{"id":351937,"date":"2025-12-16T15:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/351937\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T15:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:07:08","slug":"phillies-and-adolis-garcia-agree-to-a-1-year-contract-to-fill-expected-spot-in-right-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/351937\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies and Adolis Garc\u00eda agree to a 1-year contract to fill expected spot in right field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/philadelphia-phillies-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phillies<\/a> and outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/adolis-garcia-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adolis Garcia<\/a> have agreed on a one-year contract for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">The Phillies and two-time All-Star with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/texas-rangers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Rangers<\/a> agreed on a reported $10 million deal. The 32-year-old Garcia is expected to start in right field for the Phillies, with veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/nick-castellanos-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Castellanos<\/a> expected to part ways with the organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">Garcia posted career bests in home runs (39), RBIs (107), OPS (.836), OPS+ (127), runs scored (108) and walks (65) in 2023 when he helped lead the Rangers to their first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/world-series\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Series<\/a> title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">He was named the ALCS MVP after posting a 1.293 OPS with five home runs and 15 RBIs, which included two home runs and five RBIs in Texas\u2019 Game 7 win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/houston-astros-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Astros<\/a> in Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">Garc\u00eda this year batted .227 with 19 homers and 75 RBIs. He had a .675 OPS over the past two seasons to rank 117th among 123 qualified hitters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 The Phillies and outfielder Adolis Garcia have agreed on a one-year contract for the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-351937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}