As of November 2007, he is the National Coordinator of Baseball Sales for equipment company Riddell [1] Archived October 5, 2011, at the Wayback Machine and an ambassador to youth players.

He was the only member of the infield not to make the American Association All-Star team as Raines (2B), Wallach (3B) and Jerry Manuel (SS) were all selected.

His homer total was more than Nick Esasky and Ryne Sandberg combined in the 1981 American Association, and he was only one home run behind league leader George Bjorkman.

He led the team in home runs in spite of not playing his first game until May 29, giving Ranger fans hopes that he would become a huge power threat.

However, he was replaced at 1B by rookie Pete O'Brien in 1983, and did not last long at DH as his power faded away, with only 11 home runs in 94 games while his strikeout rate went from bad to awful.

Texas Ranger fans had hoped he might someday be as good as Dave Kingman, but Hostetler never had much success in the Major Leagues.

He had been acquired in 1982, along with Larry Parrish, in a spring training trade with the Montreal Expos for Al Oliver, who subsequently went on to tear up the National League.

Hostetler also spent time playing baseball in Japan, appearing with the Nankai Hawks of the Pacific League in 1986 and 1987.

He spent most of the 1988 season with the second minor league team to draw a million fans, the Buffalo Bisons of the American Association, hitting .187/~.280/.311 in 84 games.