Phillies avoid arbitration hearings with six players, including Alec Bohm and Ranger Suárez

With the six arbitration cases settled, the Phillies’ luxury-tax payroll is projected to be $306 million, a franchise record.

Third baseman Alec Bohm, left, and pitcher Ranger Suarez were among six Phillies players who avoided arbitration Thursday by agreeing on 2025 salaries.Read moreYong Kim / Staff Photographer

by Scott Lauber

Published Jan. 9, 2025, 8:38 p.m. ET

There won’t be any arbitration hearings for the Phillies this year.

Faced with a deadline to settle on a 2025 salary or exchange figures with the team and go to arbitration, a half-dozen players — pitchers Ranger Suárez and Jesús Luzardo, third baseman Alec Bohm, second baseman Bryson Stott, outfielder Brandon Marsh, and reserve infielder Edmundo Sosa — agreed to one-year contracts, the Phillies announced Thursday.

Suárez, Bohm, Stott, and Sosa will make $8.8 million, $7.7 million, $3.2 million, and $3 million, respectively, various league sources said. Luzardo and Marsh reportedly will receive $6.225 million and $3 million.

With the six arbitration cases settled, the Phillies’ luxury-tax payroll is projected to be $306 million, a franchise record and north of the highest tax threshold ($301 million). At that level, the Phillies’ would pay an approximately $47 million tariff.

Suárez, whose salary rose from $5.05 million, was eligible for arbitration for the final time. The 29-year-old lefty can be a free agent after the 2025 season.

Bohm, under club control through 2026, agreed on a salary after beating the Phillies in an arbitration hearing last year and winning a $4 million salary judgment. The Phillies were open to trading him this winter in an attempt to change the mix of the lineup. It seems likely now that the 28-year-old All-Star will be in the lineup — perhaps even in the cleanup spot behind Bryce Harper — on opening day.

“This guy is a really good player,” manager Rob Thomson said last month after phoning Bohm to “ease his mind” amid the trade rumors. “We’re not shopping him. But because he’s a good player, there’s a whole lot of interest in him from other teams. Obviously you have to do your homework and talk to people and listen.”

Luzardo, acquired last month in a trade with the Marlins, is also under team control through 2026. Stott and Marsh were eligible for arbitration for the first time and cannot be free agents until at least after the 2027 season.

In November, the Phillies agreed to 2025 contracts with reliever José Ruiz ($1.225 million) and backup catcher Garrett Stubbs ($950,000), both of whom were eligible for arbitration.