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Phillies Slumping Third Baseman Makes Confident Claim for Rest of 2025 Season

Originally posted on Athlon Sports | By Mike Ostrowski | Last updated Apr 12, 2025 2:15 PM ET

While stuck in the middle of a frustrating slump, Phillies third baseman Alec Bohm is trying to stay positive.

Bohm went hitless again in Friday's loss to the St. Louis Cardinals, dropping him to a lowly 8/53 (.165) on the season. He's had the same number of hits - four - in the last 10 games as he did in his first two.

None of that has shattered his confidence.

"Results are not happening right now," Bohm told NBC Sports Philadelphia's Corey Seidman. "At some point this year, they're gonna happen, and I've got to think for some extended period of time I'm gonna get some luck too. I think when we look up at the end of the year, I'm gonna be right around .280, right around 100 RBIs, right around everywhere I'm supposed to be."

Bohm has hit .280, .274, and .280 again the last three years. Last season, he was second behind only Kyle Schwarber in team RBI. Yet it's been difficult for him to replicate that success early in 2025.

His lack of production has gotten to the point where Phillies manager Rob Thomson moved Bohm down in the lineup. He's hit seventh twice and will bat eighth this afternoon.

While the hits aren't coming in, complaints from fans and critics alike are. Bohm was an offseason trade candidate after his dismal September and October, and his recent performance has brought that opinion up again.

He's doing his best to tone it out.

"The longer you play in the big leagues and the more experience you get, and the more comfortable you get with who you are and that you belong here, the less anything really affects you," Bohm told Seidman. "People are gonna say what they're gonna say."

While Alec deals with the noise, he still has a chance to show that actions speak louder than words. But if he can't, then the action could come from someone else: his manager, cutting his playing time.

This article first appeared on Athlon Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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