{"id":276821,"date":"2025-11-07T07:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/276821\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T07:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:41:11","slug":"guardians-clear-five-players-from-40-man-roster-decline-option-on-veteran-lefty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/276821\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians clear five players from 40-man roster, decline option on veteran lefty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/guardians\/\" title=\"Navigate to Guardians\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guardians<\/a>Updated: Nov. 06, 2025, 6:26 p.m.|Published: Nov. 06, 2025, 5:47 p.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Ben Lively\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DWCDXZEM4FFNDKFXT5B6M465MA.jpg\"\/>The Guardians outrighted right-hander Ben Lively to Triple-A Columbus on Thursday and the veteran pitcher elected free agency.Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2MP2TY3EZREA7MDEWC7FAW5TLE\">CLEVELAND, Ohio \u2014 The Guardians announced several moves Thursday, parting ways with a handful of veteran pitchers and returning a trio of injured players to the club\u2019s 40-man major league roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"K2VNJMIC6FCJZI4YDTMFNSG47U\">Notably, Cleveland declined its $6 million club option on veteran pitcher John Means for 2026, making him a free agent. <\/p>\n<p>Joe Noga has more than 25 years experience in Cleveland sports media with time spent covering Browns, Cavaliers and Indians\/Guardians, as well as local high school and college sports and athletes. He covered a&#8230; more<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GuardiansUpdated: Nov. 06, 2025, 6:26 p.m.|Published: Nov. 06, 2025, 5:47 p.m.The Guardians outrighted right-hander Ben Lively to Triple-A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-276821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}