It was a strange year for Alec Bohm. He went into his walk year with the full knowledge that the Phillies had tried to replace him with Bo Bichette over the winter and almost did until an eleventh hour offer from the Mets lured Bichette away. It was at least the second straight offseason where the Phillies’ desire to trade or otherwise replace Bohm was an open secret.
Things only got more unusual once the season actually started. Minutes before first pitch on Opening Day, it was reported that Bohm
was suing his parents, alleging that the pair mismanaged his finances. The two parties eventually settled the case out of court in September, but that was after months of reports regarding the intimate details of the case.
On the field, Bohm struggled mightily in the first half of the season, resulting in his being dropped to eighth in the batting order on occasion. However, Bohm turned it around in the second half, emerging as one of the Phillies’ best hitters in the latter half of the season. But the second half surge still wasn’t enough to salvage his full season numbers from being one of the worst years of his career.
2026 stats: 155 games, .249/.315/.383, .698 OPS, 15 home runs, 88 RBIs, 87 OPS+, 90 wRC+, 0.2 fWAR
What went right
Again, Bohm’s second half is the only thing that prevented his season from being the definitive worst of his seven-year career. The 30-year-old hit .298 with a .794 OPS after the All-Star break and cut his strikeout rate from 15% to 12.5% while raising his walk rate from 6.7% to 9%. August was by far Bohm’s best month, as he hit .327 with an .830 OPS while being displaced defensively in the wake of the Luis Arraez trade that moved Bohm to first and Bryson Stott to third.
Bohm also continued to be one of the Phillies’ best hitters with runners in scoring position, even with his poor first half. His .958 OPS with RISP was the second best on the Phillies and 19th best among all qualified hitters across baseball while his .347 batting average was good for 13th best in MLB.
The highlight of Bohm’s year came in Game 2 of the Wild Card series against the Braves, as his opposite field solo home run in the tenth inning proved the difference in the Phillies lone win of the postseason.
What went wrong
It’s hard to overstate just how bad Bohm was in April. He hit .151 with a .426 OPS in the season’s inaugural month, with his 16 wRC+ being the third worst of any qualified hitter. He rebounded a bit in May and June, but even then, Bohm was only hitting .215 with a .632 OPS by the time of the All-Star break in mid-July. His dreadful April set the tone for his season, as Bohm was often made the whipping boy for the fanbase’s frustrations with the Phillies offense.
Even when Bohm did finally turn a corner, he didn’t do anything to make one believe that he finally took a real, meaningful step forward as a hitter in his last season of team control. He still doesn’t hit for much power despite his big frame, as Bohm’s rate of balls pulled in the air of 9.1% was still well below league average despite being an uptick from 2025’s 7.7%. Since entering the league in 2020, Bohm’s .412 slugging percentage ranks 52nd out of 63 players who have appeared in at least 800 games over that span.
Final Grade: D–
Bohm’s second half is the only thing that prevented this grade from being an F. Despite that performance, he still finished as one of the worst everyday hitters in the majors. If you take a step back and look at the big picture, Bohm is now seven years into his career, meaning he is as close to a finished product as can be reasonably expected. The mountains of evidence compiled in his career to this point paint a pretty clear picture of Bohm as an average at best hitter with below average power who plays below average at best defense on the infield corners. That is a player that can help some teams, but it is not someone who you want consistently hitting in the upper half of your order.
What exactly is that type of player worth? That will be an interesting question to follow this winter as Bohm enters an offseason of uncertainty. It is widely assumed that the Phillies will not bring him back as Bohm enters free agency, but the back injury to top prospect Aidan Miller has made the transition appear much less seamless. Add in the fact that utility infielder and backup third baseman Edmundo Sosa is also a free agent, and the Phillies’ depth at the hot corner suddenly looks lacking. The safe bet is that Bohm is playing elsewhere in 2027, but until the Phillies either commit to Miller at the start of the season or find some other stopgap until he is deemed ready, a reunion with Bohm cannot be definitively ruled out despite the team’s apparent attitudes toward him in recent offseasons.
