Ben Lively CLE SP R

Born: 03/05/1992 Age: 33

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On MLB 40-man: YES
Acquired: Free Agent (CIN) Dec'23

Thu 3/13	Fri 3/14	Sat 3/15
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Positions
SP

All Leagues
Average $3.13 Median $3.00
FanGraphs Points
Average $1.67 Median $1.00

All Leagues
Average $1.50 Median $1.00
FanGraphs Points
Average $1.80 Median $1.00

Roster%
9.48%
Change
7Day 1.22%
30Day 2.45%

March 11, 2025 8:18 AM : Lively scattered three hits and one walk while striking out three over four scoreless innings in Monday's Cactus League start against the Royals.
Analysis: Lively strengthened his case for a spot in the rotation during his third Cactus League start against a lineup with several Kansas City regulars. He's allowed just one run over nine spring innings. The right-hander won't blow away many hitters, but he doesn't hurt himself with walks. The key will be locating and preventing the long ball. He's penciled in as one of the five members of the rotation in the latest roster projection offered by Mandy Bell and Tim Stebbins of MLB.com.

Year	Team	G	GS	IP	K	H	BB	HBP	HR	P/IP	Pts
2017	PHI	15	15	88.2	52	90	24	8	13	3.05	270.23
2018	PHI	5	5	23.2	22	34	10	3	4	1.8	42.53
2018	KCR	5	0	6.2	5	7	5	0	0	3.92	26.13
2019	KCR	1	0	1.0	1	3	0	0	1	-10.7	-10.70
2023	CIN	19	12	88.2	79	96	25	3	20	2.65	234.53
2024	CLE	29	29	151.0	118	139	49	5	23	3.62	547.10

Year	Team	G	GS	IP	SV	HLD	K	H	BB	HBP	HR	P/IP	Pts
2013	CIN (R)	12	12	37.0	0	0	49	21	12	1	0	7.52	278.20
2013	CIN (A)	1	1	4.0	0	0	7	2	1	0	0	8.85	35.40
2014	CIN (A+)	13	13	79.0	0	0	95	57	16	1	6	6.35	501.60
2014	CIN (AA)	13	13	72.0	0	0	76	60	36	4	7	4.48	322.70
2015	PHI (AA)	25	25	143.2	0	0	111	160	45	7	14	3.77	540.94
2016	PHI (AA)	9	9	53.0	0	0	49	35	15	0	1	6.45	341.90
2016	PHI (AAA)	19	19	117.2	0	0	90	83	27	3	10	5.29	621.94
2017	PHI (AAA)	16	16	97.0	0	0	82	91	22	4	3	5.47	530.30
2018	PHI (R)	1	1	1.0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	11.4	11.40
2018	PHI (R)	2	0	3.0	0	0	4	1	1	0	0	8.2	24.60
2018	PHI (AAA)	11	8	52.0	0	2	47	37	15	1	3	5.88	305.70
2019	KCR (AAA)	17	3	42.0	3	0	41	41	19	3	7	3.55	149.10
2019	ARI (AAA)	7	7	30.1	0	0	35	36	11	0	7	2.7	81.77
2022	CIN (AAA)	18	18	77.0	0	0	79	76	28	8	6	4.52	348.40
2023	CIN (AAA)	7	6	32.2	0	0	22	29	12	1	5	3.36	109.83
2024	CLE (AAA)	2	2	8.1	0	0	4	5	0	0	1	5.32	44.37

Year	Team	G	GS	IP	HLD	K	H	BB	HBP	HR	P/IP	Pts
2017	PHI (ST)	5	0	10.1	1	9	14	2	1	2	2.76	28.47
2018	PHI (ST)	6	5	23.0	0	15	17	2	2	2	5.19	119.40
2019	KCR (ST)	4	0	6.0	1	5	5	3	1	0	5.57	33.40
2022	CIN (ST)	1	0	2.0	0	5	1	0	0	0	11.1	22.20
2023	CIN (ST)	3	0	2.2	0	1	11	0	0	1	-7.19	-19.17
2024	CLE (ST)	2	1	4.2	0	3	4	2	0	0	5.17	24.13
2025	CLE (ST)	3	3	9.0	0	7	9	3	0	0	5.36	48.20

Date	Team	Opponent	GS	Win	IP	TBF	R	ER	H	K	BB	HBP	HR	Pts
Sep 28, 2024	CLE	HOU	1	0	4.0	23	4	2	5	4	4	1	0	9.60
Sep 20, 2024	CLE	@STL	1	1	5.0	19	1	1	3	2	1	0	0	30.20
Sep 15, 2024	CLE	TBR	1	1	5.0	20	0	0	4	2	1	0	0	27.60
Sep 10, 2024	CLE	@CHW	1	0	2.0	7	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	16.20
Sep 4, 2024	CLE	@KCR	1	0	4.0	20	4	4	7	3	1	0	1	2.10
Aug 30, 2024	CLE	PIT	1	0	4.1	24	6	6	9	3	1	0	1	-0.63
Aug 24, 2024	CLE	TEX	1	1	6.2	27	3	2	5	4	1	0	0	41.33
Aug 18, 2024	CLE	@MIL	1	0	6.0	24	2	2	5	5	2	1	0	32.40
Aug 12, 2024	CLE	CHC	1	0	3.2	20	3	3	5	1	4	0	2	-20.47
Aug 7, 2024	CLE	ARI	1	0	5.0	23	4	4	4	2	4	0	2	-6.00
Totals			10	3	45.2	207	27	24	48	28	19	2	6	132.33

Date	Level	Team	Opponent	GS	Win	IP	TBF	R	ER	H	K	BB	HBP	HR
Apr 9, 2024	AAA	COL	@LOU	1	1	5.1	20	3	3	4	1	0	0	1
Apr 4, 2024	AAA	COL	OMA	1	0	3.0	9	0	0	1	3	0	0	0
Aug 18, 2023	AAA	LOU	@IOW	1	0	5.0	20	4	4	4	6	1	0	2
Aug 13, 2023	AAA	LOU	@STP	1	0	0.2	9	6	6	6	0	1	0	1
May 3, 2023	AAA	LOU	@OMA	1	1	6.0	23	1	1	6	2	2	0	0
Apr 28, 2023	AAA	LOU	@IOW	0	1	5.0	17	0	0	1	3	2	1	0
Apr 22, 2023	AAA	LOU	CLT	1	1	6.0	26	2	2	6	4	3	0	0
Apr 11, 2023	AAA	LOU	@TOL	1	0	5.0	21	2	2	4	3	3	0	0
Apr 4, 2023	AAA	LOU	IND	1	1	5.0	18	2	2	2	4	0	0	2
Totals				8	5	41.0	163	20	20	34	26	12	1	6

Date	Level	Team	Opponent	GS	Win	Save	IP	TBF	R	ER	H	K	BB	HBP	HR
Feb 26, 2024	ST	CLE	@SD	1	1	0	2.0	7	0	0	1	1	1	0	0
Totals				1	1	0	2.0	7	0	0	1	1	1	0	0

Date	Transaction Type	Team	Salary
August 30, 2024 9:21 AM	add	Vlad Girls	$1
October 10, 2024 1:06 AM	increase	Vlad Girls	$3
January 16, 2025 4:45 PM	cut	Vlad Girls	$0

Date	Proposing Team	Proposing Team Gives	Accepting Team	Accepting Team Gives
January 26, 2025 8:55 PM	Canton Hoot Owls 🦉 🌲	Ben Lively CLE SP R $5 Sawyer Gipson-Long DET RP R $5 60IL	Cass Avenue Charlatans	Brayan Rocchio CLE SS S $8
December 20, 2024 8:12 AM	Rose to Cooperstown	Ben Lively CLE SP R $4 Jordan Montgomery ARI SP L $4 Calvin Faucher MIA RP R $4	PED-CO Park	Ryan McMahon COL 3B L $10 Edwin Uceta TBR RP R $12
December 19, 2024 10:57 AM	Giambinos	Ben Lively CLE SP R $3 Brent Rooker OAK OF R $16	Manfred's Clown Posse	Jurickson Profar SDP OF S $3 Max Meyer MIA SP R $4
June 24, 2024 1:02 PM	WHIP It, FIP It, and BABIP It	Ben Lively CLE SP R $1 Drew Rasmussen TBR RP R $7 Joey Ortiz MIL SS/3B R $3 Colton Cowser BAL OF L $6	River City Rascals	Rafael Devers BOS 3B L $38 $19 loan
June 19, 2024 2:36 PM	Waddling Pancreas	Starling Marte NYM OF R $1 Ben Lively CLE SP R $1 Trea Turner PHI SS R $41 $29 loan	I'm not Pfaadt, I'm big boned	Yimi Garcia TOR RP R $1 Joe Ryan MIN SP R $10
July 17, 2023 12:21 PM	4256	Mookie Betts LAD 2B/SS/OF R $48 Kyle Freeland COL SP L $1 Ryan Mountcastle BAL 1B R $13 Jose Urquidy HOU SP/RP R $7 60IL Tommy Edman STL SS/OF S $6 Alek Thomas ARI OF L $5	Big Klu Barrels Up	Ben Lively CIN SP R $1 Kyle Schwarber PHI OF L $24 Eloy Jimenez CHW Util R $28 Jhoan Duran MIN RP R $7 Josh Lowe TBR OF L $8 Marcelo Mayer BOS ST SS L $3
January 16, 2016 1:29 PM	Stroman Troopers	Wade Davis KCR RP R $9 Nate Karns BAL AAA RP R $5 Carlos Correa HOU SS R $18 Ben Lively PHI SP R $2	Everett Aquasox	Andrew Miller NYY RP L $7 Brandon Crawford SFG SS/3B L $5 Mike Trout LAA ST OF R $65 Kevin Siegrist STL RP L $6
January 15, 2015 12:35 PM	Asheville Tourists	Adam Wainwright STL RP R $38	Caimans 🐊	Matt Wisler TOR AAA RP R $4 Ben Lively CIN SP R $4
December 24, 2014 6:18 PM	Roy Donk?	Alex Rodriguez NYY Util R $3 Justin Morneau COL Util L $3 Ben Lively CIN SP R $2	The Razor Shines	Drew Smyly TBR SP/RP L $6
December 6, 2014 10:29 AM	Baddoo d' Bohm	Jorge Alfaro MIL ST Util R $2 Ben Lively CIN SP R $2 Luis Severino NYY SP R $2	Winnetka Cubs	Wil Myers CIN AAA Util R $20

Ben Lively CLE SP R

Born: 03/05/1992 Age: 33

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On MLB 40-man: YES
Acquired: Free Agent (CIN) Dec'23

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