{"id":602321,"date":"2026-04-14T00:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/602321\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T00:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:32:10","slug":"cleveland-guardians-activate-rhp-hunter-gaddis-of-george-valera-from-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/602321\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Guardians activate RHP Hunter Gaddis, OF George Valera from injured list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/cleveland-guardians\/229\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/cleveland-guardians\/229\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Guardians<\/a> on Monday activated right-handed reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/hunter-gaddis\/1159673\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/hunter-gaddis\/1159673\" target=\"_blank\">Hunter Gaddis<\/a> and outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/george-valera\/1120979\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/george-valera\/1120979\" target=\"_blank\">George Valera<\/a> from the injured list the start of a three-game series against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/st-louis-cardinals\/248\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/st-louis-cardinals\/248\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Cardinals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gaddis (right forearm stiffness) started the season on the 15-day injured list after making one appearance in spring training on Feb. 27. One of the league\u2019s top setup men, Gaddis has a 2.29 ERA in 151 appearance over the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gaddis provides a jolt to a bullpen that is weathering a stretch of 13 games in 13 days, including a doubleheader on April 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cYou want to be out here with the team, and you want to be able to go pitch, but it\u2019s like, just trust in the process, and when you\u2019re ready, I think it\u2019ll be time to go,\u201d Gaddis said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Valera, who was activated from the 10-day injured list with left calf soreness, made his major league debut on Sept. 1, 2025. The 25-year-old hit .220 with two homers and five RBIs in 41 at-bats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cGreat to have Hunter back in the bullpen and then obviously adding George back to the offense, love the quality of the bats, love the power potential and ability to play both corner positions,\u201d Guardians manager Stephen Vogt said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a corresponding move, the Guardians optioned infielder CJ Kayfus to Triple-A Columbus and designated left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/kolby-allard\/874245\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/kolby-allard\/874245\" target=\"_blank\">Kolby Allard<\/a> for assignment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Joe Harris, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 The Cleveland Guardians on Monday activated right-handed reliever Hunter Gaddis and outfielder George Valera&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-602321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602321","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=602321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}