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Guardians Lefty Keeps Staking His Claim For A Rotation Spot
The Cleveland Guardians have Tanner Bibee, Luis L. Ortiz and Gavin Williams as virtual locks to make the 2025 rotation by Opening Day.
Then you have the candidates for the last two spots: Triston McKenzie, Slade Cecconi, Logan Allen, Ben Lively, Jakob Junis, Vince Velazquez, Kolby Allard and others.
After that, you have prospects with an outside chance of fighting for a spot on the MLB staff.
Left-hander Doug Nikhazy is a member of that last group.
Guardians Lefty Keeps Staking His Claim For A Rotation Spot
Then you have the candidates for the last two spots: Triston McKenzie, Slade Cecconi, Logan Allen, Ben Lively, Jakob Junis, Vince Velazquez, Kolby Allard and others.
After that, you have prospects with an outside chance of fighting for a spot on the MLB staff.
Left-hander Doug Nikhazy is a member of that last group.
To say he has an uphill battle would be an understatement.
However, the southpaw had another solid outing and won’t give up until the manager cuts him or he makes the talented Cleveland roster.
Nikhazy also threw two scoreless innings in his spring debut against the Los Angeles Angels, with no walks and two strikeouts.
As a result, he is now up to four scoreless, hitless innings in which he has allowed a single walk and accumulated four strikeouts.
The 25-year-old continues to impress, and even though the competition is fierce, he wants a spot on the Guardians staff.
He proved last year that he can succeed at Double-A (3.17 ERA) and Triple-A (2.87 ERA).
Yes, he could use a few more strikeouts.
