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Cleveland Guardians' Ace Excites Fans with Improvements Made at Driveline

Cleveland Guardians' ace Shane Bieber is getting ready for the season by training at Driveline Baseball, and he's got fans excited by the velocity and movement gains he's made.

Brady Farkas

Cleveland Guardians' Ace Excites Fans with Improvements Made at Driveline
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Cleveland Guardians' ace Shane Bieber had fans excited on Saturday when a video was posted showing his offseason improvement. Bieber has been working out at Driveline, the training center, which is now the offseason home of several big leaguers.

From Chris Langin of Driveline:

Shane Bieber (@ShaneBieber19) wrapped up his off-season @DrivelineBB with a bang! 

Average 93.2 MPH 

10 heaters > 93 MPH, surpassing his entire 2023 (8). 

Curveball revived Session: 83.7 MPH | 14" VB 

2020: 83.6 MPH | 14" VB 

Looks like he's back in business... 

To see Bieber's velocity up and his curveball back to 2020 levels is extremely encouraging for Guardians fans and new manager Stephen Vogt. There was talk of trading Bieber this offseason, but thus far, that hasn't happened and he appears set to anchor the Guardians rotation again.

Bieber, 28, won the Cy Young in that 2020 season, but is coming off a year in which he went 6-6 for the Guardians - and battled injury. He had a 3.80 ERA. 

Lifetime, he's 60-32 with a 3.27, so getting him back to that level will be paramount for Cleveland if it wants to contend again in the American League Central.

Cleveland finished third in the Central a season ago, but it had a rotation that was ravaged by injury. If Bieber can stay healthy, with Tristan McKenzie, then Vogt's team should still have a solid rotation. The main question will be if they can find enough offense to compete in the improving division.

Spring training begins next week.

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BRADY FARKAS

Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady. 

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