Guardians and Travis Bazzana agree to terms on a contract [Video]

The Guardians made it very clear how much time and effort they spent in making the decision to take Travis Bazzana with their number one overall pick in this year’s draft, and for Bazzana that feeling was mutual.

For Chris Antonetti and the Guardians, Bazzana checked all the boxes of what they were looking to bring to the organization. And just as importantly, the Guardians organization checked all of the boxes for Bazzana.

“The culture at the big-league level, the young players, the intelligence of the organization, and the consistency of winning over the past ten years put the Guards in such a powerful spot for where I wanted to be,” Bazzana said in his introductory press conference. “I came out of those meetings [with Chris Antonetti] with a true gut feeling that Cleveland is where I wanted to be, and it was the org where I was going to …