Phillies Avoid Arbitration With Alec Bohm: Here’s What It Means

Despite an offseason where his name has circulated in trade rumors, Alec Bohm and the Phillies avoided arbitration ahead of Thursday's deadline to exchange figures.

According to Robert Murray of FanSided, the Phillies and Bohm reached a $7.7 million agreement for the 2025 season, his penultimate year of arbitration eligibility. 

As MLB Trade Rumors noted, 1 p.m. ET Thursday was the deadline for teams to reach deals to avoid having to exchange figures with a player. If a deal wasn't reached by then, each side would have to put together their projected arbitration figure before 8 p.m. ET tonight. The two sides then go to a hearing during Spring Training, make their cases and a panel of judges decides to either go with the player or team's number. There's no splitting the difference. 

Bohm and the Phillies actually went to an arbitration hearing last February, with the former first-round pick winning his case and getting a $4 million salary, as opposed to the $3.4 million salary proposed by the Phillies. 

MLB Trade Rumors — who have an arbitration projection model that is typically very accurate — actually had projected an $8.1 million salary for Bohm in 2025. So the two sides were able to settle this time around under that figure by a comfortable margin. 

Does this mean that there wasn't any legitimacy to the Phillies listening on Bohm or that 28-year-old might not be frustrated by hearing his name bandied about this offseason? Nope. Heck, this doesn't prevent the Phillies from trading him still if the right offer presents itself. This is more of a procedural move between the Phillies and Bohm, who is represented by Scott Boras. 

Bohm started at third base for the NL All-Star team a year ago, after hitting .366 over his first 112 at-bats of the season. However, he struggled in the second half of the season, posting just a .681 OPS, down significantly from his first-half mark of .830. 

Manager Rob Thomson actually elected to start Edmundo Sosa over a struggling Bohm at third base in Game 2 of the NLWCS, and after the Phillies were eliminated by the New York Mets in four games, Bohm was asked about his future with the organization: 

Alec Bohm on if he’s at a crossroads: “No, I know where I’ll be next year.” @OnPattison @PhilliesNation pic.twitter.com/MzCAMAf9a8

— Tim Kelly (@TimKellySports) October 10, 2024

Bohm will no doubt be one of the biggest stories at the outset of Spring Training next month, assuming he's still with the Phillies. All today really assures is that Bohm and the Phillies won't have a second consecutive arbitration hearing. 

Elsewhere, the Phillies avoided arbitration with all their other eligible players, they announced. The Phillies had previously avoided arbitration with José Ruiz and Garrett Stubbs, two players who may have otherwise been non-tender candidates. The financials for the five players they came to terms with weren't announced by the Phillies, but all have been reported: 

1. Ranger Suárez — who is arbitration eligible for the final time — will make $8.8 million from the Phillies this season, per MLB.com's Mark Feinsand. That's $100,000 under the MLBTR projection of $8.9 million. 
2. The newly-acquired Jesús Luzardo will make $6.225 million in his first season with the Phillies, per Murray. Like Bohm, this is Luzardo's second-to-last year of arbitration eligibility before free agency. He actually got slightly more than the original MLB Trade Rumors projection of $6 million. 
3. Brandon Marsh is arbitration-eligible for the first time this year, and Jon Heyman of The New York Post says that he and the Phillies settled at $3 million. That's the exact number that had been projected by MLBTR. 
4. Bryson Stott — also a first-time arbitration-eligible player — settled with the Phillies for $3.2 million, Feinsand reported. That came in under the $3.5 million MLBTR prediction. 
5.  Edmundo Sosa avoided arbitration with the Phillies, according to Matt Gelb of The Athletic. Ari Alexander of KPRC 2 says it's for $3 million, which would be above the $2.5 million projection. 

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