{"id":502395,"date":"2026-01-02T04:31:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/502395\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T04:31:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:31:23","slug":"philadelphia-phillies-fans-will-be-intrigued-by-this-new-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/502395\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Phillies Fans Will be Intrigued by This New Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Outside of re-signing Kyle Schwarber, the Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> have been pretty quiet this winter. They signed Adolis Garcia for the outfield, but that has pretty much been it.<\/p>\n

Most are expecting the Phillies to also re-sign catcher J.T. Realmuto, but even that does not appear to be a guarantee at this point.<\/p>\n

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Philadelphia is clearly watching its payroll, which is why Dave Dombrowski is not expected to pursue top-tier free agents like Kyle Tucker and Cody Bellinger.<\/p>\n

But could the Phillies ultimately alter their strategy as we get deeper into the offseason?<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Jeff Passan isn’t necessarily counting on it, but he isn’t ruling it out, explaining Philadelphia’s situation to a fan during a question and answer session on Threads.<\/p>\n

“It’s possible, but I don’t know that they’d be at the top of the list right now for teams going out and paying retail on bats,” Passan wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The next part of Passan’s answer will definitely raise some ears in Philly.<\/p>\n

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Kyle Tucker. Credit:\u00a0David Banks-Imagn Images.<\/p>\n

“We’re at the point in the winter where players know spring training starts in less than seven weeks and are starting to get a little twitchy,” Passan added. “Prices change, and when prices change, so too do the teams involved. If the Phillies feel like they can pluck a player on the cheap, I don’t think they’ll hesitate to do so.”<\/p>\n

So perhaps a run at one of the better free agents isn’t completely out of the realm of possibility?<\/p>\n

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Not only could the Phillies use another bat, but they could also stand to bring in another starting pitcher, especially with Ranger Suarez looking like a goner.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia will also likely be without Zack Wheeler to start the 2026 campaign as he recovers from thoracic outlet syndrome.<\/p>\n

The Phillies have won 95-plus games each of the last two seasons, but they were bounced from the NLDS both years, so changes seem necessary.<\/p>\n

The problem is that Philadelphia does not really have the financial capacity to make those alterations right now, particularly after getting slapped with a $56 million luxury tax bill.<\/p>\n

We’ll see if the Phillies decide to jump back into the bidding at some point in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Outside of re-signing Kyle Schwarber, the Philadelphia Phillies have been pretty quiet this winter. They signed Adolis Garcia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2397],"tags":[3418,5,1365,554,113,5924,81,29,4,144,25,4216,40,90,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-502395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-phillies","8":"tag-adolis-garcia","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-cody-bellinger","11":"tag-dave-dombrowski","12":"tag-j-t-realmuto","13":"tag-jeff-passan","14":"tag-kyle-schwarber","15":"tag-kyle-tucker","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-philadelphia","18":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","19":"tag-philadelphiaphillies","20":"tag-phillies","21":"tag-ranger-suarez","22":"tag-zack-wheeler"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115823633528865820","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}