The Phillies Avoid Arbitration with three Players and Sealed Deal with five more.

The Philadelphia Phillies announced a series of roster alterations prior to Friday evening’s deadline to tender contracts to arbitration-eligible players.

OF/1B Jake Cave, Garrett Stubbs, and RHP Dylan Covey have agreed to terms with the Phillies for 2024 contracts. The specific terms of each contract were obtained by Joel Sherman of The New York Post.

Meanwhile, the Phillies signed third baseman Alec Bohm, infielder Edmundo Sosa, RHP Jeff Hoffman, LHP Ranger Suárez, and LHP Gregory Soto to contracts.

The Phillies’ sole non-tendered player was LHP Josh Fleming, who was taken on waivers from the Tampa Bay Rays after only 11 days with the team.

To establish their pay for 2024, the Phillies must either reach an agreement with Bohm, Sosa, Hoffman, Suárez, and Soto, or go to arbitration with them.

Four of the Phillies’ six eligible players, including first baseman Rhys Hoskins, have avoided arbitration.

According to Fansided’s Robert Murray, Hoskins has a one-year contract worth $12 million.

Hoskins’ contract with the Phillies expires at the end of the season. Unless the sides reach an agreement, he will be a free agency at the end of the season.

It’s a big but expected increase from Hoskins’ $7.7 million salary last season, his second year of arbitration eligibility. He earned $4.8 million the previous year.

The deadline for organizations and players to trade arbitration figures was Friday, and the Phillies had six players eligible for the day: Hoskins, Ranger Suarez, Jose Alvarado, Seranthony Dominguez, Gregory Soto, and Edmundo Sosa.

They signed four of them to contracts: Hoskins, Suarez, Soto, and Sosa. The organization signed reliever Sam Coonrod earlier this offseason after he missed much of last season due to arm problems.

Dominguez and Alvarado are yet to be signed. If no settlements are reached, the Phillies will head to arbitration hearings with them next month.

Alvarado, like Hoskins, is in his final year of arbitration eligibility. Dominguez is in his third year of eligibility, while Suarez, Soto, and Sosa are in their first.