{"id":329330,"date":"2025-12-04T04:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T04:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/329330\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T04:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T04:29:07","slug":"sam-hilliard-signs-with-kbos-kt-wiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/329330\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Hilliard Signs With KBO&#8217;s KT Wiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The KT Wiz of the Korea Baseball Organization announced the signing of outfielder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hillisa01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sam Hilliard<\/a> to a $1MM contract. He\u2019ll collect a $300K signing bonus and make a $700K salary. Hilliard elected minor league free agency after being outrighted by Colorado in July.<\/p>\n<p>A lefty-hitting outfielder, Hilliard has played parts of seven seasons in the big leagues. Most of that time has been with the Rockies, for whom he logged separate stats sandwiching a 2023 season in Atlanta. Hilliard has plus raw power and speed but has never made enough contact to stick as a regular. He has yet to appear in more than half a team\u2019s games or top 238 plate appearances in an MLB season.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Hilliard is a lifetime .218\/.298\/.437 hitter in a little under 1000 career trips to the plate. The former 15th-round draftee has punched out in 34.3% of those plate appearances. He\u2019s a much more accomplished Triple-A performer. Hilliard has a .275\/.356\/.563 slash over six Triple-A campaigns. That includes a .288\/.367\/.565 showing with 17 homers in 91 games for Colorado\u2019s top affiliate this past season.<\/p>\n<p>This is Hilliard\u2019s first trip to Asia, where he\u2019ll take home a stronger salary than he\u2019d have received on a minor league deal. Hilliard completes the Wiz\u2019s trio of allotted foreign-born players. The team signed right-handers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sauerma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Matt Sauer<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/boushca01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Caleb Boushley<\/a> earlier in the offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The KT Wiz of the Korea Baseball Organization announced the signing of outfielder\u00a0Sam Hilliard to a $1MM contract.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,167310,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-329330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sam-hilliard","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}