{"id":610615,"date":"2026-04-28T04:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/610615\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T04:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:53:12","slug":"guardians-prospect-travis-bazzana-2024-top-overall-pick-will-be-called-up-tuesday-ap-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/610615\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians prospect Travis Bazzana, 2024 top overall pick, will be called up Tuesday, AP source says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Travis Bazzana, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 amateur draft, will be called up by the Cleveland Guardians and could make his major-league debut during Tuesday night\u2019s game against the Tampa Bay Rays, a person familiar with the move told The Associated Press on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the Guardians have not announced the roster move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 23-year-old second baseman is the top prospect in the Guardians\u2019 organization. He is batting .287 with two home runs and 10 RBIs in 24 games for Triple-A Columbus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Juan Brito, who is expected to be sent down to make away for Bazzana, is batting only .176 in 15 games and has 17 strikeouts in 51 at-bats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Brito was called up from Columbus on April 7 after Gabriel Arias was placed on the injured list due to a strained left hamstring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Bazzana showed his potential during the recent World Baseball Classic, when he had two hits and a home run for Australia in its 3-0 win over Chinese Taipei.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Bazzana missed two months last season due to an oblique strain. He had a .239 batting average with nine home runs, 39 RBIs and 12 stolen bases with Double-A Akron and Columbus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Travis Bazzana, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 amateur draft, will be called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-610615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}