{"id":59656,"date":"2025-08-11T09:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59656\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T09:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:37:09","slug":"travis-bazzana-gains-triple-a-promotion-one-step-away-from-major-league-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/59656\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis Bazzana gains Triple A promotion, one step away from Major League debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s first-ever MLB number one draft pick is one step closer to realising his big league dreams, officially promoted to Triple A baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Travis Bazzana will join the\u00a0Columbus Clippers following his stint with the Akron RubberDucks, and will now hope to parlay his success into cracking the big leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Just over a year since the Cleveland Guardians selected him first overall in the 2024 MLB Draft, his promotion is a positive sign after a number of injury setbacks throughout his time in the minor leagues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Travis Bazzana gains Triple A promotion, one step away from Major League debut<\/p>\n<p>Travis Bazzana is now just one step away from the MLB, after being promoted from Triple A.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Travis Bazzana&#8217;s next stop in Ohio: Columbus!<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Guardians?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#Guardians<\/a>&#8216; top prospect is headed to Triple-A less than 13 months after being selected first overall in the 2024 Draft. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Elft9QzJBK\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Elft9QzJBK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Minor League Baseball (@MiLB) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MiLB\/status\/1954647642497003695?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">August 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of four prospects to be promoted, Bazzana joins Tommy Mace, Ross Carver, and Cooper Ingle in Columbus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After missing two months with an oblique strain, the Australian returned to action in blistering form, hitting\u00a0.265\/.367\/.412 with seven doubles, one homer, and six RBIs, leading to his call-up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re looking for him to continue his development,&#8221; Cleveland Guardians general manager Mike\u00a0Chernoff said in July.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously, he had to deal with the injury setback, which is rough for a guy who&#8217;s the 1-1 pick and under the spotlight. But these things happen. So the No. 1 goal right now is just get him to a point of durability where he&#8217;s fully built up and then continue the development.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He\u2019s working his tail off even while he was on rehab. Not surprising, knowing the guy. But at this point, we&#8217;re just hoping that he can finish out the season healthy and get as much out of it as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bazzana will now hope that his form can continue, as he looks to join a Guardians outfit in the midst of an up-and-down season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s first-ever MLB number one draft pick is one step closer to realising his big league dreams, officially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-59656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}