With Shane Bieber set to receive Tommy John, Guardians’ fans got their first look in 2024 this week at Xzavion Curry and Ben Lively.
Both Curry and Lively had strong debuts, with Curry going five scoreless innings with two hits, one walk and three strikeouts versus the Red Sox on Monday and Lively going five innings against the Red Sox on Wednesday and giving up two runs (one on a technicality because of an procedural balk call), three hits, and one walk and striking out seven. You can see pretty clearly from expected stats which pitcher gave up the most hard contact with Curry’s ERA sitting at 7.