{"id":584113,"date":"2026-02-21T03:24:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/584113\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T03:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:24:31","slug":"bryce-harper-reportedly-asked-dave-dombrowski-to-explore-bringing-back-a-former-phillies-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/584113\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryce Harper reportedly asked Dave Dombrowski to explore bringing back a former Phillies player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">A recent report shows <a href=\"https:\/\/bolavip.com\/en\/topic\/bryce-harper\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"break-word font-articleLinkText text-articleLinkText hover:text-articleLinkTextHover hover:bg-articleLinkTextHoverBg cursor-pointer border-solid border-b-articleLinkTextHover\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bryce Harper<\/a> advocated to Dave Dombrowski for another right-handed power bat for the Philadelphia Phillies. The player he wanted was Rhys Hoskins, but things didn\u2019t go as planned with his former teammate.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">The report from Devan Kaney on X (@devan_kaney) read: \u201cSources tell me Bryce Harper has been advocating for more right handed power and someone who could give the Phillies more emotional edge\/swagger. I\u2019m told Harper suggested Dave Dombrowski look into a reunion with Rhys Hoskins who remains a free agent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">Hoskins began his <a href=\"https:\/\/bolavip.com\/en\/mlb\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"break-word font-articleLinkText text-articleLinkText hover:text-articleLinkTextHover hover:bg-articleLinkTextHoverBg cursor-pointer border-solid border-b-articleLinkTextHover\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MLB<\/a> career with the Phillies in 2017 and played alongside Harper through 2022. He missed all of 2023 due to injury and spent 2024 and 2025 with the Brewers, hitting .237 in his most recent season.<\/p>\n<p>Dombrowski didn\u2019t see Hoskins as a fit<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">Kaney notes that while Hoskins wanted to return to Philadelphia after two good years with Milwaukee to \u201cfinish the job,\u201d Harper\u2019s suggestion didn\u2019t carry weight because Dombrowski had the final call.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">\u201cI\u2019m told Hoskins is game to come back and finish the job with the Phillies. Dombrowski kicked tires on a potential reunion before ultimately deciding Hoskins is not a fit, according to sources,\u201d Kaney wrote regarding the former Phillies first baseman.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Phillies receive key injury update on ace Zack Wheeler ahead of new season\" href=\"https:\/\/bolavip.com\/en\/mlb\/phillies-receive-key-injury-update-on-ace-zack-wheeler-ahead-of-new-season\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"article-also-read-embed\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aspect-square max-w-[100px] m-[10px] md:m-0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/phillies-zack-200x200.webp.webp\" alt=\"Phillies receive key injury update on ace Zack Wheeler ahead of new season\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary my-[13px] uppercase text-alsoReadSeeAlso bg-alsoReadSeeAlsoBackground alsoReadSeeAlso w-fit\">see also<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full line-clamp-3 md:line-clamp-2 text-alsoReadEmbedTitle font-primary alsoReadLink\">Phillies receive key injury update on ace Zack Wheeler ahead of new season<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"break-word\">The specific reasons why Dombrowski saw Hoskins as not a fit for the Phillies aren\u2019t clear, but he wasn\u2019t a cheap option either, last season, Hoskins earned $17 million, the final payment on his two-year deal with the Milwaukee Brewers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A recent report shows Bryce Harper advocated to Dave Dombrowski for another right-handed power bat for the Philadelphia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2397],"tags":[5,1207,4,144,25,4216,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-584113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-phillies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-bryce-harper","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","13":"tag-philadelphiaphillies","14":"tag-phillies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116106486754439884","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}