7 former Guardians players who will have chance to win the 2025 World Series

Earlier this postseason, we highlighted the stunning number of former Cleveland Guardians who were playing for teams in the postseason field. 

And while we’re down to just four teams remaining, there are still plenty of players remaining who have connections to the Guardians. In fact, there’s a former Guardians playing for every team remaining in the field, which means that at least one Cleveland alumna will win the World Series this year.

Here’s a look at the former Guardians remaining in the postseason field. 

These former Guardians will get a chance to win the World Series

Toronto Blue Jays
Shane Bieber, Ernie Clement, Andres Gimenez and Myles Straw

The Blue Jays have an abundance of former Guardians on their roster and they showed out this postseason on Toronto’s run toward the ALCS. 

Clement hit .643 with a home run in four games against the Yankees, while Giménez went 4-for-15 with a double and two RBI. Straw only got five at-bats against the Yankees, but recorded two hits and a RBI. 

That said, they combined to go 0-for-7 against the Mariners in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series. Bieber also struggled in his postseason debut for the Blue Jays, but he’ll get a chance at redemption in Game 3 of the ALCS. 

Seattle Mariners
Josh Naylor 

While the Mariners only have one former Guardian on their roster, it’s one of significance in the form of Naylor. 

He helped power the Mariners to the postseason by hitting .299 with nine home runs in 54 games after they acquired him at the trade deadline, though he’s had a bit of a quiet postseason. He had one big day against the Tigers in the ALDS, but has gone hitless in four of the Mariners’ six postseason games. 

But he can get hot in a hurry in the postseason, as every Guardians fan should know. 

Milwaukee Brewers
Jake Bauers 

While the Brewers haven’t officially announced their postseason roster for the NLCS, Bauers is a lock to be on it. 

This year was the first full-season where he finished with a positive bWAR mark for the first time in his career. He ended up playing in two games for the Brewers in the NLDS, where he went 2-for-4 with a home run and a walk. 

Bauers will likely never end up becoming the kind of player the Guardians were expecting when they acquired him in a trade with the Rays, but he’s quietly becoming a valuable platoon player for Milwaukee.

Almost all of Bauers’ at-bats this year came against right-handed pitching, so he should be in the lineup, so he could come off the bench later today after Blake Snell leaves the game. He could also be in Milwaukee’s starting lineup in Game 2 against the right-handed Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

Los Angeles Dodgers
Alex Call 

The Dodgers acquired Call at the trade deadline in the hopes that he’d provide value as a platoon bat in the outfield, and he’s done exactly that; he hit .286 against left-handed pitching this year and ranked in the 63rd percentile in Outs Above Average in the field.

Call’s appeared in three games with the Dodgers this postseason and has gone 3-for-3 while exclusively facing off against left-handed pitching. 

Call had a cup of coffee with the Guardians in 2022 before Cleveland waived him ahead of the trade deadline, where he landed in Washington. Although the Nationals weren’t very good during Call’s tenure there, he was able to get plenty of playing time, which led to Los Angeles acquiring him. 

Call doesn’t have the same background with the Guardians as the other names on this list, but he still has a chance to become a household name since he’s playing for arguably the best team remaining in the postseason field.