{"id":277820,"date":"2025-11-07T19:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/277820\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T19:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T19:29:12","slug":"guardians-part-ways-with-ben-lively-and-kolby-allard-despite-key-contributions-to-playoff-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/277820\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians part ways with Ben Lively and Kolby Allard despite key contributions to playoff runs"},"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. 07, 2025, 12:39 p.m.|Published: Nov. 07, 2025, 12:33 p.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Kolby Allard\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/YN4TGWZABFHXTBFPQJGY4EWKNI.jpg\"\/>Kolby Allard.MLB Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"UIU5ZLR7WBAVZHZ5NMNWCRBWEU\">CLEVELAND, Ohio \u2014 The champagne has barely dried from the Guardians\u2019 playoff run, but the cold business of baseball stops for no one. Cleveland made several surprising roster moves this week, outrighting five players to Triple-A who subsequently elected free agency, including key contributors Ben Lively and Kolby Allard \u2013 decisions that highlight the sometimes ruthless calculations behind building a winning team.<\/p>\n<\/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. 07, 2025, 12:39 p.m.|Published: Nov. 07, 2025, 12:33 p.m.Kolby Allard.MLB Photos via Getty Images CLEVELAND, Ohio&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[4650,367,1558,70732,70735,98521,363,99],"class_list":["post-277820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-al","tag-american-league","tag-baseball","tag-cle","tag-gettyimages","tag-kc","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277820","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=277820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}