Lively, who led the Guards with 13 wins this past season, finished just above the cutoff with a career total of 2 years and 133 days of major league service time.

Cobb was replaced on the roster by Ben Lively, a 32-year-old right-hander who was Cleveland’s winningest pitcher this season at 13-10 with a 3.81 ERA in 29 starts. “We don’t know what we ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Pitcher Alex Cobb was dropped from Cleveland's American League Championship Series roster on Tuesday after he got hurt yet again in the opener, leaving the Guardians in search of ...