Oct 15, 2025, 11:11 AM ET<\/p>\n
CLEVELAND — Catcher Austin Hedges<\/a> re-signed with the Cleveland Guardians<\/a>, agreeing Wednesday to a one-year contract worth $4 million.<\/p>\n Hedges, who had been eligible for free agency, gets the same base salary he had this season. He can earn $500,000 in performance bonuses for starts as a catcher: $125,000 each for 70, 75, 80 and 85.<\/p>\n Even though Hedges is the backup catcher, he has emerged as a key clubhouse leader on a squad that has won the AL Central three of the last four seasons.<\/p>\n Cleveland first acquired Hedges in 2020 from the San Diego Padres<\/a>. He spent 2023 with the Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> and Texas Rangers<\/a> before returning to the Guardians in 2024.<\/p>\n Hedges, 33, was tied for fourth among AL catchers in defensive runs saved with nine. His 95 defensive runs saved since 2017 are the most in the majors among catchers.<\/p>\n He hit .161 with five homers and 10 RBIs in 180 plate appearances over 68 games, including 54 starts at catcher.<\/p>\n Hedges also made three pitching appearances in the ninth inning of losses, raising his career mound games to eight over the past three seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 15, 2025, 11:11 AM ET CLEVELAND — Catcher Austin Hedges re-signed with the Cleveland Guardians, agreeing Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-215098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}