Guardians News: Games and Draft Complete, Now Derby and Exhibition

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PHILADELPHIA, PA - JULY 12: Ralphy Velazquez #22 of the American League Futures team during the 2026 All-Star Futures Game Presented by Nike at Citizens Bank Park on Sunday, July 12, 2026 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images) | MLB Photos via Getty Images

The Guardians swept the Marlins to end pre-break play and made their selections for rounds 5-20 yesterday.

Brian Hemminger has highlights of day two of the draft listed for you here and we will have a full draft class breakdown up soon.

Congratulations to our 2026 MLB Draft selections ️#GuardsBallpic.twitter.com/AO3VezW0D4

— GuardsInsider (@GuardsInsider) July 13, 2026

Nicole recapped an encouraging win and series sweep here. Chase DeLauter and Steven Kwan enter the break on quite a heater and Travis Bazzana does not.

Ralphy Velazquez got an RBI hit in MLB’s Futures’ Game yesterday and made a nice play at first base:

Ralphy Velazquez showing why he is MLB's No. 1 first base prospect @GuardsInsider | @CleGuardians | #FuturesGamepic.twitter.com/cuO0EvOPcd

— MLB Pipeline (@MLBPipeline) July 12, 2026

The Guardians made a bunch of exciting internal promotions yesterday and we say goodbye to Wuilfredo Antunez, Tommy Mace and Joe Lampe.

The Cleveland Guardians Player Development System has announced the following moves:

Promote OF Juneiker Caceres and LHP Harrison Bodendorf from Single-A Hill City to High-A Lake County.

Promote INF Dean Curley, OF Aaron Walton, OF Ryan Cesarini, OF/1B Nolan Schubart, and LHP…

— GuardsInsider (@GuardsInsider) July 13, 2026

I liked Antunez and Mace for a while, they just couldn’t get over the last few hurdles to become more than minor-leaguers.

MLB’s Home Run Derby is at 8PM tonight on Netflix. Here’s a preview of the field.

AROUND MLB:

The White Sox and Twins won and the Tigers and Royals lost. The Royals are 21 games under .500 so I am going to stop reporting what they did here unless they make a miraculous comeback. The shock of the pre-break portion of the season HAS to be the Mets being 17 games under .500.

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