The division reports debuted last year. The goal of this article series is to provide a quick overview of all dynasty-relevant information from each division. Each team has multiple minor league levels, each containing plenty of impactful prospects, which can feel impossible to keep up with. This article series, which will be updated once per month, will help dynasty managers stay up-to-date on performances, injuries, promotions, and more. New this season is the inclusion of tiers in the rankings. Next to their rank, each prospect is assigned a tier. The tier range is 1-5.
- Tier 1: A potential difference-making dynasty prospect. Somebody who would rank in the top-20ish prospects for dynasty baseball
- Tier 2: A still very good dynasty prospect who holds plenty of value. This prospect would typically rank in the 21-75 range
- Tier 3: A mid-tier prospect who could be valuable but has questions and concerns present in his profile, ranking in the 76-150 range
- Tier 4: A prospect who is worth knowing, but is reserved for deeper leagues. This prospect would rank 151-250
- Tier 5: The rest of the prospects fall into Tier 5
The Guardians’ farm system has taken some hits this last month, with half of their top 10 prospects on the injured list at their respective affiliate levels. See which ones will be on the shelf for the time being and which players are stepping up in their place.
Notable Prospect Performances:
- The Guardians’ future catcher, Cooper Ingle, had an incredible month of May with Double-A Akron. He posted a .345/.472/.607 slash line with three home runs, 17 RBI, 21 walks, and 13 doubles, which led the team in all categories, except RBI, which was held by outfielder Jorge Burgos, who had 23. Ingle’s hot May was a big turnaround from his slow start out of the gate in April, and shows promising signs of what’s to come for him, despite being a 5’8″ catcher. If Ingle can put up another month with numbers similar or better than what he had in May, he would no doubt earn himself a promotion to Triple-A Columbus before the All-Star break.
- Chase DeLauter got back into game action towards the end of May after he missed several weeks due to a sports hernia. DeLauter began his journey back to Triple-A with a rehab assignment in the Arizona Complex League, going 4-for-22, which included two home runs, in eight games. DeLauter has only played in six games since rejoining Triple-A Columbus last week and has gone 4-for-21 so far with just one home run. The numbers aren’t awe inspiring out of the gate for DeLauter, but since it’s only his second week of playing every day after missing most of spring training and the first seven weeks of the regular season, there shouldn’t be as big a need for dynasty fantasy owners who have DeLauter to be concered about what’s to come for him this season.
Notable Prospect News and Promotions:
- Travis Bazanna won’t be seeing any playing time during the month of June. He suffered an oblique strain in a game on May 14 and was placed on the 7-day IL two days later. The Guardians front office doesn’t anticipate him returning to the lineup in Akron before July 8. The number one overall pick in the 2024 draft was hitting .252/.362/.433 with four home runs and 17 RBI in 33 games with Double-A Akron before he was placed on the shelf to heal from his strained oblique. The setbacks are a blow to Bazanna’s timeline to arrive in the majors this summer, but it doesn’t rule him out of being a September call-up for dynasty managers to snag, as long as he tears the cover off the ball once he returns from the injured list.
- Andrew Walters rejoined the major league club on May 28 and was on the mound for two Guardians games last week. His performance on the mound didn’t fare well in either game as he allowed a run to score in each outing and exited his outing on Friday early after allowing a home run to Jorge Soler in the top of the ninth. Walters was placed on the 15-day IL the next day with a right lat strain and could miss more than a month of time on the mound.
