The Cleveland Guardians are clinging to a 4.5-game lead within the AL Central whereas sporting the very best document within the American League at 62-42 and want to solidify the roster earlier than the commerce deadline for the stretch run.
One of many staff’s roster additions is reportedly coming in-house because the Guardians are calling up one in every of their high pitching prospects to make his big-league debut on Sunday.
Cleveland.com’s Paul Hoynes introduced on X that the Guardians are calling up left-handed starter Joey Cantillo from Triple-A Columbus to make his debut in opposition to the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday.
Joey Cantillo will make his big-league debut on Sunday for the Guardians when he begins in opposition to the Phillies. G’s must make a transfer to clear a spot for him on the 26-man roster.
Cantillo is 24 years outdated and has a 2.79 ERA in seven begins at Columbus thus far this season, and the strikeout artist has 39 Ks by means of 29 innings.
MLB.com has Cantillo ranked because the staff’s Tenth-ranked prospect and paints Cantillo as having much-improved stuff since he was drafted, however factors out his management can nonetheless be a problem at occasions, as evidenced by his 21 walks in 30.1 innings within the minors this 12 months.
Cleveland has to make a transfer to clear a spot for Cantillo on the 26-man roster and it’s unclear if this might be only a spot begin for Cantillo, because the Guardians have struggled to fill the fifth spot within the rotation all 12 months attributable to Triston McKenzie and Logan Allen each struggling and being despatched right down to the minors at occasions.
Cantillo was a Sixteenth-round choose by the San Diego Padres in 2017 and was flipped to the Guardians within the Mike Clevinger commerce in 2020.