{"id":7094,"date":"2025-07-19T03:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T03:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/7094\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T03:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T03:25:10","slug":"phillies-love-kyle-schwarber-committed-to-re-signing-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/7094\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies &#8216;love&#8217; Kyle Schwarber, committed to re-signing him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 18, 2025, 06:49 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33712\/kyle-schwarber\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Schwarber<\/a>&#8216;s deep shots &#8212; from Philadelphia to the All-Star Game &#8212; often end up going, going, gone.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/phi\/philadelphia-phillies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phillies<\/a> aren&#8217;t ready to say goodbye to their star slugger quite yet as Schwarber&#8217;s four-year, $79 million contract expires at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh off winning All-Star Game MVP honors after he hit three homers in the game&#8217;s first-ever swing-off, Schwarber&#8217;s status for 2026, when Philadelphia will host the game, remains a pressing need for the Phillies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We love him,&#8221; Phillies manager partner John Middleton said ahead of Friday&#8217;s series-opening game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/laa\/los-angeles-angels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a>. &#8220;We want to keep him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>In the All-Star Game in Atlanta on Tuesday night, Schwarber homered on all three of his swings, going down to his left knee on the final one, to give the National League a 4-3 swing-off win after a 6-6 tie through nine innings.<\/p>\n<p>Schwarber enters the second half of the season with 30 homers and 69 RBIs for NL East-leading Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>He led the NL with 46 homers in his first season with the Phillies and followed with 47 in 2023 and 38 a year ago. Often hitting from the leadoff spot until this season, Schwarber drove in 104 runs each of the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need no motivation whatsoever when it comes to Kyle Schwarber,&#8221; Middleton said. &#8220;He&#8217;s great. We thought he was great when we signed him years ago. We thought he was great consistently through the years. There&#8217;s nothing Kyle does that surprises us. No matter how great he is, we expect that from Kyle. He&#8217;s a great person in the dugout. He&#8217;s a great person in the clubhouse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schwarber, 32, is likely to command well beyond the $79 million he signed for ahead of the 2022 season. Schwarber won a World Series with the Cubs in 2016. He also played in Washington and Boston but has seemed to find a home in Philadelphia, where his mammoth homers, dubbed Schwarbombs, have made him arguably the most popular Phillies star.<\/p>\n<p>Schwarber said during the All-Star break that he wanted to keep the focus on helping the Phillies win their first World Series since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had conversations in the spring, and obviously they didn&#8217;t progress,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We just kind of tabled them aside and wanted to focus on the season. Obviously, there&#8217;s interest on my side. I know there&#8217;s going to be interest on their side there coming up at the end of the year. We&#8217;re going to see where that takes us. If that&#8217;s us striking up a deal, that&#8217;s us striking up a deal.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 18, 2025, 06:49 PM ET PHILADELPHIA &#8212; Kyle Schwarber&#8216;s deep shots &#8212; from Philadelphia to the All-Star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-7094","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\/7094","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=7094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}