Cleveland Guardians Prospect Report 6/25/25
Kayfus continues to be grand, Brito return to Columbus
Scoreboard:
Columbus Clippers 8, Iowa Cubs 7 - Statcast
Akron RubberDucks 8, Harrisburg Senators 1
West Michigan WhiteCaps 9, Lake County Captains 6
Charleston RiverDogs 7, Lynchburg Hillcats 0 (F/8 - rain)
ACL Guardians 8, ACL Royals 4
Rehab:
Erik Sabrowski (RP, Columbus): 1.0 IP, H, 0 R, 0 BBs, K - Half of Sabrowski’s 16 pitches were over for strikes. He was able to get his only whiff of his appearance with the curveball. He hit 93.5 mph on his fastball, a slight uptick, however batters fouled off or made contact with all five of the swings on the straight stuff.
Matt Jachec (RP, ACL Guardians): 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, BB, K - Jachec only faced three batters in his second rehab appearance of the season after a leadoff walk was erased by a caught stealing. He then recorded a strikeout and a popup to go through his inning of work unscathed.
Highlights:
Juan Brito (2B, Columbus): 3-for-5, 2 R, 3B - Welcome back to Triple-A, Juan Brito. After completing his rehab stint in Arizona, the 23-year-old went for three hits in his first game back with the Clippers, including a triple to lead off the top of the fourth inning. He also had three hits back on Opening Day of the 2025 minor league season to match a season-high.
CJ Kayfus (1B, Columbus): 1-for-3, 2 R, HR, 4 RBIs, BB - For the second day in a row, Kayfus went for a grand slam on a lefty-lefty matchup, this one to tie the game up at 7-7 in the top of the eighth inning. He now has 10 homeruns on the year after his 425-foot tank on Wednesday and has a slash line of .322/.406/.577 (.983 OPS) across Akron and Columbus this season.
Jorge Burgos (1B, Akron): 4-for-5, 4 R, 2 2Bs, HR, 2 RBIs, 2 DPs - Burgos had double the number of hits himself on Wednesday than the RubberDucks combined on Tuesday and Sunday’s games as he broke the ice-cold spell for the team. He had three extra-base hits within the first four innings of play, a feat he had not previously done in any other game this season. He now has a team-high 11 homeruns and 51 RBIs in 2025.
Angel Genao (SS, Akron): 2-for-3, R, 3B, 2 BBs, 2 DPs - Genao broke an 0-for-16 stretch in his last four games played with a triple and he reached base four total times thanks to a pair of walks on Wednesday. It is also significant in that these are his first hits at Canal Park after playing just one game in Akron before the team was on the road for back-to-back series.
Rodney Boone (SP, Akron): W (6-3), 6.0 IP, 5 H, 0 R, BB, 4 Ks - Boone lowered his season ERA to 1.98 with six shutout innings of work on Wednesday. The UC Santa Barbera alum has not allowed an earned run in three of his last four starts (22.2 IP). He had traffic on the basepaths over the first five innings, but the southpaw finished strong with a 1-2-3 sixth. He tossed 82 pitches, 56 of them for strikes.
Jose Devers (SS, Lake County): 3-for-5, 3 R, 3B, GIDP, E6F - Credit Devers with three consecutive multi-hit performances after he was 3-for-5 on Wednesday morning. Furthermore, the 22-year-old came around to score all three times he reached base and was the first three runs of the game for the Captains. He is batting .324 over the last eight games.
Sean Matson (RP, Lynchburg): 4.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 BBs, 7 Ks - The 23-year-old has excelled in his new role as a long-relief man for the Hillcats and fanned a career-high seven batters in a hitless 4.2 innings of work. His ERA is now 1.24 in 18 games this season and 50.2 innings pitched.
Gabriel Rodriguez (2B, ACL Guardians): 3-for-5, R, 2B, RBI - An RBI single sparked a five-run top of the first for the ACL Guardians to lead the team to victory. It is his first three-hit game of the season and in Arizona as an 18-year-old.
Reiner Herrera (C, ACL Guardians): 3-for-4, R, RBI - This was also Herrera’s first three-hit game of the season and as a part of the Arizona Complex League. He concluded the inning that Rodriguez started with his RBI single and later scored himself in the ninth.
Notable Performances:
Chase DeLauter (LF, Columbus): 2-for-4, R, RBI, BB, GIDP - DeLauter continued to add fuel to the “I should be called up” fire on Wednesday with a multi-hit game, the game-winning RBI and the hardest hit ball of the day for the Clippers at 107.9 mph. He is rocking an 11-game hit streak and has reached base in all 23 games played with Columbus.
Dom Nunez (C, Columbus): 2-for-3, 2B, 2 RBIs, BB - The come-from-behind victory may not have come to fruition without the key RBI double by the left-handed swinging backstop in the fourth in the midst of reaching base three times.
Luis Frias (RP, Columbus): W (2-0), 1.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BBs, 0 Ks - Frias touched 95 on the fastball and retired all four batters he faced despite not recording a strikeout. He now has not allowed a hit in three consecutive appearances.
Joe Lampe (RF, Akron): 2-for-4, 2B, 2 RBIs, BB - Both of Lampe’s hits drove in runs for the RubberDucks on Wednesday’s lopsided win. He has reached base three times in two of his last four contests.
Guy Lipscomb (CF, Akron): 2-for-5, R, 2B, RBI, SB - Lipscomb had an extra-base hit and turned his single into a “double” via a stolen base. He reaches double-figures with his tenth double of the year in the win.
Esteban Gonzalez (CF, Lake County): 2-for-3, R, 2B, RBI, BB, SB - An RBI double for Gonzalez highlighted a day where he reached base three times.
Christian Knapczyk (2B, Lake County): 1-for-3, 2B, 2 BBs - Knapczyk would reach base three times as well with an extra-base hit on his ledger.
Johnny Tincher (C, Lake County): 2-for-4, R, RBI - Tincher is on a five-game hit streak at the moment thanks to a pair of singles.
Wuilfredo Antunez (RF, Lake County): 1-for-4, R, HR, RBI, BB, OF assist - His tenth homerun ties his season-best mark, but the biggest key to his play on Wednesday was his defense after a diving catch and outfield assist.
Bennett Thompson (DH, Lynchburg): 1-for-3 - If not for Thompson’s single in the top of the eighth (just before torrential rain came), the Hillcats would have been no-hit in this one.
Luis De La Cruz (1B, ACL Guardians): 2-for-4, 2 R, 2 RBIs - De La Cruz plated a pair of runs in the midst of the five-run first inning via an RBI single. He now has 10 RBIs in the month of June and 26 on the season.
Tyler Naquin (RP, ACL Guardians): W (1-0), 2.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 BBs, 2 Ks - In his last seven innings pitched (six games), Naquin has allowed just one hit and one earned run. Walks have still been a bit of an issue - but his June hasn’t been as disastrous as his May was in Arizona.
Angel Perez (RP, ACL Guardians): H (2), 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BBs, 2 Ks - Perez went 1-2-3 in the seventh with a pair of K’s and an infield popup to go 6.1 straight scoreless frames.
Santiago Peraza (RP, ACL Guardians): 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BBs, K - Peraza has now kept opponents off the board in three straight appearances after a less than stellar beginning of the month of June with seven earned runs in just over two innings pitched.