{"id":343231,"date":"2025-12-11T23:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/343231\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T23:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:50:09","slug":"guardians-sign-reliever-holderman-to-1-year-1-5-million-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/343231\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians sign reliever Holderman to 1-year, $1.5 million deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 11, 2025, 05:59 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>CLEVELAND &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/cle\/cleveland-guardians\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Guardians<\/a> added to their bullpen Thursday, signing right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4917897\/colin-holderman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Holderman<\/a> to a one-year, $1.5 million contract.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year old Holderman spent the past four seasons with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/pit\/pittsburgh-pirates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a>, then became a free agent three weeks ago when the Pirates failed to offer a 2026 contract. He was 0-2 with a 7.01 ERA in 24 appearances. He had two stints on the injured list due to a right knee sprain and right thumb inflammation.<\/p>\n<p>Holderman made 113 appearances during 2023 and &#8217;24 seasons, the second-most on the Pirates in that span, and posted a 3.52 ERA while going 3-9.<\/p>\n<p>Holderman was a ninth-round pick by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nym\/new-york-mets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mets<\/a> in the 2016 amateur draft. He made his big league debut in 2022 and went 5-0 with a 3.81 ERA in 24 games before being dealt to the Pirates.<\/p>\n<p>The signing puts the Guardians roster at the 40-man limit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 11, 2025, 05:59 PM ET CLEVELAND &#8212; The Cleveland Guardians added to their bullpen Thursday, signing right-hander&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-343231","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\/343231","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=343231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}