Guardians Weekly Team Roster Rankings | 5/15/23 – 5/21/23

May 22, 2023

Andy Billman

Player of the Week

This Week’s Cleveland Guardians Team Roster Rankings

Each Monday during the 2023 Cleveland Guardians season, we’ll provide you with our most recent Guardians Team Roster Rankings, offering perspectives and rational on the performance of your beloved Guards players (and perhaps the ones you’re not so fond of) and the impact they had on the previous week’s results. Do you concur with our assessments, or do you feel there are certain players we incorrectly positioned?

Up 14 Spots: Gabriel Arias

Down 9 Spots: Andres’s Gimenez

MVP

RankingPlayer Up | Down | SamePrevious
1Jose RamirezSame1
JRAM tried to lift the team to victory. He did his job!

2-10 | CAN’T WIN WITHOUT YOU

RankingPlayer Up | Down | SamePrevious
2Josh NaylorSame2
Naylor stayed hot and clutch over the week with a huge home run in the loss to the Mets.
3Shane BieberSame3
Bieber was Bieber against the Mets only giving up 2 runs and pitching a complete game.
4Tanner BibeeSame4
5Logan AllenSame5
6Steven KwanSame6
7Cal QuantrillUp10
8Gabriel AriasUp22
Quietly had a good weekend in Queens.
9Josh BellDown8
10Nick SandlinUp24
Had the best arm for the bullpen last week, though that isn’t saying much!

11-20 | C’MON, YOU CAN DO BETTER

RankingPlayer Up | Down | SamePrevious
11Amed RosarioSame11
12Myles StrawSame12
13Xzavion CurryUp19
14Sam HentgesSame14
15Emmanuel ClaseDown9
Very very very worried about his performances so far this year.
16Andres’s GimenezDown7
Gimenez has scored one run in May, ONE!
17Trevor StephanDown13
18Enyel De Los SantosSame18
19Eli MorganDown15
20Tyler FreemanSame20

21-26 | BRINGING US DOWN

Ranking Player Up | Down | SamePrevious
21Cam GallagherSame21
Someone has to catch the balls behind the plate.
22Will BrennanDown16
23Peyton BattenfieldSame23
Put on IL
24James KarinchakDown17
Would not even consider pitching him in tight spots when the Guards are up right now!
25David Fry Same25
26Mike ZuninoSame26
Can we please just end this pain?
N/ABo NaylorN/AN/A
Added to the roster for the Sunday doubleheader, got one at-bat, and caught 2 innings.
N/ATim HerrinN/AN/A
Brought up due to Battenfield’s injury

PLAYERS TO KEEP AN EYE ON

INJURED LIST | MINORS

Ranking Player Up | Down | SamePrevious
Tristen McKenzie
Getting closer to being ready, threw in minor league game on Saturday, 50 pitches
Aaron Civale
 Threw 5 innings last week in the minors, and looked good.
Cody Morris
On the 60-day injured list as of March 30th.
Zach Plesac
Oscar Gonzalez

DOWN ON THE FARM

PROSPECTS

RankingPlayer PositionPrevious
Gavin William’sRHP
Brayan Rocchio SS/2B/3B

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