James is back in the majors, although the team
knows he's still a work in progress. Catcher Zac
Collins came along with him to replace Pam Gallagher for
a short stint and soon Quanto should be back in
the mint. I'm Mandy Bell and this is the
beat report. The Guardians needed innings. Michael Kelly
went down a few nights ago with back spasms and
the team knew it couldn't afford to beat down an
arm for a couple of nights. So the Guardians
decided to call on James Kari to fill in some
big league innings. Guardians manager Terry Francona said that
Karan is still battling inconsistencies, but he's hoping that
the righty will be able to figure it out at
the big league level saying quote, we could use
a good James Collins knows that his stay in the
big leagues is going to be short when Cam Gallagher
took a foul tip off of his face mask in
Cincinnati earlier this week and then failed his concussion test
. Afterwards, the Guardians knew they needed another backstop
for at least seven days and because the reports on
Brian Lavasa have been trending in the right direction,
the Guardians didn't want to disrupt that progress for such
a short stint in the big leagues. So they
opted to go with Zach Collins who got off to
a red hot start in 2023 but has since watched
his average go from 3 13 at the beginning of
June down to 255. Now, the Guardians are
still working through where CAL quant will pitch on Sunday
, but they know it will either be with AAA
Columbus or a Akron. He's made two rehab appearances
so far and he's been stretched out to 70 pitches
this time. They're hoping that he'll be able to
get out to 85 pitches from there. The team
will need to determine if it's best to work him
back into the big league rotation for his next outing
or if it's better to have him make one more
rehab start. So then he'll be able to come
back on September 1st when rosters expand to 28 players
and that'll do it for the beat report for all
your Guardians news. Be sure to check cle guardians
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. I'm Mandy Bell.