Cleveland Guardians

Every MLB player the encyclopedia attributes to the Cleveland Guardiansfrom profile season records, grouped by position, first season to last. Coverage follows the encyclopedia’s per-era source depth.

Every position room Cleveland Guardians has passed down, steadiest first. The DH room is their most stable — 5 holders across 42 years, a new one every 8.4 on average.

1. DH5 holders · 4 handoffs · 1977–2018 · one every 8.4y
   Andre Thornton1977–1987→Victor Martinez2002–2009→Travis Hafner2003–2012→Michael Brantley2009–2018→Edwin Encarnación2017–2018
2. 3B20 holders · 19 handoffs · 1901–2026 · one every 6.3y
   Bill Bradley1901–1910→Joe Evans1915–1922→Larry Gardner1919–1924→Rube Lutzke1923–1927→Willie Kamm1931–1935→Ken Keltner1937–1949→Al Rosen1947–1956→Ray Boone1948–1953→Bubba Phillips1960–1962→Max Alvis1962–1969→Graig Nettles1970–1972→Buddy Bell1972–1978→Toby Harrah1979–1983→Brook Jacoby1984–1992→Travis Fryman1998–2002→Russell Branyan1998–2010→Casey Blake2003–2008→Lonnie Chisenhall2011–2018→José Ramírez2013–2026→Amed Rosario2021–2023
3. 1B24 holders · 23 handoffs · 1902–2025 · one every 5.2y
   Charlie Hickman1902–1908→George Stovall1904–1911→Doc Johnston1912–1921→George Burns1920–1928→Lew Fonseca1927–1931→Ed Morgan1928–1933→Hal Trosky Sr.1933–1941→Les Fleming1941–1947→Eddie Robinson1942–1957→Mickey Rocco1943–1946→Luke Easter1949–1954→Mickey Vernon1949–1958→Vic Power1958–1961→Fred Whitfield1963–1967→Tony Horton1967–1970→Chris Chambliss1971–1974→Mike Hargrove1979–1985→Pat Tabler1983–1988→Jim Thome1991–2011→Paul Sorrento1992–1995→Ben Broussard2002–2006→Ryan Garko2005–2009→Carlos Santana2010–2025→Josh Naylor2020–2024
4. 2B23 holders · 22 handoffs · 1902–2019 · one every 5.1y
   Nap Lajoie1902–1914→Bill Wambsganss1914–1923→Johnny Hodapp1925–1932→Odell Hale1931–1940→Bill Cissell1932–1933→Roy Hughes1935–1937→Ray Mack1938–1946→Joe Gordon1947–1950→Bobby Avila1949–1958→Billy Moran1958–1965→Chico Salmon1964–1968→Eddie Leon1968–1972→Jack Brohamer1972–1980→Duane Kuiper1974–1981→Jorge Orta1980–1981→Alan Bannister1980–1983→Tony Bernazard1984–1987→Jerry Browne1989–1991→Carlos Baerga1990–1999→Mark Lewis1991–2001→Roberto Alomar1999–2001→Ronnie Belliard2004–2006→Jason Kipnis2011–2019
5. SS25 holders · 24 handoffs · 1904–2024 · one every 4.8y
   Terry Turner1904–1918→Ivy Olson1911–1914→Ray Chapman1912–1920→Joe Sewell1920–1930→Johnny Burnett1927–1934→Bill Knickerbocker1933–1936→Lyn Lary1937–1939→Lou Boudreau1938–1950→George Strickland1952–1960→Chico Carrasquel1956–1958→Woodie Held1958–1964→Dick Howser1963–1966→Larry Brown1963–1971→Frank Duffy1972–1977→Larvell Blanks1976–1978→Tom Veryzer1978–1981→Julio Franco1983–1997→Felix Fermin1989–1993→José Hernández1992–2005→Omar Vizquel1994–2004→John McDonald1999–2013→Jhonny Peralta2003–2010→Asdrúbal Cabrera2007–2014→Francisco Lindor2015–2020→Andrés Giménez2021–2024
6. C27 holders · 26 handoffs · 1902–2026 · one every 4.6y
   Harry Bemis1902–1910→Nig Clarke1905–1910→Ted Easterly1909–1912→Steve O'Neill1911–1923→Luke Sewell1921–1939→Glenn Myatt1923–1935→Frankie Pytlak1932–1940→Rollie Hemsley1938–1941→Jim Hegan1941–1957→Joe Tipton1948–1953→Hank Foiles1953–1960→Russ Nixon1957–1960→John Romano1960–1964→Joe Azcue1963–1969→Duke Sims1964–1970→Ray Fosse1967–1977→Gary Alexander1978–1980→Ron Hassey1978–1984→Chris Bando1981–1988→Andy Allanson1986–1989→Sandy Alomar Jr.1990–2000→Eddie Taubensee1991–2001→Einar Díaz1996–2002→Kelly Shoppach2006–2013→Yan Gomes2013–2018→Roberto Pérez2014–2021→Bo Naylor2022–2026

+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.