JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Bozeman native Bennett Hostetler will open the 2026 season at Triple-A Jacksonville of the International League in the Miami Marlins’ farm system.<\/p>\n
Hostetler, 28, was listed as one of three catchers with the Jacksonville club, which announced its opening day roster on Wednesday. The team begins its season on Friday.<\/p>\n
Hostetler was a non-roster invitee to spring training this year, appearing in 11 games. He hit a two-run home run for the Marlins in a game against the Nationals on March 14. He was reassigned to minor league camp on March 17.<\/p>\n
Hostetler spent all of last season with Jacksonville, appearing in 37 games while spending stretches of the year on the injured list. He slashed .179\/.325\/.221 in 120 plate appearances. <\/p>\n
This will be Hostetler’s sixth season in professional baseball, all with the Miami organization. He has so far appeared in 324 minor league games, accumulating a .240\/.324\/.370 slash line with 30 homers, 161 RBIs and 148 runs scored.<\/p>\n
A former standout with the Bozeman Bucks American Legion baseball program, Hostetler was an 18th-round selection of the Marlins in the 2021 MLB first-year player draft out of North Dakota State, where he was named Summit League MVP earlier that year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Bozeman native Bennett Hostetler will open the 2026 season at Triple-A Jacksonville of the International…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2395],"tags":[5,82794,38021,13457,1816,778,58,4171,2125,4,10004,82795],"class_list":["post-646125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami-marlins","tag-baseball","tag-bennett-hostetler","tag-bozeman-bucks","tag-jacksonville-jumbo-shrimp","tag-marlins","tag-miami","tag-miami-marlins","tag-miamimarlins","tag-minor-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-montana-sports","tag-north-dakota-state-bison"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116300108489901573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646125","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=646125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}