{"id":101705,"date":"2025-06-06T18:47:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T22:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=101705"},"modified":"2025-06-06T18:47:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T22:47:22","slug":"guardians-shane-bieber-scratched-from-rehab-start-elbow-soreness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/06\/06\/guardians-shane-bieber-scratched-from-rehab-start-elbow-soreness\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Bieber Scratched From Rehab Start With Elbow Soreness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Guardians&#8217; starting rotation ran into more bad news on Friday. The team <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZackMeisel\/status\/1930736718644125985\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scratched<\/a> ace Shane Bieber from a rehab start after dealing with elbow soreness. After undergoing Tommy John surgery last year, the former American League Cy Young Award winner seemed to be on his way back to the team, but has suffered a setback after making one rehab start. The team will <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZackMeisel\/status\/1931072359315972422\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shut him down<\/a> until the middle of next week and he will visit the doctor who performed his surgery for re-evaluation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Shane Bieber will be shut down from throwing until the middle of next week (one week from when soreness surfaced). He\u2019ll be re-checked at that point to determine his readiness to continue his progression. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KjorWvWhIT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/KjorWvWhIT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zack Meisel (@ZackMeisel) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZackMeisel\/status\/1931072359315972422?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Shane Bieber Scratched from Start After Dealing with Elbow Soreness<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/12\/06\/shane-bieber-re-signs-guardians\/\" target=\"_self\">Bieber<\/a>, 30, underwent Tommy John surgery last year after making two starts and missed the rest of his contract year. The Guardians opted to bring him back on a two-year, $26 million deal this offseason in hopes that he would return sometime around July.<\/p>\n<p>Bieber made a rehab start in the Florida Complex League on May 31st, only throwing 2 1\/3 innings. While throwing a bullpen in preparation for his next rehab start with Double-A Akron, the soreness began to arise. He was seemingly close to making his way back to the club&#8217;s rotation, but Bieber will be shut down until the middle of next week, and his return will be pushed back.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_101712\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101712\" style=\"width: 418px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-101712\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/USATSI_26350808_168400885_lowres-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/USATSI_26350808_168400885_lowres-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/USATSI_26350808_168400885_lowres-1024x721.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/USATSI_26350808_168400885_lowres-768x541.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/USATSI_26350808_168400885_lowres.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guardians pitcher Shane Bieber smiles as he takes the mound during the first inning of a rehab start for the Akron RubberDucks on Sept. 12, 2023, at Canal Park. (Credit: \u00a9 Jeff Lange \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This news marks more bad news for the Guardians&#8217; pitching staff, as they recently lost Ben Lively to Tommy John surgery as well. With Lively and Bieber out, their rotation will continue to feature the likes of Tanner Bibee, Gavin Williams, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/12\/18\/guardians-should-optimize-new-starter-luis-ortiz\/\" target=\"_self\">Luis Ortiz<\/a>, Logan Allen, and Slade Cecconi.<\/p>\n<p>The club&#8217;s rotation is improving month by month, and much of that is due to Ortiz&#8217;s performance. The right-hander owns a 2.28 ERA in his last five starts, recently shutting out the New York Yankees in the Bronx. Bibee and Williams have also shown flashes of dominance this year, so the rotation should be just fine even if Bieber misses added time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: \u00a9 Ken Blaze-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Guardians&#8217; starting rotation ran into more bad news on Friday. The team scratched ace Shane Bieber from a rehab start after dealing with elbow soreness. After undergoing Tommy John surgery last year, the former American League Cy Young Award winner seemed to be on his way back to the team, but has suffered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5469,"featured_media":101711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1071,35],"tags":[3736,3623,6213,2094,3598,6375],"class_list":["post-101705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guardians","category-mlb","category-news","tag-gavin-williams","tag-logan-allen","tag-luis-ortiz","tag-shane-bieber","tag-slade-cecconi","tag-tanner-bibee"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101705"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101714,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101705\/revisions\/101714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}