Kevin Kelly and Nic Enright, eh? OK, color me surprised. I would have thought that every team had minor league relief pitchers who were basically organizational players. No way would I have ever have added them to the 40-man if I were GM as there are too many more impactful positions on the field than middle reliever. Good luck to those guys as this gives them a grab at the brass ring and, as relievers, probably a better than average chance of sticking with their drafting team.
Kudos also to the Guardians player development system and, specifically, their pitcher development system. It is hard now not to get uber-excited about the 2021 draft knowing how many college pitchers we drafted that year and that the Guardians have cranked out relievers of the caliber of Kelly and Enright by developing college pitchers drafted after round 10.
Though we may have lost two in the ML portion (minor league portion later) we still have Battenfield who gives us starting and maybe relieving depth at AAA.and we did not lose any position players. Hopefully Hankins and Torres Jr. are healthy this coming year and break out. Ditto for Gabriel and Jonathon Rodriguez.
In the minor league portion we lose LHP Eli Longos and gain RHP Bradley Hanner, C Michael Berglund and RHP Justin Lewis. We will have to wait to see about the new guys but it is great that we didn't lose anyone else from our top 78 (group after the 40-man roster and the 38 guys we could have protected on our AAA reserve list).
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