{"id":271637,"date":"2025-11-09T07:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T07:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271637\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T07:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T07:40:12","slug":"can-guardians-find-offense-with-same-old-offseason-approach-the-week-in-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271637\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Guardians find offense with same-old offseason approach? The week in baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/guardians\/\" title=\"Navigate to Guardians\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guardians<\/a>Updated: Nov. 08, 2025, 3:46 p.m.|Published: Nov. 08, 2025, 1:47 p.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Austin Hedges\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/KHAQWBD3LVFMPAANROOPQLWA3I.jpg\"\/>For the last two years, the Guardians have started their offseason by signing free agent catcher Austin Hedges to a one-year, $4 million contract.Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"IRU2HCGFJVEGDJWKKSXRITOK34\">CLEVELAND, Ohio \u2014 The Guardians always approach free agency with caution, like a truck driver backing an 18-wheeler into a narrow loading dock to deliver three tons of eggs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"BAIVQHXQQZBPHHWLQ7BKJFAC2A\">The approach is not expected to change this winter. It doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019ll be idle because they know how fortunate they were this past season when they overcame a 15 1\/2 game deficit to win the AL Central with one of the worst offenses in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Hoynes, born in Cleveland, has been the beat writer for the Indians\/Guardians since 1983. He attended Cathedral Latin High School in Cleveland and received a journalism degree from Marquette University. He&#8230; more<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GuardiansUpdated: Nov. 08, 2025, 3:46 p.m.|Published: Nov. 08, 2025, 1:47 p.m.For the last two years, the Guardians have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[3307,49,48,462,468,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-271637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-national-league","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271637","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=271637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}