Amid signs that the free agent market is finally starting to wake up from its two-month hibernation, the Phillies have made a new nine-figure bid to free agent pickup JT Realmuto.
According to an industry source familiar with the negotiations, the offer was for five years and slightly north of $ 100 million, which is believed to be somewhere in the range where the club was last March, when negotiations stalled due to MLB’s COVID -19 transaction freezes.
The new president of Phillies baseball operations, Dave Dombrowski, declined to comment to The Athletic on Friday, saying: “We continue to have an interest in JT. “.
However, Dombrowski confirmed a report from NBC Sports Philadelphia that he met in person with Realmuto and his wife in Oklahoma late last month. According to sources, the club followed up on its latest offer last week …