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When you look across the landscape of Major League Baseball, it's clear that the biggest surprise among all the division leaders is the team that sits first in the A.L. Central, the Cleveland Guardians.

The L.O.L. goes Castro, he comes from doing drafts. The guy hand run scores. Here comes Rosario, he'll score too.

Captain Clutch does it again for Cleveland.

If you go back in time to the spring and the start of this season, the expectations for this team were pretty low.

The 23rd ranked team by our audience in baseball, the Cleveland Guardians. I see more of a pack for the royals to have like a fun, silly wild card attempt season than I do the Guardians.

I'm thinking in the under here just barely. I think they're going to just barely sneak in 75 wins.

Today we're joined by the athletics Zach Meisel to look at some of the key factors behind this team's unexpected success and the throwback style they're using to get it done.

So remember, oh, I don't know, a hundred years ago when your favorite team had players named Socks and Peaches and Home Run, Baker and his team resembles how those guys played.

From Wondry, I'm Matt Stroud. It's Wednesday, August 24th, and this is the lead.

So, Zach, before we get into looking at this Guardian season, there's something else important I need to ask you about.

You have a 2022 helmet tracker going for Jose Ramirez, basically a tracker of some sort for Jose Ramirez helmets.

That number as of this interview sits at 70. So for anyone who doesn't follow the Guardians, can you explain what's going on there?

So he's one of the maybe the most under the radar superstars in the sport and has been for quite some time.

And one of his, the things that make him who he is is that helmet is always flying off when he's running around the bases.

So 70 times this season, he's closing in on his career high and the best part is at the end of last season, someone asked him, when are you just going to get a bigger helmet?

When is this going to end? And he said, well, I think there's a guy out there who who counts these.

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