JT Realmuto Phillies Agreement | MLB.com

JT Realmuto is back in Philadelphia after all. The star catcher and the Phillies have agreed to a five-year, $ 115.5 million deal, a source told MLB.com on Tuesday. The club did not confirm the deal.

JT Realmuto is back in Philadelphia after all. The star catcher and the Phillies have agreed to a five-year, $ 115.5 million deal, a source told MLB.com on Tuesday. The club did not confirm the deal.

The contract as reported has the highest annual average value (AAV) for a receiver in MLB history at $ 23.1 million, surpassing the $ 23 million AAV in Joe’s 2010 contract extension. Mauer with the Twins. The Realmuto deal also sets a new record for a free agent contract for a wide receiver, surpassing Brian McCann’s $ 85 million pact with the Yankees in 2013.

The deal includes a salary of $ 20 million this year, but with $ 10 million deferred, to be paid in installments of $ 5 million in 2026 and 27, and a salary of $ 23.875 million per year from 2022 to 25 A $ 1 million relocation payment is included in the event Realmuto is traded, according to a source.

As one of the best backstops in the game, Realmuto was a flagship of free agency. In 2019, his first season with the Phillies after a successful Miami trade, he won a Gold Glove and a Silver Slugger Award. In 20, he posted the best offensive numbers of his career with 123 OPS + and 11 home runs in 195 home plate appearances, while controlling the running game as well as almost anyone in the Majors.

Realmuto declined the Phillies’ $ 18.9 million qualifying offer, choosing to test the free market for the first time in his career. After being drafted by the Marlins in the third round of the 2010 draft, he spent the first five years of his career in Miami before being sent to Philadelphia in a package that included right-hander Sixto Sánchez.

The 29-year-old catcher is a career .278 hitter with 111 OPS +, and he’s a two-time All-Star winner and two-time Silver Slugger. From 2017 to 19, FanGraphs’ 15.0 wins over Realmuto’s substitution placed first among catchers and 13th among all positional players.