Alec Bohm is one of the most underpaid Phillies
Current contract: 1 year, $7.7 million ($7.7 million in 2025)
After all of the rumors surrounding Alec Bohm this past offseason, the budding star ultimately returned for another season with the Phillies in 2025. He easily could have made things difficult with Philadelphia by going to salary arbitration after all the stress he had to go through in the process. But instead, he gracefully accepted a tendered one-year, $7.7 million deal for the upcoming year.
At that salary, it sure makes Bohm an absolute bargain for the 2025 season. After all, the 28-year-old infielder is coming off back-to-back 97 RBI campaigns with the Phillies. That impressive RBI total ranked him among the top 20 in the National League in 2023 and even in the top 10 in 2024. More importantly, Bohm actually put together an All-Star campaign last season by hitting a solid .280 with a .779 OPS (117 OPS+), together with 62 runs scored, 44 doubles, two triples, 15 home runs and the previously mentioned 97 RBI in 143 games.
Despite all of that, Bohm found himself as one of the leading candidates to be moved this past winter when the Phillies were looking for a roster shakeup to help make the team better. Perhaps it was his struggles that he endured down the stretch with Philadelphia in 2024 or rather his disappointing showing in his three years of postseason appearances in which he compiled just a .214 average and .629 OPS, along with 11 runs scored, two home runs, 14 RBI, 11 walks and 25 strikeouts in 34 career playoff games. Either way, his name seemed to pop up in every major trade talk that the Phillies had during the early part of the 2024-25 offseason.
But moving Bohm seems counterproductive, given that he was actually one of the most valuable Phillies players from 2024 when based on FanGraphs WAR (fWAR). Had the Phillies traded him away, they had no immediate internal replacement to quickly fill his shoes and put up the stellar production numbers that he had consistently put up the past few seasons. On top of that, at just the young age of 28 and heading into his prime, the last thing the Phillies want to do is give up on a potential budding star who's slowly but surely rounding into elite form.
Nevertheless, at just a little under $8 million this season, look for Bohm to give it his all in preparation for his next big contract. As a result, he should be able to provide massive value for Philadelphia at an economical price in their pursuit of a World Series championship this year.