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Austin Hedges
Cleveland Guardians
C: 67
2026 Projected Value: $0
2026 Actual Value: $2 Difference: $2
Based on 10-team AL-only league

Player Stats Daily Log

Year	AB	H	R	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	Rate
2026 proj	152	25	13	3	13	13	46	1	0.164	-1.9
2026	184	47	20	5	21	18	37	1	0.255	9.8
2025	155	25	13	5	10	18	43	1	0.161	-1.6
2024	131	20	12	2	15	6	50	2	0.153	-1.6
2023	185	34	14	1	16	11	47	1	0.184	-2.5
2022	294	48	26	7	30	25	78	2	0.163	-2.3
2021	286	51	32	10	31	15	87	1	0.178	2.7
2020	69	10	7	3	6	6	23	1	0.145	-0.4
2019	312	56	28	11	36	27	109	1	0.179	2.5
2018	303	70	29	14	37	21	90	3	0.231	13.6
2017	387	83	36	18	55	23	122	4	0.214	15.3
2016	24	3	2	0	1	0	7	0	0.125	-1.3
2015	137	23	13	3	11	8	38	0	0.168	-1.6

Player News

Date	News
8/07/26	Last Night In Baseball: Red Sox Sweep The Season Series Against The White Sox. The Red Sox swept the season series against the White Sox, the Cubs ran it off, Ronald Acuña Jr. got two homers with some help, Austin Hedges does his best Ohtani impression and more from Thursday's MLB action. Source: https://www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/red-sox-whit...
4/20/26	Guardians' Hedges gets engaged on field after win. Austin Hedges scored the first run of the game for the Guardians but had a bigger moment after the final out. Source: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/48535395/guard...
4/20/26	Guardians' Hedges gets engaged on field after win. Austin Hedges scored the first run of the game for the Guardians but had a bigger moment after the final out. Source: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/48535395/guard...
10/16/25	Guardians re-sign catcher Hedges to 1-year deal. Catcher Austin Hedges re-signed with the Guardians, agreeing to a one-year contract worth $4 million. Source: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/46604193/guard...
10/15/25	Guardians re-sign catcher Hedges to 1-year deal. Catcher Austin Hedges re-signed with the Guardians, agreeing to a one-year contract worth $4 million. Source: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/46604193/guard...
9/05/25	Guardians use big second inning to get vital win vs. Rays. Ramirez went 3-for-5 with a double, two RBIs and a run, while Kwan finished 2-for-4 with two runs, two RBIs, two stolen bases and a walk. Austin Hedges homered and Nolan Jones had two hits. Starter Gavin Williams reached double figures in victories by scattering seven hits and yielding one run in seven innings. Source: https://www.hindustantimes.com/sports/us-sports/gu...
8/15/25	'Hedgie! Hedgie!': Austin Hedges relishes the support from Guardians fans in rare moment. In a rare circumstance, Austin Hedges received the kind of treatment normally reserved for a lineup's best hitters in a moment he greatly appreciated. Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/article/hedgie-hedgie-aus...
6/14/25	Austin Hedges returns to Cleveland Guardians after 5th concussion of his MLB career. Hedges visited a specialist in Pittsburgh before joining the Guardians in Seattle, one whom he had worked with during his first stint in Cleveland. “They're all very similar, at least my version of them," Hedges said. Source: https://www.wkyc.com/article/sports/mlb/cleveland-...
6/13/25	Guardians' Austin Hedges activated from 7-day injured list. The Cleveland Guardians activated catcher Austin Hedges from the 7-day injured list prior to Friday night's game against the Seattle Mariners. Hedges, 32, was placed on the list retroactive to last Thursday after he was struck on the helmet on a backswing by the New York Yankees' Jazz Chisholm Jr. during a game on Wednesday. It marked the fifth time Hedges — who is hitting .113 with three home runs and three RBIs this year— has been placed on the injured list because of a concussion across 11 MLB seasons. “They're all very similar, at least my version of them,” Hedges said. Source: https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/sports/baseball/...
6/07/25	Guardians put Hedges on IL after 5th concussion. Guardians catcher Austin Hedges suffered the fifth concussion of his career when he was struck on a backswing Wednesday night against the Yankees. Source: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45466967/guard...
6/07/25	Guardians put Hedges on IL after 5th concussion. Guardians catcher Austin Hedges suffered the fifth concussion of his career when he was struck on a backswing Wednesday night against the Yankees. Source: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45466967/guard...
6/06/25	Guardians' Austin Hedges suffers 5th concussion, placed on 7-day injured list. Guardians catcher Austin Hedges has been placed on the seven-day concussion list, retroactive to Wednesday. Manager Stephen Vogt said before Friday's game against the Houston Astros that Hedges was struck on a backswing from the Yankees' Jazz Chisholm Jr. during the ninth inning of Wednesday's game. It is the fifth concussion of Hedges' career. Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/article/guardians-austin-...
4/18/25	Veteran backup catcher showcases defensive skill in loss to Orioles: Guardians breakfast today. Opposing base runners be warned: Do not sleep on Austin Hedges when he is behind the plate. The Guardians veteran backup catcher showed exactly why in Thursday's 6-2 loss to the Orioles. “I don't have the luxury of being able to take pitches off back there,” Hedges said. Hedges proved his value as a backstop by picking Ramon Urias off at third base in the third inning on a throw down to Gabriel Arias. Source: https://www.cleveland.com/guardians/2025/04/vetera...
4/10/25	Guardians' Stephen Vogt recalls his own play at the plate that never materialized. The anticipation of a play at the plate between Guardians catcher Austin Hedges and White Sox base runner Mike Tauchman never materialized at the end of Wednesday's 3-2 win for Cleveland against Chicago at Progressive Field. Source: https://www.cleveland.com/guardians/2025/04/guardi...
3/26/25	Guardians will struggle against a stacked AL Central in 2025, miss playoffs: Joe Noga. In the aftermath of losing Game 5 of the American League Championship series to the Yankees in October, Guardians veteran catcher Austin Hedges sounded like he was ready to run it back as soon as possible. “The job's not done,” Hedges said in his postgame remarks to reporters. With spring training officially in the rearview mirror, “next year” is finally now. The question is: how far will that roadmap take them against an AL Central Division loaded with contenders? Source: https://www.cleveland.com/guardians/2025/03/guardi...
3/10/25	The most important .186 hitter in the majors? Why everybody loves Austin Hedges. It is 8 o'clock on a February morning in the Cleveland Guardians clubhouse, and Austin Hedges is, as he often is, shirtless, which always amused one of his managers, Terry Francona, because, as the 65-year-old skipper put it, "with his shirt off, he looks like me." Hedges is, as always, talking, teaching and laughing, as are his teammates, though it's hard to imagine a group ever laughing harder than after Game 1 of the 2023 World Series, when the Texas Rangers' Adolis Garcia hit a walk-off home run, while Hedges, in the hole at the time, celebrated wildly -- inspiring an Instagram meme with what Hedges might have been thinking at that moment: Great, I don't have to hit! "It was hilarious ... it wasn't very nice, but it was hilarious," Hedges said. Source: https://africa.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/44123618/ml...
2/26/25	Seattle Mariners' Cal Raleigh Credits Unlikely Source For Helping Him Win Platinum Glove. Raleigh played in 153 games last year, most of them at catcher, and took home both the Gold and Platinum Glove awards in the American League. While his success can be attributed to good M's coaching and his own great talent and work ethic, Raleigh also got some help from an unlikely source: Cleveland Guardians backstop Austin Hedges. According to a recent story in The Athletic, Raleigh called Hedges after the 2023 season and the pair started working on things like pitch receiving. Source: https://www.si.com/mlb/mariners/news/seattle-marin...
2/25/25	How Texas Rangers' World Series run was aided by an ostrich egg and Austin Hedges' posterior. To stream 5 On Your Side on your phone, you need the 5 On Your Side app. Source: https://www.ksdk.com/video/sports/locked-on/lo-dal...
12/08/24	Recent Guardians Trade Rumors Shouldn't Come As A Surprise. The Cleveland Guardians have made minimal moves so far this offseason. Yes, they've re-signed veteran catcher Austin Hedges and brought back Shane Bieber on a one-year deal. Now, two key members of the Guardians roster, Josh Naylor and Lane Thomas, are swirling around in trade rumors, while it's obvious Cleveland needs more major league bats in their lineup. On Thursday, Ken Rosenthal of The Atheltic reported that Cleveland is "open to trade offers" on both players as they head into their last season of team control. Source: https://www.si.com/mlb/guardians/opinion/recent-cl...
11/07/24	AL Central champion Guardians bring back Hedges for 2025. Austin Hedges' contributions went well beyond being just a light-hitting backup catcher for the Guardians last season. The popular catcher agreed to a $4 million, one-year contract Wednesday to return to the AL Central champions, who credited Hedges' leadership as a major factor in the team's unexpected success in 2024. The Guardians took over first place in April and stayed there, going 92-69 and winning the AL Central under rookie manager Stephen Vogt. Cleveland beat Detroit in a tight Division Series before losing in five games to the New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series. Source: https://www.limaohio.com/sports/2024/11/07/al-cent...

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