{"id":497452,"date":"2026-02-22T20:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/497452\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T20:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:40:08","slug":"guardians-agree-to-minor-league-deal-with-1b-rhys-hoskins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/497452\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians agree to minor league deal with 1B Rhys Hoskins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOODYEAR, Ariz. &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/cle\/cleveland-guardians\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Guardians<\/a> have agreed to a minor league deal with first baseman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/35291\/rhys-hoskins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rhys Hoskins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is pending Hoskins passing a physical, but he was with the team Sunday. Manager Stephen Vogt told reporters he is excited to have Hoskins added as a right-handed hitter who can compete for time at first base and designated hitter.<\/p>\n<p>Hoskins, 32, will compete with two left-handed hitters, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4917927\/kyle-manzardo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Manzardo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4719337\/cj-kayfus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CJ Kayfus<\/a>, at first base.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s got a chance to come into camp, make an impact and possibly make the team,&#8221; Vogt told Cleveland.com. &#8220;He&#8217;s a right-handed bat who can play first base and DH. Obviously, we don&#8217;t have a lot of right-handed bats in camp.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hoskins played for the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4750d73d-d92e-b390-758c-2c7b44a810db\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/mil\/milwaukee-brewers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> the last two seasons following six seasons with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ff1e263a-f6a6-93c3-1373-418623652ff0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/phi\/philadelphia-phillies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Phillies<\/a>. He hit .237 with 12 homers in 279 at-bats last seasons after hitting .214 with 26 homers and 82 RBIs in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Brewers declined their $18 million option on Hoskins after last season. Hoskins received a $4 million buyout that completed a $34 million, two-year contract. MLB.com reported Hoskins would earn $1.5 million from Cleveland if he makes the opening day roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GOODYEAR, Ariz. &#8212; The Cleveland Guardians have agreed to a minor league deal with first baseman Rhys Hoskins.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-497452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497452","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=497452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}