Joey Cantillo

Below is a partial list of minor league baseball players in the Cleveland Guardians system.

Jason Peter Bilous (born August 11, 1997) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Cleveland Guardians organization.

Bilous attended Caravel Academy in Bear, Delaware.

Joseph Lopaka Cantillo (born December 18, 1999) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Cleveland Guardians organization.

Cantillo attended Kailua High School in Kailua, Hawaii where he played baseball.

He committed to play college baseball at the University of Kentucky.

Juan Manuel Brito (born September 24, 2001) is a Dominican professional baseball infielder in the Cleveland Guardians organization.

As a junior in 2014, he went 11–1 with 84 strikeouts over innings alongside batting .483.

He underwent Tommy John surgery during the fall of his senior year, and did not play a game that season.

He was selected by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 29th round of the 2015 Major League Baseball draft, but did not sign and instead enrolled at Coastal Carolina University where he played college baseball.

In 2016, as a freshman at Coastal Carolina, Bilous pitched innings, going 3–1 with a 4.43 ERA and 47 strikeouts as Coastal Carolina won the 2016 College World Series.

In 2016 and 2017, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Cotuit Kettleers of the Cape Cod Baseball League.

As a sophomore in 2017, he appeared in 13 games (ten starts) in which he went 3–2 with a 4.61 ERA and sixty strikeouts over innings.

In 2017, his senior year, he was named the Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year for the state of Hawaii after pitching to a 5–1 record and 1.24 earned run average (ERA) along with batting .517.

After his senior year, he was drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 16th round of the 2017 Major League Baseball draft and signed for $302,500.

After signing with the Padres, Cantillo made his professional debut with the Rookie-level Arizona League Padres; over eight innings, he compiled a 4.50 ERA.

In 2018, his junior year, he started 16 games and pitched to a 7–3 record and 4.00 ERA, striking out 105 over innings.

Following the season's end, he was selected by the Chicago White Sox in the 13th round of the 2018 Major League Baseball draft.

Bilous signed with the White Sox and made his professional debut with the Great Falls Voyagers of the Rookie Advanced Pioneer League, going 0–4 with a 7.85 ERA over innings.

Brito was signed by the Colorado Rockies as an international free agent on July 7, 2018.

On November 15, 2022, the Rockies traded him to the Cleveland Guardians in exchange for Nolan Jones; the same day, the Guardians added Brito to their 40-man roster to protect him from selection by another club in the 2022 Rule 5 draft.

Brito was optioned to the Triple-A Columbus Clippers to begin the 2023 season.

In 2018, he spent the majority of the year back in the Arizona League in which he went 2–2 with a 2.18 ERA over 11 games (nine starts), striking out 58 over innings.

He also pitched in one game for the Fort Wayne TinCaps of the Class A Midwest League at the end of the year.

In 2019, he played with the Kannapolis Intimidators of the Class A South Atlantic League where he pitched to a 6–10 record with a 3.70 ERA over 31 games (17 starts), striking out 113 batters over innings.

Cantillo returned to Fort Wayne to begin 2019.

During the season, he earned Midwest League Pitcher of the Week three times alongside earning Pitcher of the Month honors for June.

After pitching to a 9–3 record and a 1.98 ERA while striking out 128 batters over 98 innings (19 starts) with Fort Wayne, he was promoted to the Lake Elsinore Storm of the Class A-Advanced California League in August.

With Lake Elsinore, Cantillo made three starts in which he compiled a 4.61 ERA before being shut down for the season due to reaching his innings limit.

He did not play a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bilous began the 2021 season with the Winston-Salem Dash of the High-A East and was promoted to the Birmingham Barons of the Double-A South in late May.

Over twenty starts between the two clubs, Bilous went 3–8 with a 5.76 ERA and 106 strikeouts over innings.

On November 19, 2021, Chicago selected Bilous' contract and added him to their 40-man roster.

He returned to the Barons to open the 2022 season.

In early August, he was promoted to the Charlotte Knights of the Triple-A International League.

Over 31 games (21 starts) between the two teams, he went 6–11 with a 6.30 ERA, 131 strikeouts, and 79 walks over innings.

On February 3, 2023, Bilous was designated for assignment by Chicago following the acquisition of Frank German.

On February 9, 2023, Bilous was claimed off waivers by the Cleveland Guardians.

The Guardians designated Bilous for assignment on March 30.

He cleared waivers and was sent outright to the Triple-A Columbus Clippers on April 1.