The 2026 Winter Meetings featured plenty of bombshell moves. Kyle Schwarber returning to the Philadelphia Phillies. Pete Alsono defecting from the Mets to head to the Orioles. The Dodgers signed Edwin Díaz.
Last year the Guardians were one of the main players at the Winter Meetings when they traded Andrés Giménez to the Blue Jays and acquired Luis Ortiz from the Pirates (two moves we didn’t love at the time.) This year they sat out most of the fanfare outside of signing reliever Connor Brogdon and picking reliever Peyton Pallatte in the Rule 5 Draft.