With a week left of the Triple-A Columbus Clippers’ season, the Cleveland Guardians are wasting no time plucking their roster clean. Today it was announced that outfielder Will Brennan was added to the 40-man roster and promoted, and Gabriel Arias was recalled to the majors.
In subsequent moves, Cleveland also optioned Richie Palacios back to Triple-A and designated Ernie Clement for assignment to make room for Brennan on the 40-man roster. Presumably, Clement’s infield utility role will be filled by Arias, while Brennan gets the very few at-bats that Palacios was getting down the stretch.
This isn’t Arias’ first rodeo, but it might as well.