{"id":88724,"date":"2024-11-01T15:06:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T19:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=88724"},"modified":"2024-11-01T15:06:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T19:06:51","slug":"rhys-hoskins-exercises-club-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/11\/01\/rhys-hoskins-exercises-club-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-Time 30 HR Hitter Exercises Player Option, Will Return to Brewers Next Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hoskirh01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-11-01_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rhys Hoskins<\/a> became the Milwaukee Brewers primary first baseman in his first year back from ACL surgery. Now, Hoskins has exercised his $18 million player option for 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamMcCalvy\/status\/1852412103652733211\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam McCalvy of MLB.com reports<\/a>. Doing so prevents Hoskins from taking a $4 million buyout and again become a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Hoskins, 31, could have netted a multi-year deal on the open market. However, it&#8217;s unlikely he would have been able to top his $18 million salary and his batting .214\/.303\/.419 with 26 home runs across 131 games for the Brewers. He should continue to be Milwaukee&#8217;s primary first baseman again next year, with some starts at designated hitter mixed in.<\/p>\n<h2>Rhys Hoskins Exercises Player Option for 2025<\/h2>\n<p>Hoskins signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/01\/23\/rhys-hoskins-signs-brewers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">two-year deal<\/a> that guaranteed him $34 million in January after missing the 2023 season due to a torn ACL sustained while fielding a grounder in a spring training game with the Philadelphia Phillies. The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/03\/05\/which-free-agents-were-the-best-bargains-of-the-winter\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">contract<\/a> allowed him to opt out after the first year as Hoskins would return to form following his season-ending surgery. It also gives the Brewers one more year of Hoskins in the middle-of-the-order. The deal includes an $18 million option for 2026 with a $4 million buyout.<\/p>\n<p>Since his major league debut in August 2017 through 2022, Hoskins ranked among the National League&#8217;s top performers in several key categories. He finished fourth in home runs (148), RBI (405), and extra-base hits (304), fifth in walks (388), seventh in total bases (1,195), and eighth in doubles (149).<\/p>\n<p>Hoskin&#8217;s decision on Friday came a day after the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/10\/31\/brewers-decline-wade-miley-option\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Brewers declinded<\/a> left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mileywa01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-11-01_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wade Miley<\/a>&#8216;s $12 million mutual option on Thursday. It was an expected outcome that gave the veteran a $1.5 million buyout and made him a free agent. Miley&#8217;s season was limited to two starts before his left elbow gave out and underwent a hybrid Tommy John procedure in May. Initially, Miley deferred a decision about whether he would continue pitching, but buy the end of the season, he was leaning toward a comeback.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: \u00a9 Benny Sieu-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhys Hoskins became the Milwaukee Brewers primary first baseman in his first year back from ACL surgery. Now, Hoskins has exercised his $18 million player option for 2025, Adam McCalvy of MLB.com reports. Doing so prevents Hoskins from taking a $4 million buyout and again become a free agent. Hoskins, 31, could have netted a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3686,"featured_media":88726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,1071,35],"tags":[268,1654,2198],"class_list":["post-88724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brewers","category-mlb","category-news","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-rhys-hoskins","tag-wade-miley"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}