The Cleveland Guardians will have representation at the 2026 World Baseball Classic. On Tuesday, Dec. 9, three players were chosen to participate with their respective nations to compete in the WBC, which is set to begin at the start of March 2026.
Three Cleveland Guardians can spend a bit of extra money on their Thanksgiving feasts this year. On Tuesday, Nov. 25, it was released that closer Cade Smith and starters Tanner Bibee and Gavin Williams received pretty nice raises in the pre-arbitration pool.
Cade Smith entered a new role with the Cleveland Guardians towards the end of 2025. At the end of July, All-Star closer Emmanuel Clase was placed on leave amid an MLB investigation due to illegal sports betting concerns.
The stars were out in full force during the 2025 World Series. From Max Scherzer in Toronto to Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts, and of course, Shohei Ohtani, in Los Angeles, there was no shortage of the game's best under the brightest lights.
The Cleveland Guardians have a perennially good bullpen. Their relief corps has ranked among the best in the league for several years now, leading the way in 2024 as the best in baseball.
The Cleveland Guardians’ bullpen is home to one of the better relievers in MLB, who also happens to be Canadian. Cade Smith, an Abbotsford native who is in just his second big league season, has posted some great numbers through his young career as a right-hander with devastating swing-and-miss pitches.
As the MLB trade deadline is almost a week away, the Los Angeles Dodgers are expected to scour the market for reliever help. With the plethora of injuries to the bullpen and the struggles of the veteran relievers, it's a big need.
The Los Angeles Dodgers have been a mixed bag as of late but still sit with an impressive record of 59-43 more than midway through the 2025 MLB season.
The Cleveland Guardians have seemingly turned their season around over the last two weeks, winning eight of their last 10 games after losing 10 straight in the middle of June.
If the Yankees can get creative and convince the Guardians to make a deal, it might not be the closer Emmanuel Clase that they are targeting. ESPN Insider’s
America's favorite pastime has more memorable performances than any sport. As such, figuring out which pitchers had the best seasons ever is no easy task.
The Guardians are listening to offers on their relievers, reports Jon Heyman of The New York Post. That includes a willingness to discuss their star back-end duo of Emmanuel Clase and Cade Smith, Heyman adds, though he unsurprisingly notes that the asking price is high enough that a trade of either pitcher remains a long shot.
The MLB trade deadline is inching closer and closer, which means that the Cleveland Guardians will have some difficult decisions to make over the next couple of weeks.
The Cleveland Guardians are in an interesting spot heading into the MLB trade deadline. At the All-Star Break, they're 46-49 and 4.5 games out of a Wild Card spot in the American League.
The Seattle Mariners beat the Cleveland Guardians 7-2 on Friday night at T-Mobile Park, earning a much-needed victory after the M's had lost eight of their previous nine games.
The Cleveland Guardians marched into Comerica Park and stunned the Detroit Tigers, winning three of the four games in the series. Cleveland may still be 4.0 games back in the American League Central, but their performance on the road over the weekend certainly showed they are good enough to win the division.
The Philadelphia Phillies entered the 2025 season with a need for a right-handed reliever. After Jordan Romanos' poor start, that number has ballooned.
Cleveland's 7-0 win included four insurance runs in the top of the ninth inning, crushing Detroit's hope of mounting a comeback before even stepping up to the plate.
The 2024 Cleveland Guardians won the American League Central for the fifth time in nine seasons and had their deepest run since losing the 2016 World Series.
The Cleveland Guardians comfortably won the AL Central in 2024, but this year, their hold on the division title is a long way from certain. With the Minnesota
With a run to the ALCS after reclaiming the AL Central in 2024, the biggest takeaway the Cleveland Guardians took from last season was how dominant their bullpen was.
On paper, Cleveland Guardians right-hander Cade Smith was one of the best relievers in all of baseball last winter. His 2.7 fWAR led all bullpen arms in 2024, besting teammate and elite closer Emmanuel Clase (2.2), a finalist for the AL Cy Young Award.
There seems to be a wealth of Canadian talent surfacing in the Major Leagues in the last few years. Several players have become regulars, like the Naylor brothers, Tyler O’Neill, and Cade Smith, who led all relief pitchers in fWAR last season.
The Guardians relievers collapsed spectacularly in the ALCS — unraveling at the worst possible moment against the New York Yankees. The result was a 4-1 series loss.
Now that about 70 percent of the MLB season is underway, it’s time to start talking about Rookie of the Year contenders. One of the best relievers in MLB currently is Cade Smith from the Cleveland Guardians.