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Friday, March 24, 2023
CLEARWATER, Fla.—Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Rhys Hoskins needs surgery for a torn ACL after injuring his left knee Thursday fielding a grounder in a spring training game and is expected to miss a significant amount of time.
The Phillies did not say when Hoskins would have the surgery or exactly how long the slugging first baseman might be sidelined.
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1. Jeff Francoeur's OPS Posted: March 24, 2023 at 06:25 AM (#6121239)Seriously though, big blow for the Phillies and Hoskins personally. This is his walk year and he just turned 30. Next winter was going to be his one shot at a big payday.
What if they bring him back as a DH only? Obviously hitting requires healthy legs and he needs to run the bases, but could he be back sooner if he doesn't have to play the field?
I don't know how much the ACL specifically ties into it, but having a healthy knee to plant your front leg and put some serious rotation on would seem to be a rather key part of swinging a baseball bat.
If this happened in the WBC, Hoskins would've spontaneously combusted and burned the whole stadium down.
Yeah, that one really hurts in more ways than one. It probably cost him an eight-digit amount of money. I feel really bad for him.
And this offseason, Bell got 1/$16 plus a player option; Mancini got 2/$14; CJ Cron got 2/$14.5 a year ago; Voit is unsigned; Belt 1/$9. So Hoskins may have lost out on 8 figures but barely and will still probably get $5-6 next year. (Although in a similar situation, Cron had to settle for $1 M from the Rox.)
It's perhaps more an issue with the arb system that a guy like Hoskins is getting $12 this year while comparable FAs are settling under $10 AAV. Hoskins (11 WAR, 2 WAA, no AS appearances) made a bit more money in his arb years than Willson Contreras (21 WAR, 12 WAA, 3 AS appearances). He's made the same as Conforto, a few million more than Swanson and Benintendi, about $10 M more than Nimmo. I could be wrong but I don't think Hoskins was looking at even 3/$40 on the market while most of those guys got nice contracts (and Conforto would have if not hurt and he still got 2/$36). Probably more a case that those guys should be getting a lot more than Hoskins should be paid less but it's not really the way arb is suppoed to work.
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