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Brayan Rocchio's rookie season with the Cleveland Guardians ... Imagn Images / David Richard-Imagn Images Rocchio showed this development during Cleveland's playoff run last October.

We're at roughly the halfway point of spring training, and trends are starting to emerge for the Cleveland Guardians. Here are three takeaways from Cleveland's Cactus League games so far ...