The Guardians have seen their fair share of surprising internal contributors over the past few years, the most obvious being Oscar Gonzalez and David Fry. As I was looking over numbers Columbus in 2024 there was a name that jumped out to me: Micah Pries. Ever since then I have been keeping an eye on him as a potential major league piece, and this spring he sold me.
Pries is a 27 year old first baseman that hits lefty and throws righty. He can technically occupy a corner outfield spot as well. He has spent the last two seasons at AAA and both were rather uninspiring; in neither year did he have a wRC+ above average.