Before Sunday afternoon’s deadline, the Philadelphia Phillies elected to extend a qualifying offer to catcher J.T. Realmuto, but not to shortstop Didi Gregorius.
Mark Feinsand of MLB.com was the first to report that Realmuto would be among those to receive the qualifying offer, while Jim Salisbury of NBC Sports Philadelphia was on Gregorius not being extended the same offer.
It was a formality that the Phillies would extend a one-year/$18.9 million qualifying offer to Realmuto, just as it’s a certainty that he’ll decline it.