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Last March, just a few months after acquiring him in a trade from the Arizona Diamondbacks, the St. Louis Cardinals inked first baseman Paul Goldschmidt to a five-year/$130 million extension. That moment increasingly feels relevant to the Philadelphia Phillies.
The Phillies elected to have J.T. Realmuto, who they acquired a couple months after the Cardinals landed Goldschmidt, play out his second to last season of arbitration without working on a long-term deal. Now, after a monster 2019 season, Realmuto’s camp appears to be using Goldschmidt’s deal as a comp as the two sides attempt to hammer out a long-term deal.