Guardians News and Notes - John Means Joins Guardians

News and Notes for Thursday, February 20th, 2025

The Cleveland Guardians have officially signed LHP John Means. The rumor mill first reported hints about this signing on Sunday. More information about Means can be read here. To make room on the 40-man roster, David Fry was sent to the 60-day IL. Means will join the club in Arizona.

Additionally, Sam Hentges was added to the 60-day IL to make room on the 40-man roster for Jakob Junis.

Acting beat reporter Anthony Castrovince is churning out Spring Training content. One of his most recent articles joins Chase DeLauter to discuss what this Spring Training means to him and how it differs from last spring.

Now that general sports media is ramping up to baseball’s start, conversation is turning towards the Guardians rotation. On field reporter Andre Knott joined Cleveland.com to discuss the return of Shane Bieber. Dre is giving a confident guess of June 10th. Which would be absolutely amazing for Bieber to return that early in the season. This isn’t the only news of pitching we’re already hearing out of Spring Training. Zack Meisel revealed on his podcast that Triston McKenzie reached 95mph in a live bullpen session on Sunday.

CleGuardians.tv will broadcast 5 spring training games for FREE. All that is required is to register at CleGuardians.tv. Saturday’s opening game against the Reds is included.

Hope springs eternal and I am so ready for games to start.