There are, it turns out, players not named Juan Soto who may wind up on new teams when the 2025 Major League Baseball season begins next March.
Add Alec Bohm to that list. The infielder with the Philadelphia Phillies, fresh off his first All-Star selection in 2024, is “on the trade block,” ESPN’s Jeff Passan reports.
Shortly after that report, ESPN’s Buster Olney noted that a “rival evaluator” believed the Phillies were a logical landing spot for free agent Alex Bregman, who also plays third base.
“His swing translates in that park, strong defense, lots of postseason scar tissue,” Olney wrote on X.
Bregman, a .272 career hitter, was a key part of both recent Astros’ World Series teams and the 30-year-old is one of the top free agents on the market.
Bohm’s fifth year in the league was a microcosm of the Phillies’ 131st season in franchise history — there were extreme highs, extreme lows and disappointing endings.
Aided by the infielder’s stellar work in the box, Philadelphia looked like a true contender through the first half of the season.
The 28-year-old was one of the hottest hitters in baseball early on, slashing .370/.448/.630 in April, then posting an .812 OPS in June.
He hit 11 homers in his first 94 games and ranked as high as 11th among NL players in wins above replacement (WAR).
Ahead of All Star weekend in mid-July, Bohm beat out San Diego Padres’ third baseman Manny Machado with 70% of the fan vote for the National League’s starting third baseman.
Bohm’s production, though, tapered off hard and fast in the second half of the season.
Bohm was contending with a left hand injury for a portion of the back half, an injury that kept him out of 14 games, and his line came back down to Earth: .251/.299/.382.
Philadelphia played mediocre .500 baseball after the break before falling to the Mets in four games in the the NL Divisional Series.
At one point in that series, Bohm saw only five pitches in four consecutive at bats.
He made a lot of weak contact, wound up on the bench, and then publicly vowed, “I’m not going to change.”
Given his team-friendly terms — entering his second year of arbitration in 2025, Bohm carries a projected salary of $8.1 million per Spotrac — the All Star will likely earn significant interest on the market.
His suitors though, know what they’re bargaining for.