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 offer to free agent catcher JT Realmuto.
According to an industry source familiar with the negotiations, the offer was for five years and just north of $ 100 million, which is believed to be somewhere in the range of where the club was in March last March, when negotiations ended. due to MLB’s COVID -19 transactions crash.
Dave Dombrowski, the new Phillies’ baseball operations president, declined to comment on The Athletic on Friday, saying, “We remain interested in JT. But from a negotiating standpoint, these are things that should be kept private.”
However, Dombrowski did confirm an NBC Sports Philadelphia report that he met in person with Realmuto and his wife in Oklahoma late last month. Sources say the club has been following its latest offering over the past week …