The Cleveland Guardians have named their Opening Day starter.<\/p>\n
The club announced Friday that Tanner Bibee will be on the mound for the Guardians to open the season. <\/p>\n
The 27-year-old is 1-2 with a 4.42 ERA in 18.1 IP with 16 strikeouts this spring, and is coming off a strong end to his 2025 campaign, where he took a win in three of his four final starts in the regular season. That included a complete game viceroy on Sept. 12 vs. the White Sox. Bibee would stay hot entering the postseason, pitching in Game 2 of the ALDS vs the Detroit Tigers, helping lead Cleveland to their only win of the series.<\/p>\n
Bibee was supposed to have the same honor to open last season, but was scratched from that game, dealing with acute gastroenteritis. <\/p>\n
Now he has another chance, and that opportunity is not lost on him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fact that you get the second [chance to start], it’s kind of like a vote of confidence, and it’s a really nice thing to just have the opportunity again to go out there and lead us on Opening Night,\u201d Bibee told media in Goodyear, AZ, on Friday. \u201cRegardless of whether I was going to throw the first game or the fifth game\u2026 the adrenaline was going to be just as high.”<\/p>\n
Bibee and the Guardians open the 2026 regular season in Seattle against the Mariners on Thursday, March 26, at 10:10 P.M. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Guardians have named their Opening Day starter. The club announced Friday that Tanner Bibee will be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,135,51,2565,538,4,24271,24272,777],"class_list":{"0":"post-634350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-guardians","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-cleveland-guardians","11":"tag-clevelandguardians","12":"tag-guardians","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-news5cleveland","15":"tag-northeast-ohio-news","16":"tag-tanner-bibee"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116263987668698130","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}