You’d have to go back a few years to find a Phillies player who has made a social media impact like Alec Bohm made early in his career as a Phillie. But, if you remember, most players who have made big social headlines for non-nefarious reasons have been big stars. For instance, go back to Chase Utley, Jimmy Rollins, and Jonathan Papelbon (well Pap’s grab was a bit nefarious). All of these players made big impacts on social media as a Phillies player and all were outstanding players.
Fast forward to the Alec Bohm era, he made a couple of bad plays, heard it from the Phillie fan phaithful and proceeded to proclaim, “I f@@@ing hate this place’. That was way back in Bohm’s first year as an upcoming 3rd baseman, uttered on April 11, 2022. Each time ESPN broadcasts a game from Philly, we have to hear the story again and again. Once on social media or the internet for that matter, something like this will never just fade away.
Recent rumblings that Bohm is ‘for sale’ by the Phillies have made their way to the press, via either speculation or otherwise, and suddenly it looks as if Bohm may be on the trading block. I don’t believe this. Bohm’s last season was stellar, even with his injury, he put up numbers that helped this team win the National League East pennant. How can you possibly trade away an upcoming superstar like Bohm appears to be, with only 15 HR on the season but a respectable 97 RBI on the year?
The Phils have control for one more year of Alec Bohm at $8.1 million for the 2025 season. I think the Phils might want to see what Bohm has for this ’25 season after the clutch hitting we saw from him last year. Again, the Phils shouldn’t be looking to replace Alec with a high-priced free agent, with a team that has plenty of those already. Sort of the same with pursuing Juan Soto in my opinion, just don’t do it.
