{"id":33158,"date":"2026-06-12T01:10:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/phillies-add-outfield-depth-acquire-veteran-hill-from-white-sox\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T01:10:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:10:04","slug":"phillies-add-outfield-depth-acquire-veteran-hill-from-white-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/phillies-add-outfield-depth-acquire-veteran-hill-from-white-sox\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies add outfield depth, acquire veteran Hill from White Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\"><span class=\"timestamp \">Jun 11, 2026, 06:29 PM ET<\/span><\/div>\n<p>CHICAGO &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/chw\/chicago-white-sox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White Sox<\/a> traded veteran outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33721\/derek-hill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Derek Hill<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/phi\/philadelphia-phillies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> on Thursday in a swap between contending teams.<\/p>\n<p>The White Sox also sent $250,000 in international bonus pool money to the Phillies for minor league outfielder Dylan Campbell and minor league infielder Jos\u00e9 Colmenares.<\/p>\n<p>Hill, 30, is batting .213 with four homers, eight RBIs and seven steals in 50 games this season. He was claimed off waivers by the White Sox in September.<\/p>\n<p>The trade for Hill adds to Philadelphia&#8217;s outfield depth after <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/adolis-garcia-phillies-6043f24f9093b8621abf81ef5d2b6289\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adolis Garc\u00eda<\/a> departed Wednesday night&#8217;s 7-4 victory at Toronto because of a pulled muscle in his right shoulder. Garc\u00eda was expected to get some imaging Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies are 28-12 since <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/philadelphia-phillies-mattingly-thomson-1ec2ab15da5ed94787c4e3deb25d789b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Don Mattingly<\/a> took over as interim manager after <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/phillies-philadelphia-thomson-fired-fcb4ab6e0999f8d81fd11b092f8235e9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rob Thomson<\/a> was fired in April. They had an off day before beginning a weekend series at NL Central-leading Milwaukee on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>To make room on Philadelphia&#8217;s 40-man roster, the Phillies designated right-hander Jackson Rutledge for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago had won four of six going into Thursday night&#8217;s game against Atlanta. After dropping at least 101 games in each of the previous three years, the White Sox began the day on top of the AL Central with a 36-31 record.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago also activated outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41252\/everson-pereira\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Everson Pereira<\/a> from the 10-day injured list before their series finale against the Braves. The 25-year-old Pereira had been sidelined by a right pectoral strain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It took a little more time than I was expecting to, but I feel very good right now,&#8221; Pereira said through an interpreter. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think I have to be concerned about it throughout the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jun 11, 2026, 06:29 PM ET CHICAGO &#8212; The White Sox traded veteran outfielder Derek Hill to the Philadelphia Phillies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_animmysite_disable_animation":false,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0611%2Fr1671603_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}