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Guardians Designate Anthony Gose For Assignment

By Steve Adams | September 9, 2024 at 3:32pm CDT

The Guardians designated left-hander Anthony Gose for assignment … again. Cleveland announced Monday that Gose has been DFA in favor of fellow southpaw Joey Cantillo, who has been recalled from Triple-A Columbus.

It’s the fourth DFA of the past month for the out-of-options Gose, who has fully embraced the depth role in which the Guardians have placed him. He can’t be optioned to the minors, so Cleveland has continually designated him for assignment and passed him through waivers, at which point Gose has either accepted an outright assignment or briefly elected free agency and near-immediately re-signed on a new minor league deal.

It’s an odd cycle but not an entirely unfamiliar one. The Yankees have gone this route with righties David Hale and Ryan Weber in the past. The Marlins have done the same this year with lefty Kent Emanuel, just as they did with Devin Smeltzer in 2023. Gose is clearly fine with the tumultuous and somewhat unconventional arrangement, as he’s getting frequent MLB service time and pay out of it and agreeing to return to the organization each time. Granted, not all of those situations featured such rapid-fire selections to the majors and immediate DFAs, but it’s conceptually the same scenario.

Gose allowed two runs in an inning of work during his most recent brief stint with the Guards. He’s pitched in three games this season and yielded runs in all of them, combining for five runs on nine hits and a walk with four strikeouts in 4 1/3 innings. He’s posted better run-prevention numbers in Triple-A, logging a 3.27 earned run average with a hearty 32.8% strikeout rate against a more troubling 14.7% walk rate.

The 2024 season is Gose’s first year back from a Tommy John procedure that wiped out his entire 2023 campaign. A former second-round pick who ranked as one of the top prospects in the game during his days as a center fielder, he’s still looking to establish himself as a viable big league option in the bullpen. Gose has pitched 32 innings in the majors since making the switch to the mound and recorded a 4.78 ERA with big strikeout numbers (29.7%) and also big walk issues (12.3%).

A two-way star in high school who had some draft interest as a pitcher, Gose was brandishing a fastball that averaged 99.3 mph when he made his mound debut in 2021. He’s since undergone elbow surgery and seen that average heater dip to 95.2 mph — still a well above-average mark (particularly for a lefty), but not the same type of overpowering offering it was a few years back. Gose is still piling up strikeouts in Triple-A, but the command of his fastball/slider combination is a work in progress. He’ll head back to waivers and likely clear quickly before returning to the Guardians, whether via outright assignment or again electing free agency and signing a new minor league pact while he awaits his next call to the majors.

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  1. solaris602

    10 months ago

    The musical accompaniment for this article is Dionne Warwick’s “Deja Vu”.

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  2. joeflaccosunibrow

    10 months ago

    His Goose is cooked

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  3. BlooperDisbeliever

    10 months ago

    May as well set up scheduled posts for him at this point.
    Or have a betting pool for when the resigning will occur.

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  4. Baseball77

    10 months ago

    I think it would be nice to have the next CBA fix this carousel that FOs use to cycle through players. Maybe increase the option years on players or put into place a rule that a player added to the active roster must remain on it for at least 20 days except in cases of injury or trades (where the player is traded). This “roster flexibility “ does nothing for the players involved.

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    • ClevelandSpidersFromMars

      10 months ago

      Au contraire. Gose gets major league pay every time he gets called up. Beats that AAA check.

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    • KingZeke8

      10 months ago

      Here’s the thing though: Gose could’ve accepted any of the DFA’s and gone outright to the minors. He didn’t. He refuses each time.

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      • layventsky

        10 months ago

        And yet he continues to re-sign with CLE.

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    • StudWinfield

      10 months ago

      Why would Gose want a team team to have exclusive option rights on him? His dfa carousel has the same effect as an optionable player. But, get this, he has the choice of staying or going or resigning. Explain why he would want to give up that?

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      • layventsky

        10 months ago

        He already went through that as an outfielder when he still had options, just like every other MLB player.

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    • DodgersBro

      10 months ago

      B77

      “I think it would be nice to have the next CBA fix this carousel that FOs use to cycle through players. ”

      Why?

      What problem are you solving?

      That so many teams are cycling through players is a sign that they need more players.

      Rosters should be expanded

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  5. sad tormented neglected mariners fan

    10 months ago

    I TELL Y’ALL HE’S IN DFA PURGATORY

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  6. BSHH

    10 months ago

    Gose’s transition from CF to pitcher was all about perseverance. He came back from injuries as well. And now Gose shows the same perseverance throughout all the call-ups and DFAs. May his baseball career last much longer, he deserves it.

    Gruß,
    BSHH

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  7. Mercenary.Freddie.Freeman

    10 months ago

    Cleveland has not won a World Series since 1948 and this will not be the year either. Outside of Jose Ramirez and Naylor their hitters are boring. Time to rebuild complete tear down.

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  8. PutPeteinthehall

    10 months ago

    Troll, Tell me who’s going to win the series this year then? 2006 Cardinals won the series. Mariners 116 win team did not. Guardians have an excellent shot this season. Naylor brothers both have buzzers under their jersey’s too courtesy of Beltran!

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  9. DodgersBro

    10 months ago

    MFF

    “this will not be the year either.”

    More than likely, you are right

    Of course, you could say the same thing about literally EVERY team and still be right.

    So, curious, which teams do you think have a chance to win. And what would it mean if a team you didn’t list were to win?

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  10. McZesty

    10 months ago

    I agree there should be a roster freeze to avoid these shenanigans. Have to be up for 15 days unless there’s an IL stint.

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  11. cah011381

    10 months ago

    Geez, this guy just comes and Gose.

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  12. Buzzz Killington

    10 months ago

    The “… again.” Lol.

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  13. davengmusic

    10 months ago

    Sounds like a bad relationship. Took me six years to get rid of my ex. Can these two last that long?

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    • CO Guardening

      10 months ago

      Ha! One is like “eh, I wouldn’t mind a warm body, but just so you know, this is a one game stand for us.” And the other is “no one else will pick me up…sure why not.”

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  14. Acw0rmj

    10 months ago

    He comes and Gose

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  15. Niekro floater

    10 months ago

    Gose-hog day over n over n over …

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