Former Guardians pitcher Carlos Carrasco has signed a minor league deal with the New York Yankees, marking his second stint with the team after a three-season run with the New York Mets. The podcast discusses Carrasco's career resurgence, his potential role with the Yankees, and the possibility of him making the opening day roster. It also reminisces about Carrasco's near-no-hitter with the Guardians in 2015.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Top draft picks and longtime prospects will compete for one of the lone glaring openings in the Guardians lineup when spring training gets underway next week. The competition is sure to be fierce as Cleveland looks to replace Gold Glove winner Andres Gimenez. On Tuesday’s podcast, Paul Hoynes and Joe Noga break down the candidates to become manager Stephen Vogt’s second base man, and what some of the hopefuls for the spot need to do in order to make an impression.
Register for Guardians Subtext to hear your Cleveland Baseball questions answered exclusively on the show. Send a text to 216-208-4346 to subscribe for $3.99/mo.Read the automated transcript of today’s podcast below. Because it’s a computer-generated transcript, it may contain errors and misspellings.0:05 Welcome back to the Cleveland Baseball Talk podcast. I’m Joe noga. Joined by Paul Hoynes. Hoinze familiar face for Guardians fans landing in a familiar place as Carlos Carrasco signs a minor league deal with a spring training invite with the New York Yankees. I guess if you can’t beat him, join him, huh? Second trip to New York for Carlos Carrasco, who spent three seasons with the Mets after being traded there and following the 2020 season, along with Francisco Lindor. Carrasco came back, obviously, to the Guardians last season in a similar deal. Minor league invite made the club made 21 appearances with three and 10, but by September it was. It was pretty obvious. Cookies time with the the Guardians was was over. They had him out. I believe it was game five of the Division series against Detroit. He threw out the first pitch and that was sort of a ceremonial parting of the ways between Cookie and the organization. But this is a guy who Chris Antonetti says Will will always have a place and will always be beloved by everyone within the franchise.1:20 Yeah, just a great guy, Joe. We saw him go from, you know, starter Tommy John surgery to the bullpen, then kind of revitalized his career as a as a frontline starter and became one of the best starters in the American League. Then he gets traded to the Mets with Francisco Lindor. He comes back last year and like you said, made 21 starts. And I’m just glad he’s he’s getting another chance. Joe, because obviously he wanted to keep pitching. He made that pretty clear at the end of the year that he wasn’t ready to retire. He’s 37 and hopefully find some magic with the Yankees.2:02 Yeah, he’ll pitch this season. I believe his birthday’s coming up in March. He’ll pitch this season at age 38. And what? He from 2014 to 2018, like you said, one of the most dominant pitchers in the American League. When healthy, he was. A strikeout guy, an innings eater. You know, he had his his best season with the Mets was 2022. Pitched 152 innings and and had a 3.97 ERA. But you know it the the velocities dropped the the home runs have have shot up and and and really you know he he says he wants to pitch until he’s 40. That would be two more seasons, you know. Where does he fit with the Yankees, who obviously have one of the most loaded rotations in all of baseball? With, you know Garrick Cole, Max free. Carlos Rodon in the in the front of that rotation. Does does Cookie get an opportunity to come back and? If not as a starter, maybe as a guy in the bullpen.3:16 Yeah, Joe, and you know the Yankees, like almost every other team last year, had a lot of injury problems. Garrett Cole started the year on on the IL. So you never know. You know, I think it’s, you know, Cookie’s gonna have to pitch well, and he’s gonna have to have good fortune on his side to to, you know, to open the season with the Yankees. And, you know, he’s kind of at that stage. You. Know is he willing to go to AAA? Are the Yankees willing to send him to AAA if he doesn’t make the big league club? You know, and wait his turn. You know, it’s it’s going to be an interesting situation. Usually those veteran guys that signed a minor league deals. To come to spring training with the Big League Cup club have been out in their contract. If they don’t make the the team out of camp, so we’ll have to keep an eye on on Carlos. You know, Joe, the thing the the my lasting memory of of Carrasco is what I think 2015, a Tropicana Field, one strike within a within a the first no hitter since Lenny Barker.4:18 What in 1983 and and I can’t. I can’t remember. There was a single over in the right field. I still can’t remember the guy’s name that hit it, but it was a two strike single right over Jason Kipnis of Kipnis had been as tall as LeBron James. You know, Carrasco would have had a no hitter.4:38 Yeah, that would’ve been would have been a special moment for Cookie. Still still impressive to, you know, have gone as deep into that game with, you know, with a no hitter as as he did. But yeah, every time we we come close to seeing another Guardians pitcher put up a a perfect game or a no hitter, we we think back to that moment as wel
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