Guardians Trade Deadline Reactions

Where to begin? Where to begin? So since we last talked, the Guardians began the trade deadline frenzy a little early by trading Bo Naylor.

and getting Craig Yoho.

That would be the main pieces of that, of import.

So any thoughts about that opening salvo, folks? Anything you want to share?

I like Yoho quite a bit.

He fits right in the middle of this bullpen in a way that I kind of think they had maybe hoped Hoyer would be able to plug in at some point.

But Yoho has...

Kind of transformed what he does a little bit with his fastball towards the end of July.

And that has made a huge difference for him.

And it has completely shifted how he likes to tunnel his changeup.

Now it's a complete sinker grip.

He is almost not throwing his four-seamer at all.

And it tunnels so much better with his changeup.

And now I'm just curious to see if they can get the sweeper to kind of come along with it to kind of turn him into more of a handedness neutral guy.

Because if they can do that, I mean, Yoho's very new to the pitching aspect of baseball.

I think that's a big, big thing with him.

And I think they've got a really interesting ball of clay to continue to mold here that Milwaukee had kickstarted for a handful of years already.

And then they've got multiple years of control now with him as well.

I thought especially getting something solvable at the major league level for Bowe, especially an arm that is very good, at least has the potential to be very useful in the middle of that bullpen.

I thought this was a very, very good job by Cleveland.

Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and second, obviously, the very, very good analysis of what makes Craig Yoho work.

To my eye, I watched him and between myself and Matt Dallas, I landed on Eli Morgan with a firmer fastball.

But the sinker grip is really a big deal.

You can see he's got a dramatic drop off on that sink and does parallel to change up.

I think that Matt's comparison was a Justin Masterson.