{"id":635907,"date":"2026-03-21T19:53:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/635907\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T19:53:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:53:50","slug":"phillies-acquire-carter-kieboom-from-guardians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/635907\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies Acquire Carter Kieboom From Guardians"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Phillies have acquired infielder Carter Kieboom<\/a> from the Guardians in exchange for cash considerations, as reported by MLB.com\u2019s Tim Stebbins<\/a> shortly before the Guards officially announced the trade.<\/p>\n

Kieboom signed a minor league deal with Cleveland during the offseason and had only a .512 OPS over 26 Spring Training plate appearances.\u00a0 Since Kieboom didn\u2019t appear to be in the Guardians\u2019 plans, the Phillies stepped in to trade for the 28-year-old, likely just as a depth option for Philadelphia at the Triple-A level.<\/p>\n

At one point it seemed like Kieboom was going to be a prominent division foe for the Phillies, as the former first-rounder was a top-100 prospect during his time in the Nationals\u2019 farm system.\u00a0 However, Kieboom just hasn\u2019t produced against big league pitching, with just a .200\/.297\/.300 slash line to show for 516 career plate appearances in the Show.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t play in the majors at all in 2024, and a minor league deal with the Angels last winter resulted in only three MLB games for Kieboom in 2025.<\/p>\n

It is anyone\u2019s guess if a late-career breakout of some kind may still be possible, but for now, Kieboom would be happy with sticking on a Major League roster in any capacity.\u00a0 Kieboom has primary been a corner infielder for the last few years with a handful of games at second base, so he could provide some utility infield depth should the Phillies ever have a need to select him to the 26-man roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phillies have acquired infielder Carter Kieboom from the Guardians in exchange for cash considerations, as reported by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,32289],"class_list":{"0":"post-635907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-carter-kieboom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116268922736645958","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635907","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=635907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}