The search for the right infield corner continues with a young Phillie reportedly getting shopped.

Every post needs to start with the disclaimer that the Yankees need to bring back Juan Soto, and still add a piece or two more. We’ve spent a lot of time discussing the likes of Cody Bellinger and LaMonte Wade Jr., as well as the problems with relying on Ben Rice or DJ LeMahieu. Reporting in recent weeks has suggested that Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski is looking to shake up a roster that hasn’t lived up to its 2022 NL pennant highs, and that includes dangling Alec Bohm on the market.

Bohm, 28, has two years remaining of team control, making him likely the most expensive of the Bellinger-Wade-Bohm triad. He’s also shown a three-year trend of improvement at the plate, and gives the Yankees the ability to have him at third or first. While fans and the org seem to be higher on Caleb Durbin than most outside scouts are, should he stumble at second base, Bohm gives the Yankees the flexibility to move Jazz Chisholm Jr. back to the more familiar keystone. Bohm’s 6-foot-5 frame also makes him an attractive target at first base — indeed, he played 15 games at the spot in 2024.

Bohm is a bit of a funky hitter, coming off a 115 wRC+, 3.5 fWAR season in Philly that also saw him cool down in the second half. A walk rate of just seven percent doesn’t exactly fit in with the Yankee MO at the dish, but he makes an extraordinary amount of contact. He’s in the 86th percentile in MLB in whiff rate, 92nd in strikeout rate, and 95th in squared up. When he swings, he hits the ball and does it more in a line-to-line fashion, with 44 doubles against just 15 home runs last year:

Bohm is the kind of player that compliments high-OBP, high-power hitters like Juan Soto and Aaron Judge, but the exact fit would yet to be determined. I’m a big fan of having Soto, Judge, and Giancarlo Stanton all hitting together 2-3-4, while Bohm hit cleanup 102 times for the Phillies in 2024. I don’t love the idea of a line-to-line doubles hitter behind Stanton, since we’ve seen how impacted Big G is on the basepaths.

Still, sometimes the answer is just get good hitters into as many lineup spots as possible and worry about the exact order later. Landing Bohm would mean adding an estimated $8 million as he’s in his second year of arbitration, and a notable prospect package. There’s been reporting that the Mariners are extremely interested, with the Phillies expecting to carve out some of Seattle’s pitching talent in a return. Bohm isn’t worth a George Kirby or Logan Gilbert, but that the Mariners are willing to part with some of their deep pitching advantage for Alec shows the kind of waters the Yankees would be swimming in.

Despite once being the third overall pick in the MLB Draft, Bohm isn’t really a star — more one of those extremely solid players that checks a lot of boxes. He raises the floor in the way that Soto returning raises the ceiling, but he’s going to cost the Yankees considerably more than the other guys we’ve kicked around to fill the hole at first base.