On talent and experience, Shane Bieber is the best pitcher on the Cleveland Guardians roster.
He is a former Cy Young award winner still in his prime.
However, he will be recovering from Tommy John surgery performed in April and will miss the first half of the 2025 at the very least.
That makes young starter Tanner Bibee the most important hurler for the Guardians in 2025.
Bibee is young, good, and fully healthy, which makes him the prime candidate to lead the rotation in that crucial first half without Bieber.
Joel Reuter of Bleacher Report identified candidates on all teams to make their first All-Star Game.
The Guardians are young and good enough to have several candidates, but Bibee is very clearly the best bet to play the Midsummer Classic for the first time in his career this year.
“Tanner Bibee was an anchor atop an injury-plagued Cleveland Guardians rotation in 2024, leading the team in starts (31), innings pitched (173.2) and strikeouts (187) while serving as the ace of the staff in the postseason. The 25-year-old has a 3.25 ERA and 328 strikeouts in 315.2 innings during his first two seasons in the majors, finishing runner-up in 2023 AL Rookie of the Year voting before logging better peripheral numbers in his follow-up this past season,” he wrote.
Bibee has shown the ability to lead the Guardians pitching staff: he was the de facto ace for almost the entire 2024 campaign and will have the same responsibility this year.
He has the run-prevention skills and bat-missing ability to keep dominating and becoming more of a known commodity league-wide.
Those who aren’t yet familiar with his game and talent will probably see him in the All-Star Game in 2025.
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