While the Guardians didn’t make a big splash last offseason after making it all the way to the American League Championship Series, they still had a busy offseason through a variety of trades and free agent signings.
With this year’s offseason set to begin next week, we decided to break out the red ink and regrade all of the moves the Guardians made in the lead up to the 2025 season.
Regrading all the moves the Cleveland Guardians made last offseason
Major league signings
Shane Bieber (two-year, $26 million deal)
Bieber likely would have been traded at the deadline in 2024 had he not suffered a season-ending arm injury in April, so the Guardians elected to re-sign him to a two-year deal to cover his rehab process in the hopes he could come back healthy.