel

The Guardians have mostly continued applying their magic touch in 2025, winning many close games, even as they sort through inconsistency or inadequacy on the roster. Let's hand out some superlatives to commemorate a solid start for Stephen Vogt's club. Most likely to make everyone laugh at prospect rankings: Daniel SchneemannHis slugging percentage at Double-A Akron in 2022 was .292. Again, that was his slugging percentage.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Zack Meisel

This Guardians homestand had everything. For 10 games in 11 days, the Guardians took a series from the Yankees, suffered consecutive drubbings against the Red Sox and Twins, had position players pitch on back-to-back days, sat through a three-hour, rain-free rain delay and cycled through a slew of relievers. And after all that, they still managed to go 6-4. Remember Zak Kent, Cody Bolton and Doug Nikhazy? They each came and went after one appearance during the homestand.