Amid signs that the free agent market is finally starting to wake up from its two-month hibernation, the Phillies made a new nine-digit offer to free agent catcher JT Realmuto.
According to an industry source familiar with the negotiations, the offer went for five years and slightly more than $ 100 million, which is believed to be somewhere in the range where the club was last March, when the trades were interrupted because of MLB’s COVID -19 transactions freeze.
Phillies’ new president of baseball operations, Dave Dombrowski, declined to comment on The Athletic on Friday, saying: “We continue to have an interest in JT. But from the point of view of negotiation, these are things that must be kept confidential. ”
However, Dombrowski confirmed a report by NBC Sports Philadelphia that he personally met Realmuto and his wife in Oklahoma at the end of last month. Sources say the club followed up on its last offer last week …