2026 Season · KC Roster
Progressive Field, Cleveland, OH — opened 1994 · 34,830 seats. 2× champions · last 1948.
Every MLB player the encyclopedia attributes to the Cleveland Guardians from profile season records, grouped by position, first season to last. Coverage follows the encyclopedia’s per-era source depth.
MLB players who spent their entire encyclopedia-attributed career with the Cleveland Guardians — ranked by seasons of service. Tenure is the span the corpus attributes.
MLB players who wore the Cleveland Guardians crest along the way but played for three or more franchises in all — the well-traveled careers this club was one chapter of. The count is distinct canonical franchises.
Every position room Cleveland Guardians has passed down, steadiest first. The 2B room is their most stable — 9 holders across 118 years, a new one every 7.7 on average.
Four franchise-defining careers: VAL weighted by attributed tenure share, with a bounded bump for verified Hall of Fame and recorded award evidence.
545 player-season slots overlap another club's recorded span and are credited to neither (16.6% of considered span evidence).
Monument Timeline — who held it, season by season
1901–2026 · 2 handoffs
The holder in a season is the player with the most accumulated era-adjusted value (VAL) across attributed franchise seasons through that year — whole seasons only, never a depth-chart claim. A claim needs 3+ attributed seasons; unsettled through 1902. Relocated eras carry forward with the franchise.
Most prominent 8 of 950 shown · all 950 P →
Most prominent 8 of 182 shown · all 182 C →
Most prominent 8 of 120 shown · all 120 1B →
Most prominent 8 of 127 shown · all 127 2B →
Most prominent 8 of 114 shown · all 114 3B →
Most prominent 8 of 114 shown · all 114 SS →
Most prominent 8 of 406 shown · all 406 OF →
Most prominent 8 of 21 shown · all 21 DH →
Stadium, market-population, title and handle data are curated public facts (Wikipedia/Census/official league facts). Fan Interest, Barometer and reach tier are transparently derived from those facts — weighted (market 0.4, venue 0.2, titles 0.25, heritage 0.15), min-max within MLB — derived structural proxy, not a survey. No fan survey, sentiment scrape, or follower count is used.
+2 more rooms with a shorter average hold.
Room tenures, not starting jobs — the corpus has no per-season depth chart, so holders can overlap (a successor often arrives before his predecessor leaves) and the measure is how often the room changed hands. A holder is a player who produced real value for this club during his years here, which is what separates holding the room from being on the roster. Detected from per-season VAL (1901–2026 here; league coverage is complete from 1999) — rooms the corpus cannot value are not shown.
+351 more one-club men with the franchise.
+1,289 more well-traveled players who wore the crest.
145 seasons — roster, team totals and best players by VAL for each.
Best league-relative tenures in Cleveland Guardians history — OPS+ / ERA+ vs each season's own league (100 = average), counting only seasons with the club. Park-unadjusted.
Hitters · OPS+
Pitchers · ERA+