Cleveland Guardians

126 seasons · 1901–2026 · 10,009–9,511 (.513) · 6 pennants · 2 World Series

Season by season

126 seasons, newest first. The year links to that season across all of baseball.

Year	Lg	Div	W	L	W–L%	Finish	R	RA	Result
2026	AL	—	69	68	.504	—	—	—
2025	AL	C	88	74	.543	1st	643	649	Division
2024	AL	C	92	69	.571	1st	708	621	Division
2023	AL	C	76	86	.469	3rd	662	697
2022	AL	C	92	70	.568	1st	698	634	Division
2021	AL	C	80	82	.494	2nd	717	727
2020	AL	C	35	25	.583	2nd	248	209	Wild card
2019	AL	C	93	69	.574	2nd	769	657
2018	AL	C	91	71	.562	1st	818	648	Division
2017	AL	C	102	60	.630	1st	818	564	Division
2016	AL	C	94	67	.584	1st	777	676	Pennant
2015	AL	C	81	80	.503	3rd	669	640
2014	AL	C	85	77	.525	3rd	669	653
2013	AL	C	92	70	.568	2nd	745	662	Wild card
2012	AL	C	68	94	.420	4th	667	845
2011	AL	C	80	82	.494	2nd	704	760
2010	AL	C	69	93	.426	4th	646	752
2009	AL	C	65	97	.401	4th	773	865
2008	AL	C	81	81	.500	3rd	805	761
2007	AL	C	96	66	.593	1st	811	704	Division
2006	AL	C	78	84	.481	4th	870	782
2005	AL	C	93	69	.574	2nd	790	642
2004	AL	C	80	82	.494	3rd	858	857
2003	AL	C	68	94	.420	4th	699	778
2002	AL	C	74	88	.457	3rd	739	837
2001	AL	C	91	71	.562	1st	897	821	Division
2000	AL	C	90	72	.556	2nd	950	816
1999	AL	C	97	65	.599	1st	1009	860	Division
1998	AL	C	89	73	.549	1st	850	779	Division
1997	AL	C	86	75	.534	1st	868	815	Pennant
1996	AL	C	99	62	.615	1st	952	769	Division
1995	AL	C	100	44	.694	1st	840	607	Pennant
1994	AL	C	66	47	.584	2nd	679	562
1993	AL	E	76	86	.469	6th	790	813
1992	AL	E	76	86	.469	4th	674	746
1991	AL	E	57	105	.352	7th	576	759
1990	AL	E	77	85	.475	4th	732	737
1989	AL	E	73	89	.451	6th	604	654
1988	AL	E	78	84	.481	6th	666	731
1987	AL	E	61	101	.377	7th	742	957
1986	AL	E	84	78	.519	5th	831	841
1985	AL	E	60	102	.370	7th	729	861
1984	AL	E	75	87	.463	6th	761	766
1983	AL	E	70	92	.432	7th	704	785
1982	AL	E	78	84	.481	6th	683	748
1981	AL	E	52	51	.505	6th	431	442
1980	AL	E	79	81	.494	6th	738	807
1979	AL	E	81	80	.503	6th	760	805
1978	AL	E	69	90	.434	6th	639	694
1977	AL	E	71	90	.441	5th	676	739
1976	AL	E	81	78	.509	4th	615	615
1975	AL	E	79	80	.497	4th	688	703
1974	AL	E	77	85	.475	4th	662	694
1973	AL	E	71	91	.438	6th	680	826
1972	AL	E	72	84	.462	5th	472	519
1971	AL	E	60	102	.370	6th	543	747
1970	AL	E	76	86	.469	5th	649	675
1969	AL	E	62	99	.385	6th	573	717
1968	AL	—	86	75	.534	3rd	516	504
1967	AL	—	75	87	.463	8th	559	613
1966	AL	—	81	81	.500	5th	574	586
1965	AL	—	87	75	.537	5th	663	613
1964	AL	—	79	83	.488	6th	689	693
1963	AL	—	79	83	.488	5th	635	702
1962	AL	—	80	82	.494	6th	682	745
1961	AL	—	78	83	.484	5th	737	752
1960	AL	—	76	78	.494	4th	667	693
1959	AL	—	89	65	.578	2nd	745	646
1958	AL	—	77	76	.503	4th	694	635
1957	AL	—	76	77	.497	6th	682	722
1956	AL	—	88	66	.571	2nd	712	581
1955	AL	—	93	61	.604	2nd	698	601
1954	AL	—	111	43	.721	1st	746	504	Pennant
1953	AL	—	92	62	.597	2nd	770	627
1952	AL	—	93	61	.604	2nd	763	606
1951	AL	—	93	61	.604	2nd	696	594
1950	AL	—	92	62	.597	4th	806	654
1949	AL	—	89	65	.578	3rd	675	574
1948	AL	—	97	58	.626	1st	840	568	World Series
1947	AL	—	80	74	.519	4th	687	588
1946	AL	—	68	86	.442	6th	537	638
1945	AL	—	73	72	.503	5th	557	548
1944	AL	—	72	82	.468	5th	643	677
1943	AL	—	82	71	.536	3rd	600	577
1942	AL	—	75	79	.487	4th	590	659
1941	AL	—	75	79	.487	4th	677	668
1940	AL	—	89	65	.578	2nd	710	637
1939	AL	—	87	67	.565	3rd	797	700
1938	AL	—	86	66	.566	3rd	847	782
1937	AL	—	83	71	.539	4th	817	768
1936	AL	—	80	74	.519	5th	921	862
1935	AL	—	82	71	.536	3rd	776	739
1934	AL	—	85	69	.552	3rd	814	763
1933	AL	—	75	76	.497	4th	654	669
1932	AL	—	87	65	.572	4th	845	747
1931	AL	—	78	76	.506	4th	885	833
1930	AL	—	81	73	.526	4th	890	915
1929	AL	—	81	71	.533	3rd	717	736
1928	AL	—	62	92	.403	7th	674	830
1927	AL	—	66	87	.431	6th	668	766
1926	AL	—	88	66	.571	2nd	738	612
1925	AL	—	70	84	.455	6th	782	817
1924	AL	—	67	86	.438	6th	755	814
1923	AL	—	82	71	.536	3rd	888	746
1922	AL	—	78	76	.506	4th	768	817
1921	AL	—	94	60	.610	2nd	925	712
1920	AL	—	98	56	.636	1st	857	642	World Series
1919	AL	—	84	55	.604	2nd	636	537
1918	AL	—	73	54	.575	2nd	504	447
1917	AL	—	88	66	.571	3rd	584	543
1916	AL	—	77	77	.500	6th	630	602
1915	AL	—	57	95	.375	7th	539	670
1914	AL	—	51	102	.333	8th	538	709
1913	AL	—	86	66	.566	3rd	633	536
1912	AL	—	75	78	.490	5th	677	681
1911	AL	—	80	73	.523	3rd	691	712
1910	AL	—	71	81	.467	5th	548	657
1909	AL	—	71	82	.464	6th	493	532
1908	AL	—	90	64	.584	2nd	569	459
1907	AL	—	85	67	.559	4th	531	525
1906	AL	—	89	64	.582	3rd	663	481
1905	AL	—	76	78	.494	5th	564	587
1904	AL	—	86	65	.570	4th	647	482
1903	AL	—	77	63	.550	3rd	639	579
1902	AL	—	69	67	.507	5th	686	667
1901	AL	—	54	82	.397	7th	666	831

A dash is a value the source has not published — the season still being played has no final run totals. An empty result column means the club did not win any of those things that year, except in 1994, when a strike ended the season before the postseason, and in a season still under way — then there was nothing to win.

Career leaders with this club

Top 20 by wins above replacement accumulated with the Cleveland Guardians, and the same for pitchers. Seasons where a player was mostly somewhere else are not counted here.

Batting20 players

Player	Years	WAR	G	PA	H	HR	RBI	AVG
Tris Speaker	1916–1926	100.3	1,519	6,628	1,965	73	884	.354
Nap Lajoie	1902–1914	96.9	1,615	6,700	2,048	33	920	.339
Earl Averill	1929–1938	67.9	1,485	6,647	1,888	225	1,077	.323
Lou Boudreau	1938–1950	64.5	1,560	6,707	1,706	63	740	.296
Joe Sewell	1920–1930	52.3	1,513	6,576	1,800	30	869	.320
Jim Thome	1991–2002	50.9	1,377	5,723	1,332	334	927	.287
Larry Doby	1948–1958	50.8	1,206	5,049	1,229	215	774	.287
Jose Ramirez	2013–2026	50.6	1,712	7,203	1,761	296	997	.277
Ray Chapman	1912–1920	44.4	1,051	4,590	1,053	17	364	.278
Ken Keltner	1937–1949	42.6	1,513	6,280	1,561	163	850	.276
Shoeless Joe Jackson	1910–1915	38.3	719	3,045	980	26	389	.368
Al Rosen	1947–1956	37.3	1,044	4,374	1,063	192	717	.285
Kenny Lofton	1992–2001	36.7	1,224	5,570	1,463	87	503	.300
Hal Trosky	1933–1941	35.2	1,124	4,853	1,365	216	911	.313
Elmer Flick	1902–1910	34.9	946	4,068	1,069	19	379	.299
Albert Belle	1989–1996	34.8	913	3,922	1,014	242	751	.295
Travis Hafner	2003–2012	34.2	1,078	4,406	1,039	200	688	.278
Carlos Santana	2010–2025	33.8	1,458	6,197	1,288	227	764	.248
Manny Ramirez	1993–2000	33.1	967	4,095	1,086	236	804	.313
Jeff Heath	1936–1945	31.9	957	3,875	1,040	122	619	.298

Pitching20 players

Player	Years	WAR	G	W	L	SV	IP	SO	ERA
Bob Feller	1936–1956	57.6	570	266	162	21	3827.0	2,581	3.25
Addie Joss	1902–1910	51.6	286	160	97	5	2327.0	920	1.89
Stan Coveleski	1916–1924	44.4	360	172	123	20	2502.3	856	2.80
Mel Harder	1928–1947	40.6	582	223	186	23	3426.3	1,160	3.80
Mike Garcia	1948–1959	36.7	397	142	96	21	2138.0	1,095	3.24
Sam McDowell	1961–1971	36.2	336	122	109	11	2109.7	2,159	2.99
Early Wynn	1949–1963	32.0	343	164	102	10	2286.7	1,277	3.24
George Uhle	1919–1936	31.6	357	147	119	15	2200.3	763	3.92
Bob Lemon	1946–1958	30.3	460	207	128	22	2850.0	1,277	3.23
Corey Kluber	2011–2019	28.8	208	98	58	0	1341.7	1,461	3.16
Willis Hudlin	1926–1939	28.5	471	155	150	31	2534.0	654	4.33
Guy Morton	1914–1924	27.0	317	98	88	6	1629.7	830	3.13
Willie Mitchell	1909–1915	23.9	207	62	71	3	1257.7	751	2.81
Bill Bernhard	1902–1907	23.5	147	78	55	1	1184.0	415	2.44
Jim Bagby	1916–1922	23.0	290	122	85	26	1735.7	424	3.02
CC Sabathia	2001–2007	22.2	219	100	63	0	1406.3	1,142	3.83
Earl Moore	1901–1906	21.8	158	81	67	1	1318.3	609	2.55
Charles Nagy	1990–2002	21.0	313	129	103	0	1942.3	1,235	4.51
Carlos Carrasco	2009–2024	20.3	263	91	83	2	1346.0	1,394	3.91
Shane Bieber	2018–2024	19.2	136	62	32	0	843.0	958	3.22

Best single seasons

The highest wins above replacement any Cleveland Guardians player has put up in one year.

BattingHR · RBI · AVG

1	Nap Lajoie1910 · 4 HR · 76 RBI · .383	12.4
2	Tris Speaker1916 · 2 HR · 79 RBI · .386	12.3
3	Tris Speaker1917 · 2 HR · 60 RBI · .352	11.8
4	Nap Lajoie1906 · 0 HR · 91 RBI · .355	11.7
5	Tris Speaker1920 · 8 HR · 107 RBI · .388	11.6
6	Nap Lajoie1904 · 5 HR · 102 RBI · .376	11.5
7	Ray Chapman1917 · 2 HR · 36 RBI · .302	11.2
8	Al Rosen1953 · 43 HR · 145 RBI · .336	10.8
9	Tris Speaker1923 · 17 HR · 130 RBI · .380	10.7
10	Lou Boudreau1948 · 18 HR · 106 RBI · .355	10.6

PitchingW · SO · ERA

1	Bob Feller1946 · 26 W · 348 SO · 2.18	9.4
2	Addie Joss1908 · 24 W · 130 SO · 1.16	8.3
3	Sam McDowell1969 · 18 W · 279 SO · 2.94	7.6
4	Sam McDowell1965 · 17 W · 325 SO · 2.18	7.4
5	Addie Joss1907 · 27 W · 127 SO · 1.83	7.4
6	Bob Feller1940 · 27 W · 261 SO · 2.61	7.2
7	Gaylord Perry1972 · 24 W · 234 SO · 1.92	6.9
8	Bill Bernhard1904 · 23 W · 137 SO · 2.13	6.8
9	Addie Joss1903 · 18 W · 120 SO · 2.19	6.8
10	Stan Coveleski1920 · 24 W · 133 SO · 2.49	6.5

Names this club has played under

Name	Years	Seasons
Cleveland Blues	1901	1
Cleveland Bronchos	1902	1
Cleveland Naps	1903–1914	12
Cleveland Indians	1915–2021	107
Cleveland Guardians	2022–2026	5

How this page is built

Every row below is the club's own season, 1901 to 2026. That is 126 of them, 10,009–9,511 in all, a winning percentage of .513. 2 World Series — 1920, 1948.

Wins and losses on this page come straight from the source; the player tables do not. A season line in this database carries one club, the one where the player took the most plate appearances — or, for a pitcher, recorded the most outs — that year. So a player traded in July is credited to one side of the trade and not the other, and the career totals below are the club he mostly played for rather than a strict split. Wins above replacement is worked out per season here, and a season cannot be cut in half without recomputing it on a different basis, which would leave two numbers on this site that disagree. One basis, stated, is the honest version of that trade-off.

This club has played under 5 names. It began as the Cleveland Blues in 1901 and is the Cleveland Guardians now. The names, and the years each one covers, are listed further down. Relocations and renamings are kept together because the franchise is the thing that continued, which is also how the record books treat it.

What the columns mean, and where the franchise begins

Finishing position means a different thing before and after divisions arrived in 1969. Also: why the club's history starts in 1901 here, and what the run columns are for.

The franchise boundary is the source database's, not ours. Each season carries a franchise identifier, and that identifier is what groups the rows on this page. It merges moves and renamings — Brooklyn and Los Angeles are one club under it — and it also keeps some things apart that share a city and a nickname: the National Association clubs of 1871 to 1875 are separate franchises from the National League clubs that followed them in the same towns. We could have merged those by hand, and then this page would carry a career record that no published source agrees with. Following the identifier means the totals here can be checked against somebody else's.

The best and worst of it: 1954 and 1991. The 1954 club went 111–43 (.721); the 1991 club went 57–105 (.352). Schedules were not always the same length — a nineteenth-century season could be seventy games and 2020 was sixty — so read the percentage rather than the win column when the two are far apart in time.

Finishing position means different things in different eras. Before 1969 there were no divisions, so the finish column is the club's place in the whole league. From 1969 it is the place within a division, which is a smaller field, and a third place in a six-team division is not the same achievement as a third place in a ten-team league. The division column says which one applies. Nothing on this page is postseason record: the wins and losses are regular season only, and the World Series, pennant and division marks in the result column say what the club went on to win, not how it did once it got there.

Runs scored and runs allowed are here because they explain the record. A club that wins more games than its run difference suggests has usually won a lot of close ones, and that tends not to repeat. The two columns are the cheapest way to see whether a season was as good as its win total, and they are the input to most of the modern estimates of how many games a team should have won. They are blank for the season still being played where the source has not published them yet.

Data for 1871 to 2025: Lahman Baseball Database 2025, compiled by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported. Negro Leagues data licensed from Seamheads.com and included under SABR major-league recommendations (2021-02-11, 2024-06-03). This page groups the source database's team seasons by its franchise identifier and adds up the Cleveland Guardians careers of the players on the season pages. — the WAR columns are computed here — and they are published under the same CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence, as ShareAlike requires. That database is published once a season is complete, so the 2026 figures on this site come from a different place: the MLB Stats API, whose notice reads “Copyright 2026 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Use of any content on this page acknowledges agreement to the terms posted here http://gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt”. Those numbers are MLB Advanced Media, L.P.’s, not SABR (Society for American Baseball Research)’s, and they carry that notice rather than the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence above. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Major League Baseball or any of its clubs.