CLEVELAND, Ohio — When it comes to building effective bullpens without breaking the bank, few organizations have mastered the art quite like the Guardians. Year after year, the front office identifies overlooked veteran relievers, signs them to reasonable contracts, and watches as they become key contributors to one of baseball’s most consistently effective relief corps.

The latest Cleveland Baseball Talk Podcast delved into this proven strategy, with beat writers Joe Noga and Paul Hoynes highlighting how this approach could once again bear fruit with recently non-tendered reliever Mark Leiter Jr. potentially fitting the mold.

“Yeah, they, they’ve gone out historically over the last couple of seasons and brought in a guy like a Paul Sewald and tried to get some veteran innings out of him

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