Awful news. It's a 12-month rehab, but if Ronald Acuña is a prototype, then it's more like an 16-18 month process to get truly right. Hoskins doesn't play as hard as Acuña, so maybe he's closer to the 12-month mark.

At least he didn't get hurt playing for the Netherlands in the WBC.

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.

I'd try to get Luke Voit. The Brewers seem ambivalent about keeping him.

Awful news. It's a 12-month rehab, but if Ronald Acuña is a prototype, then it's more like an 16-18 month process to get truly right. Hoskins doesn't play as hard as Acuña, so maybe he's closer to the 12-month mark.

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?

Ban Spring Training!

#3 - yeah, Voit seems like a no-brainer for them. He will fit in PERFECTLY there. Curious to see if Milwaukee adds him to the 40-man today.

Darin Ruf is available.

That injury seemed so weird. It must have been an injury waiting to happen, because it was a completely benign play.

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.

Schwarber famously made it back in 6 months for the 2016 Series when he hit 412 with no power (no complaints). On the other hand, a torn ACL ended my brilliant slow-pitch softball career. I'll let you decide if Hoskins is more like Schwarber or me.

At least he didn't get hurt playing for the Netherlands in the WBC.

If this happened in the WBC, Hoskins would've spontaneously combusted and burned the whole stadium down.

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.

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.

He's already signed for this year so he's got $26 M in career earnings -- it's a bad break for sure but he's more than set for life. Although I can't think of any specific examples off the top of my head, it seems to me that it's semi-traditional he resigns with the Phils next year for a reasonable amount (up to this year's salary).

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.

Voit just opted out - I suspect he's headed to philly