Cleveland Guardians Spring Training Prospect Report 3/19/25

Is Juan Brito making a late case at second base?

Scoreboard

Athletics 8, Cleveland Guardians 3 (Statcast)

Los Angeles Angels 6, Cleveland Guardians 3 - (No Statcast)

Starters

Juan Brito (2B vs Athletics): 1-for-3, 2B, RBI, GIDP - Brito delivered an RBI double to put the Guardians in front in the midst of a three-run bottom of the third.

Johnathan Rodriguez (DH vs Athletics): 1-for-3 - A seventh inning single salvaged a day that also consisted of a pair of strikeouts for Rodriguez.

Will Wilson (3B vs Angels): 1-for-3, R, 2B - Back-to-back games with a start and back-to-back games with a hit for Wilson as he slugged his third double of the 2025 spring training. Wilson is having a quality spring with a .321 batting average over 28 at-bats thus far.

Micah Pries (1B vs Angels): 1-for-3, R, HR, 2 RBIs - A two-run homerun in the top of the eighth off the bat of Micah Pries put the Guardians in front 3-1 over the Angels. He now has a 1.337 OPS with two homeruns and eight RBIs this spring (24 at-bats).

Reserves

Gabriel Rodriguez (SS vs Athletics): 0-for-1 - The 17-year-old got a plate appearance in the split squad game, his first of spring training. He would groundout to the third baseman.

Garrett Howe (2B vs Athletics): 0-for-1 - Howe also received his first plate appearance of the spring and struck out.

Juan Benjamin (3B vs Athletics): 0-for-0 - Defensive replacement in the eighth

Yanki Baptiste (1B vs Athletics): 0-for-0 - Defensive replacement in the ninth

Jake Anchia (C vs Athletics): 0-for-0, E2T - Defensive replacement in the ninth

Wuilfredo Antunez (RF vs Angels): 0-for-1, E9F - Antunez entered the game in the bottom of the seventh but was charged with an error in the outfield and struck out in his lone plate appearance.

Dom Nunez (C vs Angels): 0-for-2 - Nunez split time with Hedges as the catcher on Wednesday and went hitless at the plate.

Jonah Advincula (LF vs Angels): 0-for-0 - Defensive replacement in the seventh

Relievers

Nick Mikolajchak (RP vs Athletics): BS (1), 0.2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BBs, 0 Ks - The 27-year-old right-hander allowed an inherited runner to score in the fifth on a sacrifice fly.

Jack Jasiak (RP vs Athletics): 0.1 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 0 BBs, 0 Ks - The hardest hit ball of the day for the Athletics came on a solo homerun by Tyler Soderstrom off of Jasiak (109.4 mph).

Steven Perez (RP vs Angels): BS (1), 0.1 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 0 BBs, 0 Ks - Perez surrendered a single and a two-run homerun in the ninth to give up both the lead and create an insurmountable deficit for the offense with three outs to play.

Did Not Play

vs Athletics

RP Reny Artiles

RP Ross Carver

RP Alonzo Richardson

C Bennett Thompson

OF Juneiker Cacares

vs Angels

RP Parker Mushinski

RP Shawn Rapp

RP Kyle Scott

C Reiner Herrera

INF Christian Knapczyk

INF Yaikel Mijares

OF Robert Arias

OF Carlos Gutierrez