{"id":768291,"date":"2026-07-17T13:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/768291\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T13:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:07:13","slug":"guardians-news-smoky-second-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/768291\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians News: Smoky Second Half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Yhe Guardians play tonight! \u2026Smoke-permitting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I am hoping that the wildfire smoke clears out in time for the game but the air was pretty nasty yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">MLB released 2027 schedules yesterday while releasing <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BqYH7ViWSkc?si=IKUdwsfgJtQb_1sf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:propaganda;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;propaganda&quot;}\" class=\"link \">propaganda<\/a> about the need for a salary cap. Ironic because there is zero chance that full schedule is played if the league insists on a cap. Only soft cap\/soft floor proposals have a chance at avoiding missed games. But, anyway, you can take a look at a schedule I believe has little chance of holding up here if you want:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Athletic put out a very interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7447211\/2026\/07\/16\/yankees-dodgers-braves-rays-brewers-cubs-mariners-world-series\/?source=user_shared_article&amp;unlocked_article_code=1.yVA.DTUF.04CkOFIkFxx0&amp;smid=ta-android-share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:article;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;article&quot;}\" class=\"link \">article<\/a> looking at metrics that predict if a given team can win a World Series. The Guardians were not one of the seven teams to accrue \u201cyes\u2019s\u201d in most of the metrics. Mostly because of their putrid offense but also bullpen meltdowns were a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yhe Guardians play tonight! \u2026Smoke-permitting. I am hoping that the wildfire smoke clears out in time for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[58323,113994,2320,4285,2808,2821,2324,363,99,328075],"class_list":["post-768291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-brayan-rocchio","tag-chase-delauter","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-fifth-inning","tag-florida","tag-miami","tag-miami-marlins","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-yhe-guardians-play"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768291","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=768291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}