Welcome to Guardians Weekly on the Cleveland Guardians Radio Network. Guardians Weekly is brought to you by Progressive helping Guardians fans save hundreds on car insurance. Hi everyone, welcome to Guardians Weekly. Jim Rosen House along with you as we join you from Progressive Field in downtown Cleveland after one week hiatus over to the Huntington
Convention Center for guards Fest last weekend. Hope you had a chance to make it down on a blustery, snow east Saturday, but a lot of fans did make it down, and so too did more than thirty players from the Guardian's roster in their minor league organization, as well as most of the coaching
staff too. It was a great day, a lot of fun. We did our show live on location from the convention Center at guards Fest last weekend and had a great time visiting with Steven Vote, Craig Albernez, the new bench coach on Steven Vote's staff, and also pitchers Sam Henches, Trevor Stephen, and Tanner Biby. They all stopped by toward the end and we had a great time talking baseball. Get you warmed up here. With the off
season starting to wind down. Now it's not long before pitchers and catchers officially report to Goodyear, Arizona right on Valentine's Day, and the full squad not too much after that. And our first game broadcast is the Cactus League opener between the Guardians and the Cincinnati Reds on a Saturday afternoon, February the twenty fourth, with a three to zero five first pitch. Hammy and I will be there at Goodyear Ballpark bringing you all the action and now we cannot wait.
Now still some shows though here in northeast Ohio to get you two spring training. On this week's show, in just a little bit, we'll hear from Josh Naylor. We had a chance to catch up with him last week at guards Fest and get his thoughts on the season pasted and what's ahead for this ball club, as he's one of the senior leaders on this team now with only five years in the big leagues under his belt. But that's a
leadership role on a very young roster. Once again, we'll also visit with Paul Hoins from the Cleveland Plain Dealer and take an inside look at his Hall of Fame ballot with the Hall of Famers announced earlier this week. The three men going into Cooperstown with the voting completed include Adrian Beltray, Todd Helton, and also Joe so a really good class and we'll talk to Oinsey about who he voted for. You can vote for up to ten and we'll take a
look at his ballot and talk some good baseball with him as well. And we will also hear from Penny Forster, who is in the Dominican Republic. She's the director of Community Impact for the Guardians. A great trip to the hometown of Jose Ramirez took place a couple of weeks back, and she'll fill
us in on all the good things happening in South America. A big part of what the Guardians do that is community efforts and initiatives, and they took it to another country, the home country of their star, Jose Ramirez.
We'll hear from her in just a little bit. But as promised, Josh Naylor caught up with us at guards Fest and last year what a year for Naylor hit threeh eight, a career best, drove in ninety seven runs, that's a career best, hit seventeen homers and also stole ten bases to boot, so obviously feeling much better after going through that severe ankle injuries a couple
of seasons ago. But Josh was such a key part of this ball club, and you really you almost noticed it more when he was not available in the month of August due to injury, when the offense got bogged down, and he makes such an impact and figures to be in that same spot once again. And he talked about not the numbers that he put up, but were he really experienced some growth a season ago. I think I grew a lot as a leader, and I think that helped my game. I think
I I let usually the game take care of itself. I mean, not all days are going to be great, not all days are going to be bad. So it's just like trying to stay even kealed. I think I managed my emotions a lot better last year, and again, I think all these these little things help attribute to my game on the field and performance wise. So I just I try to grow its a person every year and every
day a little bit more and more. Again, no one's perfect, so I think we can just understand that no one's perfect and just just be ourselves and try to be our best self every day, then you'll improvement everything in your life, whether it's baseball or sports in general, or whatever field you're in, or just yeah, just you as a person. You mentioned being a better leader may have helped you on the field. How so how does
that work the two of them together. I think if you take yourself out of the equation and you start to look after everyone else and other people. I know that's a lot, but it takes the stress off of you as
an individual when you're looking forward to seeing other people's success. Because when you start to do that, I believe and I've experienced it, where if you start feeding off other people's success and really happy, genuinely happy for them, then the roles kind of get reversed and they're happy for you and your success. So everyone becomes, you know, as happy as a team and happy for each individual. And I think that's where great teams are built around.
Age wise, you're still young, but big league time wise, it's starting to accumulate for you where you could say, Josh Naylor is a good veteran player. Do you feel like a veteran player at this point in your career? No, not really. I mean it's a blessing that I have the experience that I have and the time that I have, I am forever grateful
for that. I just try to continue to pass down my knowledge, my experiences, because I think the experiences they tell you a lot about a person and what they've been through and how they're able to express that, especially for someone who could have those experiences or get that exposure later in their life, later in their career. So yeah, I'm grateful for that for the time
I've had so far. You care about all your teammates, but you had a chance to see a young teammate, you're a brother, really progress in the Major League a year ago, and as someone who's been down that road and knows how hard it is, what did it mean to you to see him overcome some things and really progress nicely? That's awesome. I tell him. He often he's an MVP caliber player. He looked up through Busler Posey as a youth and Yaulium Marlino, and I told him, like, you
can be even better than those guys. Those guys are phenomenal players and phenomenal leaders in their own way, but you're just as good, and you have a chance to do something, specially in this game. So I think giving some of those reminders helps helps their mindset a little bit, helps them, helps ease their mindset in a way where when they start to do through things
on the field production wise, they start to believe it. And it's my goal, as as an older brother one and as a leader on this team too, to make sure everyone believes they are who they think they are and who they say they are. And it's up to me and others, really everyone to keep harping on the positives and keep harping on that they are great in their own way and they do something special in their own way that no
one else can kind of copy. So stick with that, you know, understand yourself as a player and as a person, and believe in it to the fullest and work your hardest and good things will happen. Josh Naylor joining us, That was interesting. A little while ago you mentioned sometimes good teams might have a year they're not happy with or a bad year. I don't know if it was a bad year last year, but not where you wanted it to end. What gives you confidence that this year's team can bounce back
and be the team you think it can be? Just a drive each player has. We kind of got punched in the face a few times last year, and it's again things happened, you know years, Certain years don't go as planned as they can, but it's up to you to kind of find that fire in you and that take that punch and throw a CounterPunch after that, you know what I mean. It's just we we work hard together and we encourage each other. We love this game as a team and we love
competing as a team and winning as a team. So I think this year is gonna be awesome. We have a new staff, kind of like a whole rebuild on the staff, which is great, and we're looking forward to all the new experiences and opportunities we all go through together as a group, and the relationships that are built within each other and getting to know people here and there, and then getting to know us as a team. So I'm
excited for this year. Always fun to catch up with Josh Naylor, and in future shows we'll hear from his brother Bo, who was also in Town Court Guards Beest two and he figures to be a big key to this year's ball club. Stay with us while we come back, we'll talk with Kenny Forster, the director of Community Impact, about a great trip that the Guardians just completed to the Dominican Republic. That's next on the Cleveland Clinic Guardians Radio
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soccer song of Jose josejse Jose is ringing around Progressive Field. Welcome back to Guardians Weekly. Jim Rosenhause, back with you from Progressive Field in downtown Cleveland.
Great to have you with us for baseball talk on the radio. And just a couple of weeks ago, a contingent of front office folks from the Cleveland Guardians went south of the border down to the Dominican Republic Guardians around the Horn, a community trip to the dr in partnership with Eaton, and all kinds of great things going on, including a visit to the hometown of Third Basement and MVP candidate perennially Jose Ramirez in his hometown of Bonnie, Dominican Republic,
and filling us in on all the details of everything that happened down there. The director of Community Impact for the Cleveland Guardians, Penny Forster, it was an amazing trip, Rosie. We were there for a week. We took about ten ton of us from the front office from different capacities. We really wanted to capture content that we'll be sharing with our fans throughout the season, but this was really a trip that had, like you mentioned, did
a lot of impact on the Island. I think Paul Dolan said it best. You know, we've been taking top talent from the Dominican for a long time and it's obviously helped in our success, so we want to make sure we're giving back to that country as well. So what we did in partnership
with actually Eaton, who was another Northeast, Ohio based company. They have a large footprint of the Dominican were down there visiting their plants, visiting all the people that work for them there, but also schools that they've invested in. So it's really important obviously for us and for them that education is obviously something we stressed with all of the youth that we have as part of our programs. They do the same on there, and so we visited schools.
We made donations to these schools. One of them will be for supplies and resources that they need. The other is a high school that has a group hoping to make it to a NASA competition in Alabama. They've actually created a Mars rover on their own that they're hoping to compete with at a competition that
NASA is holding. So we were excited to do that, and then we visited like I mentioned the plants, and then obviously Jose Ramirez is from Bonnie, so he was down there, and we went to his hometown to a field that he practices on today that he practiced on when he was little, and did a playblow clinic for children of the neighborhood there and children of eaten plants. The kids that work are the kids of the parents that work at the plants. And then we also did a playblock clinic at our academy with
our new sinees the day after they signed. So it's kind of cool to see them their first official day as a guardian. They're doing a community project, they're giving back and they're signing their first autographs for ten and eleven year old RBI kids from the Dominican Republic, which is pretty cool, tremendous, tremendous stuff. You mentioned Jose Ramirez and visiting his hometown. We see him here and obviously fans know what he does on the field, and last summer,
Jose Ramirez Field was unveiled in just outside of downtown Cleveland. What's it like when you're on his home turf and you're in his world of where he grew up. It's really amazing to see it. What shocks me the most, and I should have known this, but the kids in the Dominican Republic, baseball is their number one passion. You know, here in Cleveland, a lot of kids, they're playing all kinds of sports. Baseball is just one of the things they love. But down there, baseball truly is the
thing every kid is passionate out. So to see that, to see Jose interacting with kids from the neighborhood he grew up and was really cool. He was thrilled that we were there. I think Kose's always stressed that it's important for him not only to give back in Cleveland, but obviously in his hometown of Banni as well, So we're trying to do that for him, and
he was just thrilled that we were there. He interacted with all the kids, He really gave a really good speech to them about listening to their parents and staying in school and how to be successful, and then just had fun and we gave them equipment, brand new bats, batting helmets, gloves, just anything that they could need to continue on their quests to become hopefully professional baseball players. What did when you give them a new a new bat or
glove or helmet. What does that mean to them? Maybe based on what they've been able to acquire so far before you get there. No, you could just hell as an immedia impact. Most of those kids have probably never received a brand new piece of equipment in their life. You could tell the coaches were thrilled at what the kids were getting because they're sharing, you know, one bat for a team, we're one batting helmet for a team.
So to have the kids have their own equipment that they could take home and be proud of was really something cool. You mentioned the kids who were just signing, and many of them are sixteen years of age. That would be the low end. And we'll talk with Paul Gillespie on a future show, but about some of those signees and what they could be down the road.
But having them participate in that and maybe fill the fans in on what that academy looks like, being a brand new facility and what that can mean to a franchise in terms of development. Yeah, it's a beautiful facility. Obviously, it was the first time I've seen it in person. It's really gorgeous. There's a couple of fields, obviously a dorm for the younger kids as
they sign, And I think the coolest thing was seeing these kids. They've never been asked for their autograph before, and here were ten or eleven year old that are part of the Dominican Republic's RBI program asking them for their autograph for the first time. So you could tell they were as excited as the little kids were there and to be a part of it. They're doing their first kind of community act as guardians, which kind of shows them how important
giving back is to our organization. And it was just really cool to see them all interacting and leading the camp clinic, leading the different stations and talking to the little kids. So you go down there for a week with with nine or ten others from from the front office doing doing so many good things down there. When you get back here, can you reflect on it and
how it impacted you in addition to how it impacted them down there. I think for me personally, like I really didn't know what to expect, right, I'd never been there before. I'd heard stories obviously from others that had, but you really see the need as soon as you land, you understand that it's not like it's not like here, the resources are not the same,
especially for the kids. One of the schools that we visited was in a really really poor community where you know, the school's in pretty terrible condition, so knowing that we're able to give back, but the level of fact that the kids have for elders is so strong down there, and they were also appreciative and happy to see us and meet us, and it was just a really cool exchange of cultures, honestly, and just learning more about what
is important down there. Obviously, the passion that that entire island has for baseball was really cool to see, and it's something that I think just kind of re energized me to get started for this upcoming season here and giving back here in Cleveland as well. And I know there'll be a ton of great initiatives happening once the season begins, and even before the season begins. To Penny, always great to have you on. Glad things went well on the
trip. I know it took a little bit to get there and to get home, but everyone's back safely and it sounded like a great time. We missed the heat. It's a little cold now that we're back home, but it all is well. That is Penny Forster doing great work as the director of Community Impact for the Cleveland Guardians. Guardians around the Horn their community trip to the Dominican Republic in mid January, and it was a resound success on so many levels. Stay tuned, We'll have more to come after this.
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a big week throughout Major League Baseball. As it was announced earlier this week, those who will be heading to Cooper'stown this summer as members of the Hall of Fame, Adrian Beltray, Todd Helton, and Joe Mauer, all being selected to Baseball's Hall of Fame by via the voting from members of the Baseball Writers Association of America, including our own Paul Hoyns, who has penned out a long career with the Cleveland Plaindealer now Cleveland dot Com. And Hoynes we
were talking earlier. It's more than thirty years now that you've been putting together your ballot to send into Cooper's town, and from when you first started to where you are now still very much an honor that you take extremely serious, for sure, Rosie. You know, it's it's a privilege to vote for the Hall of Fame. You know, every player on the on the ballot each year is a great player and they deserve, you know, they deserve your attention and as much a you know, as much you know as I
guess attention as you can give them. So they've earned it, and you know, you have to kind of respect the process, so to speak. And as you go through that process, not everybody fills out a full ballot, and by that I mean selects ten players, but it seems like you try to do that every year. And how come for you from your perspective. Yeah, I like to do it, Rosie. You know, obviously you know, ten players aren't going to get elected to the Hall of Fame.
You know, this year's class was three, and that's a big class to get into the Baseball Hall of Fame. What's four? I guess with with with Jim Leland getting in, you know from the Veterans Committee. But that's a big class. So but I think, you know, players need like five percent of the vote to stay on the ballot, and sometimes you can help a guy stay on the ballot and get more consideration, you know,
as the years go by. You only, you know, a player as long as he gets five percent and stay on the ballot for ten years. And we've seen guys, you know, like Burt Blylevin get you know, make it on his final year of eligibility. Gary Sheffield just came up short this year, you know, on on on a you know, this last year of eligibility, Billy Wagner's going to be just missed by what five votes this year? Next year is going to be his last year of eligibility,
So every vote counts. Paul Hoyns joining us from Cleveland dot com, longtime baseball writer here in Cleveland in more than thirty years now submitting a ballot for Baseball's Hall of Fame, and Hoynes do we always ask, can we go through step by step on who you voted for? Yeah? Sure, all right, Well, well we'll start with at the top three players got and we mentioned Adrian Beltray, Todd Helton, and Joe Mauer. You voted for two of the three, maur not quite quite on there for you this
year, and explain what went into the thinking there. Yeah, Rosie, I voted for Beltray and Helton, they both got in, and I did not vote for Mauer. I just you know, we saw him. We've seen him a lot, as you know, the same in the same division with the Guardians, you know, for for any number of years. I thought that, you know, you know, obviously, if he had played his whole career as a catcher, he would have he would have been in
no doubt about it. But I thought the last five or six years of his career, when he moved the first base because of injuries, he was pretty he was pretty much an ordinary player. So you know that factored into my vote. I thought he would definitely stay on the ballot. I just didn't think, you know, for next year. But I just didn't think he was the first ballot Hall of Famer. Well, you were not alone. He just made it in. And yeah, he just made it by
the skin of his teeth by four votes. Yeah, I think a lot of voters were grappling with some of the same things that you were. What made Beltray and Helton though, put them over the top this year for you, Yeah, Beltray was a no brainer to me. Three thousand hits, you know, two times silver Slugger, drove in one hundred runs, seven times, nine time All Star, played twenty seven years you know, gold
Glove third base, and over three hundred stolen bases. So I just I just thought he was definitely, definitely a guy that that you know, deserved it. And Helton, you know, I thought, you know, he came close last year. Uh uh set you played seventeen years, five time All Star, and I know, obviously Corsfield helped him, you know, helped his uh you know, his his his numbers, but he was just the same almost the same kind of hitter on the road as he was at
home. And you can't really he can't, he can't hold where the guy plays against him. You know, if a guy takes advantage of that, fine, But the fact that he played just as well on the road, you know, was a big factor for me. And he made some great points about the challenges when you play for the Rockies, of how hard it is to to hit when you go on the road because the pitches have such different shape because of the altitude, and and just dealing with with altitude and
non altitude and what it does to your body. So there's certainly a tip of the cap to him for his fine career. All right, the guys who didn't make it, who were on your ballot, a trio of outfielders who all three had maybe someday they get in Carlos Beltrand, Tory Hunter, and Andrew Jones, who was the one that I think may make it, but all three of you think down the road maybe might get there or still
just kind of maybe a little bit off. Andrew Jones, ten time Gold Glove winner, just you know, I mean, just a great just a great player. He receives what sixty two percent of the vote this year. He's in the seventh year. He might make it, He might make it. Rosie and Beltrand, you know, really, you know, he epitomized the kind of a leadoff hitter to me, you know, a power you know, a guy that stole steel spaces hits, home runs. I really
I loved watching him play. And you know Tory Hunter, you know, another guy that played a long time nineteen years nine gold gloves, you know, just another well rounded player. Relievers always seem to be tricky for the Hall of Fame, the value of what they do and how many saves you need to have and all that kind of good stuff. But boy, two good ones, two battlers, Kay Rodden and Billy Wagner on your ballot, And it looks like you mentioned earlier, Wagner may make it next season.
Hunt, Yeah, Billy Wagner. What gives ends up five votes short of getting into into the Hall. Next year's is final year on the ballot with seventy four percent of the vote, you know, over four hundred saves. You know, just you know, really really a solid you know, just a solid closer. And you know the guy I kind of goes under the radar to me is Francisco Rodriguez Rosie. I mean, this guy, you know, appeared in ten postseason games. You know, He's four fourth all
time and saves four hundred and thirty seven staves. He's got more saves than Wagner. But you know, he bounced around a lot, and I think, you know, after that initial success he had with the Angels when they won the World Series in two thousand and two, I think people kind of lost sight of him. But he was he's been. He was a quality closer for a long time. Two more on on Paul Hoyness's ballot for the Hall of Fame, and again it was Adrian Beltray, Todd Helton, and
Joe Mauer going into Baseball's Hall that was announced earlier this week. Mark Burley, we were talking earlier about his candidacy, and you have some numbers that you find very impressive and make him worthy to be on your ballot, and who knows, maybe in the future make a little more headway. Yeah, another kind of under the radar guy, Rosie. You know, he pitched sixteen seasons in the big leagues. In fourteen of those seasons, he pitched
two hundred and more innings, and that's unheard of anymore. I mean, you know, organizations don't even let guys pitch two hundred in ex Now you pitching through a no hittery through a perfect game, five time All Star, and probably one of the best fielding pitchers. You know you're gonna see what about the Remember the play he made when he when he tossed throughout one of the Cleveland runners. He fielded a ground ball and through it behind between his
legs the first base and got the guy out. That play always sticks in my mind, kind of sums up how just how good he was with the glove and the last one. I know, we talked about it last year, and it really is an unfortunate case because if you just look at what he meant, especially to fans here in Cleveland, all Marvis scal stays on
your ballot. But he's got some challenges, doesn't he. Yeah, you know with Rosie, he to me, he's the best shortstop I've ever seen play on a day to day you know, a Bassis played the most games ever a shortstop, eleven time Gold Glove winner. But you know, if not for you know, the spousal abuse charges and the sexual harassment charges, you know, with the bat boy and when he was playing, when he
was managing in the in the Chicago White Sox minor league system. He'd already be in the Hall of Fame. He was, you know, three or four years into his eligibility, he was at fifty percent. Now he's back. Now he's he went He's down to seventeen point eighteen percent of the vote right now. You know he is you know what is in his h He's in his seventh year. He's got three more years left, Rosie. But
I don't think he's he's gonna make it. It's just a shame that it happened, you know, you feel you know, and but you know Omar probably only has him to blame for it. Well, that a tough deal for sure, especially for fans here in Cleveland. So another year in the books close with this, and maybe this happens every year because of the debate. And it's not a cut and dry thing in terms of who you should
vote for and who you shouldn't. But every once in a while you hear people say, well, they need to change the way they do this. But what do you think, Well, how solid is the method of balloting and who gets to vote on potential Hall of famers as time goes by, you know, Rosie, the Hall of Fame, what for nineteen thirty six when when the Hall of Fame opened, you know, they they turned to the Baseball ris you know, Association of America to you know, they put
the voting in their hands, and it's remained that way since. I mean, there's been controversy. There's been guys, you know, great players that have been left off. There's been guys that are probably in the Hall of Fame that should be in the Hall of Fame. But it's you know, I think the process isn't perfect, but I think it's it's as good as it gets. You know. The people that you know, they've they've really
you know, paired the field down that of voters. I mean, I remember when it was, you know, the field was four hundred to five hundred you know people that voted on the awards. But you know, they they've really kind of regimented that they cut it down to there was you know, almost you know, just just under four hundred people voted this past for this for this year's ballot, and I think, you know, I'm probably
I'm probably prejudiced, but I liked it this way. I mean, you know, and if the Hall of Fame wants to change it, they can change it, because you know, they're in charge of Baseball writers, not in charge. You know, the Hall of Fame asked them to do this, and uh, you know, and with that Rosie, you know, we've all we've almost been come, you know, judge jury and hangman on
this thing. You know. Yeah, I don't think a lot of voters ever wanted to get into that position, especially with the steroid you know, the steroid scandal and this and all the players that well we're starting to you know, those guys are starting to fall off the ballot now. But you know, for a long time, you know, the best players in baseball weren't getting in because they were linked to steroids. And you know, and that was you know, that was that landed on the writer's doorstep. And
I don't know how many other people would have wanted that responsibility. And I'm sure from a fans perspective, I think as long as obviously we have you on, and I think hopefully fans can tell the thought and time you put into it and how serious you take it. And I think that's for the majority of those in the Baseball Writers Association of America when they come to voting on the Hall of Fame and we always appreciate your insights. Hoaysee and won't
belong now man, we'll see out in spring training. Good deal, Rosie, Thanks man. That's Paul Hoins from the Cleveland Plaindealer Cleveland dot com, longtime baseball writer here in Cleveland in more than thirty years now casting a Hall of Fame ballot. Adrian Beltray, Todd Helton, and Joe Maller going in this season this summer in Cooper's Town. Stay tuned, all that more to come after this progressive We love sports and saving you money, so we bundled
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insurers not available in those states. Are situations Welcome back. It's our final segment from Progressive Field in downtown Cleveland. Jim Rosenhouse along with you on Guardians Weekly as work continues on this ballpark. Full disclosure. We are recording our show on Friday afternoon down at the ballpark, and I'm here along with mainly construction workers as they continue to hammer away and try and make sure that everything
is taken care of and looking good for opening day. That'll be about the halfway point of the two year renovation project, but a lot of the fan facing features will be completed in time for opening day twenty twenty four, and they are working hard to get that done. And actually not a bad day to do it on Friday, as it was a little bit warmer downtown.
Some news and notes before we wrap it up for this week. The Guardians earlier this week extended non roster invitations to spring training to twelve internal players for this year's spring training in Goodyear, and that brings a non roster total to fourteen. And some names that stand out on the pitching front. Franco Alaman, who really put together a fine season, kind of got on that radar
a year ago, a hard thrower out of the bullpen. So we'll keep an eye on him and old friend Anthony Goes, who is coming back from Tommy John surgery. He's scheduled to be in camp as well, along with four other pitchers as non roster invites. Three catchers will be on hand, including Brian Lavastita, who made the opening day roster a couple of seasons ago.
And in terms of infielders, Kyle Manzardo who had that big Arizona Fall league and certainly high hopes for Manzardo after a solid season once he got healthy a season ago. He'll be in major league camp as well, along with outfielder p d Halpin, who was in came over several times, not in major league camp, but played in several major league games a year ago. We'll see him again, a speedy outfielder who's trying to continue his progress towards
the major leagues. Just some of the twelve who have been invited to major league camp next month in Goodyear, Arizona. That's going to do it for our show this week until next week when we join you again. This is Chim Rosenhouse reminding you that you've been listening to Guardians Weekly on the Cleveland Clinic Guardians Radio network. Guardians Weekly has been brought to you by Progressive Helping Guardians fans save hundreds on car insurance