CLEVELAND — Welcome to the Meisel Mailbag. Let’s get straight to your questions, which have been lightly edited for clarity.What happens to the roster when Gabriel Arias comes off the injured list? — Eric L.He’s expected to begin a rehab assignment in the near future, and since he’s missed nearly two months, it should be a lengthy one. He has taken groundballs with the Guardians in recent days, and he went through a pregame routine at Double-A Akron on Wednesday.In the time since Arias suffered a strained hamstring, there’s been quite a development on the Guardians’ infield: Brayan Rocchio and Travis Bazzana are the middle-infield tandem of the present and the future. Arias is Tom Hanks in “Cast Away,” returning home from years at sea to discover his girlfriend is married. Sorry, man. The Guardians moved on. Maybe Arias joins the bench as a utility infielder, though the Guardians have that covered with Daniel Schneemann. Maybe he gets designated for assignment. Maybe he befriends a volleyball. The Guardians have a few weeks to solve this puzzle.Does Bo Naylor have any real trade value anymore? — Robert M.When they traded for Patrick Bailey, who has his own offensive shortcomings, the Guardians essentially told the world they were done waiting on Naylor’s bat to wake up and were instead prioritizing catcher defense. I’ve heard of at least one team poking around to see if Naylor would be an upgrade to its own catching situation. My guess is eventually the Guardians will trade him for some cash or a lottery ticket. They already have Bailey, Austin Hedges and David Fry on the big-league roster, and they like the promise of Cooper Ingle and Kody Huff at Triple A and Jacob Cozart, their second-round pick in 2024.Of the other four AL Central teams, who is a contender and who is a pretender in terms of winning a division title? Or will the Guardians run away with this thing like it’s 2017 again? — Michael J.It’s certainly set up on a tee for the Guardians. The Tigers are a mess, and while we can point to the Guardians erasing an 11-game deficit last September as a reason not to count anyone out, Detroit doesn’t have the luxury of waiting that long to reverse course. The Tigers’ front office needs to decide whether to trade Tarik Skubal long before then. The Royals ranked No. 24 in the league in ERA and No. 26 in OPS. That doesn’t scream contender. The White Sox can mash, and they’re young and spunky enough to be a pest all summer. I’m not sure what to make of the Twins, who have a wretched bullpen and a bunch of underperforming hitters yet keep hanging around.Do you think the Guardians can get to 88 wins (they’re on pace for 92)? The Tigers would have to go 66-39 to get to 88 wins, jumping from a .386 winning percentage thus far to a .629 winning percentage the rest of the way. It’s the Guardians’ division to lose, as long as they don’t play with their food, to steal a phrase from Donovan Mitchell.I don’t recall ever seeing José Ramírez so frustrated with missing hittable pitches. He’s always shaking his head. Is this just a slump or something worse? What does the data say? — Paul S.Ramírez’s whiff rate, walk rate and strikeout rate are all elite, per usual. In fact, his walk rate is the highest it’s been since 2018, and ranks No. 14 in MLB. He’s one of 11 qualified hitters with more walks than strikeouts. OK, fine, but his slugging percentage is .396. He’s clearly not hitting the ball with authority, right? Well, his hard-hit rate and average exit velocity are as high as they’ve ever been. His chase rate is in line with his norm. His bat speed is down 0.7 mph (but is about where it was a few years ago). His expected slugging percentage (based on his contact quality) is higher than it was last year and in line with what it was in 2024, when he piled up 39 home runs and 39 doubles.So, what’s going on here? He hits the ball in the air a ton (70 percent of the time), and, by his standards, he’s pulling the ball less and hitting it to the middle of the field more. That’s not the most fruitful formula. It’s what Cleveland’s hitting experts pointed to when Naylor wasn’t benefiting from solid contact in April. Ramírez is at his best when he’s yanking the ball to his pull side. But that’s tough to execute consistently if he’s being pitched away, and one area in which his whiff rate has actually increased this year is on pitches up and away, so he’s giving pitchers a reason to keep attacking him with pitches he can’t pummel.TL;DR: He’ll probably be fine.How’s Ben Lively doing? How’s his rehab going? — Michelle N.He’s working through a throwing program at the team’s complex in Arizona, and his fastball recently clocked in at 90 mph, so he joked with Guardians manager Stephen Vogt that he’s ready to return, since that’s about what Lively averaged on his fastball before his elbow begged for mercy. Next week will mark one year since Lively’s Tommy John surgery. He could return for a cameo late in the season, but he signed a two-year minor-league deal with the club, so the Guardians won’t rush him.If Cooper Ingle isn’t going to switch positions, what’s the path to him getting called up, outside of an injury? Are there any benchmarks for Daniel Espino to clear before he can come up? — Brett N.Ingle takes groundballs on the infield and shags fly balls in the outfield before games, and not because the Guardians have directed him to do so. He just enjoys it. They want him solely focused on catching, though, before they consider whether to have him branch out. One evaluator in the organization surmised it wouldn’t take Ingle long to get comfortable in a corner outfield spot. He split his time between catcher and the outfield at Clemson.As for Espino, they want him to experience all the scenarios a reliever can encounter, whether recording an out in multiple innings, or pitching twice in three days, or pitching without such a regimented schedule. Overall, the Guardians are pleased with his progress this season, especially his last four outings, after he cleaned up some command issues. In that span, he had no walks and nine strikeouts across 3 2/3 scoreless innings.Is there any chance the Guardians would engage the Tigers on a possible Skubal rental? We have the prospects to get it done and have traded with Detroit in the past. — Joe H.Imagine Skubal, Gavin Williams and Parker Messick in an AL Division Series. Yeah, that’d play. I’m going to assume, though, that Detroit president of baseball operations Scott Harris will refuse the dose of humility that would come with dealing his ace to the team that has lived in his nightmares the last few years, especially when he’s sure to field interest from the Dodgers, Cubs, Brewers, Rays and every other contender. The Tigers have played hardball with the Guardians in the past. The Guardians inquired about Jack Flaherty a couple of years ago but weren’t thrilled with the asking price relative to what the Dodgers ultimately forked over for him. That said, the Guardians have the ammo in the farm system to go get any player they want this summer.Would Travis Kelce make for a better late-inning power arm out of the bullpen or a pinch hit power bat off the bench? — Andy J.Did you see how he spiked his ceremonial first pitch ahead of the 2023 home opener and put Shane Bieber’s life at risk? It’s better for everyone if he’s a pinch hit power bat, in the Jason Giambi mold, just without the lucky gold thong.