{"id":110413,"date":"2025-08-31T20:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T20:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/110413\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T20:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T20:34:09","slug":"guardians-call-up-prospect-for-mlb-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/110413\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians call up prospect for MLB debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/cleveland-guardians\/news\/guardians-call-prospect-mlb-debut\/68a7c72ba309090a569754f6?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Guardians call up prospect for MLB debut;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Guardians call up prospect for MLB debut<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Cleveland Guardians remain in the postseason hunt in 2025. Their bid for a second straight AL Central title has started to slip, but at 68-66, they sit just three games behind the Seattle Mariners for the final AL Wild Card spot.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Detroit Tigers own the best record in the American League, making Cleveland&#8217;s chances of surpassing them in the division unlikely with only a month left in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>However, manager Stephen Vogt and Cleveland are going to do everything possible to stay in postseason contention.<\/p>\n<p>Guardians call up outfielder George Valera for what will be his MLB debut<\/p>\n<p>Before the team looked to sweep the Seattle Mariners in their series finale on Sunday, the team announced the call-up of 24-year-old outfielder George Valera for what will be his season debut. The move will officially be made when rosters expand on Sept. 1, according to Guardians Prospective posted on X.<\/p>\n<p>Valera signed as an international free agent back in 2017. This was when the Cleveland baseball franchise was the Indians.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>After playing seven years in the minor leagues, the Guardians believed that now would be the time for Valera to get his chance at the big leagues.<\/p>\n<p>The outfielder has been battling injuries in 2025, resulting in him playing in just 44 games between the ACL Guardians and Triple-A Columbus. Valera has hitting statistics that include a .318 batting average, .388 on-base percentage, .550 slugging percentage, and a .821 OPS while hitting seven home runs and 24 RBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guardians call up prospect for MLB debut originally appeared on The Sporting News The Cleveland Guardians remain in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[62474,49,48,491,490,62471,62472,462,62473,470,82,34334],"class_list":{"0":"post-110413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball-franchise","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-cleveland-guardians","12":"tag-detroit-tigers","13":"tag-george-valera","14":"tag-guardians-prospective","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-postseason-contention","17":"tag-seattle-mariners","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-stephen-vogt"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}