This story was excerpted from Tim Stebbins’ Guardians Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. CLEVELAND -- Steven Kwan's future with the Guardians has been a subject of conversation in recent years, through the lens of both a potential

CLEVELAND -- Two frequent recipes for success for the 2026 Guardians were Parker Messick starting a game and Cade Smith finishing one off. Soon, both pitchers could be honored for their stellar individual campaigns. Messick was named a finalist for the American League Rookie of the Year Award and the

CLEVELAND -- The exclusive list of Cleveland pitchers to win a Rawlings Gold Glove Award now stands at two. Tanner Bibee earned his first career Gold Glove Award on Sunday, joining Shane Bieber (2022) as the only pitchers in Cleveland franchise history to receive the honor.

The Arizona Fall League created a Fall Stars Game in 2006 to highlight the most talented players in a circuit full of top prospects. The first 19 contests spotlighted several future big league notables such as Ronald Acuña Jr., Pete Alonso, Mookie Betts, Bryce Harper, Aaron Judge, Francisco Lindor, Andrew

In last year’s Arizona Fall League Fall Stars Game, Kevin McGonigle led off for the American League, Hagen Smith struck out a pair in a scoreless inning of relief and Sam Antonacci picked up two RBIs, including the game-winner on a walk-off sacrifice fly in the ninth inning of the

CLEVELAND -- The emotions were fresh after the crushing conclusion to the Guardians’ 2026 season when catcher Austin Hedges was asked the impossible question. What were Hedges’ immediate thoughts on his future? “I hope this isn’t the last time I put a Cleveland jersey on," Hedges said after the Guardians’

This page will be updated throughout the offseason to reflect the team’s latest transactions and any injury updates.

The World Series is over but you can still watch live baseball featuring many of baseball's top up-and-coming players. The 34th annual Arizona Fall League season is in full swing, and you can watch top prospects from all 30 MLB organizations throughout November as AFL matchups are once again streaming

Konnor Griffin and Kevin McGonigle entered the 2026 season ranked as baseball's two best prospects, in that order, on MLB Pipeline's Top 100. Griffin made his big league debut in April at age 19 and starred in May before a pair of injuries sidelined him for most of the next

CLEVELAND -- The Guardians made their first wave of offseason roster moves on Friday, in announcing they've declined their half of right-hander Shawn Armstrong's mutual option and right-hander Trevor Stephan’s club option for the 2027 season. Armstrong’s mutual option was worth $8 million vs. a $1.5 million buyout, and Stephan’s

This story was excerpted from Tim Stebbins’ Guardians Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. CLEVELAND -- Parker Messick entered Spring Training this year with seven big league starts to his name, a resumé that had him squarely on

The 2026 postseason is in the books, and it ended in a way we’d never seen before. The Brewers laid waste to the baseball landscape and romped to the first World Series title in franchise history. Milwaukee closed out the Tampa Bay Rays with a 4-1 win in Game 5

The postseason is momentous. It is a collection of stories and stats and, most of all, snapshots. After the long, slow grind of the regular season, these great teams and elite athletes have to summon something extra within themselves to come through in the clutch while the rest of us

CLEVELAND -- Manager Stephen Vogt and right-hander Tanner Bibee took a 40-minute walk before the Guardians’ season-ending 7-3 loss to the Rays in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series. It provided Bibee an open channel of communication. Bibee led the Guardians in starts (33) and innings pitched (188)

CLEVELAND -- Stephen Vogt acknowledged the difficulty of being away from his family, which is based in Olympia, Wash., for extended stretches over the course of the baseball season. But he also made one thing clear on Thursday. He can’t wait to run it back with the Guardians next season.

This story was excerpted from Tim Stebbins’ Guardians Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. CLEVELAND -- The pain behind the end of the Guardians' 2026 season is still fresh. The Rays eliminated Cleveland from the postseason in Game

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- When the Guardians announced Welbyn Francisca as the headliner of their 2023 international signing class, he was seen as a prospect with enormous upside despite his modest stature. Even as a teenager, Francisca had oodles of bat speed, which gave credence to the idea that as he

The winners of the 2026 Fielding Bible Awards, honoring the best defender in Major League Baseball at every position, were announced on Thursday. The Fielding Bible Awards pick one player at each of the nine positions as the top fielder in MLB at that position, as well as one "multi-position"

ST. PETERSBURG -- No one was ready for it to end. The Guardians could begin to taste a trip to the World Series. But with a 7-3 loss to the Rays in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series on Monday night, Cleveland’s 2026 season came to a close.

You can only make one first impression. Organizations handle recent Draft picks in all sorts of ways. Sometimes, they’ll hold them back for lighter work at the Spring Training complex, work that continues into fall instructs or bridge-league play. Sometimes, they’ll push them out to an affiliate to get their

ST. PETERSBURG -- So soon after the ending of the 2026 Guardians, it feels impossible to think about what comes next. That’s the cruel part of this postseason deal. Being a great team isn’t enough, and at times over the past month, the Guardians were truly great. Unless you’re the

ST. PETERSBURG -- As Stephen Vogt made the rounds in the Guardians' clubhouse Monday night, embracing the players who were fresh off a heartbreaking finish to the 2026 season, he eventually reached Austin Hedges’ locker. There, Vogt and Hedges shared a long hug, before the skipper placed his hands on

Each season begins with optimism across the 30 MLB fan bases, and each one ends with some level of disappointment for 29 of them. Only one team can win the World Series every year, but some fan bases have been waiting a long time to see their team raise the