Trea Turner Could Drop in Phillies Order After 65 wRC+
trea turner is slumping hard enough that the Phillies may move him down in the batting order. He is 152nd out of 156 qualified hitters with a 65 wRC+, and the club is weighing whether that production still belongs near the top of the lineup.
Mattingly’s Bohm Template
Don Mattingly has already handled this kind of problem once this season. When Alec Bohm was struggling, he took two days off and moved him down in the batting order, telling him to “catch his breath.”
The result was not a benching that buried Bohm. After the adjustment, he hit.281/.326/.504 in 129 plate appearances, which is why the Phillies may look at that same route again with Turner now in the same kind of stretch.
Turner Near the Top
Turner remains one of the initial three options the Phillies send to the plate, but the numbers around him have changed the conversation. A 65 wRC+ places him near the bottom of the qualified-hitter pool, and that is the friction point for a lineup built around getting production early.
A move down would not remove him from the order entirely. It would simply change where the club asks him to start an inning, while the Phillies try to keep the top of the lineup from being dragged down by his current form.
Bohm as Second-Hole Fit
If Turner slides, Alec Bohm looks like the best candidate to hit second because of the team’s dearth of right-handed options. That keeps the structure intact without forcing the Phillies into a spot that does not fit the roster they have available.
J.T. Realmuto is not the answer there. There is no way the Phillies would hit him second in this lineup, which leaves Bohm as the cleaner fit if the order gets reshuffled around Turner’s slump.
For now, the practical change is simple: Turner’s place near the top is no longer locked in, and the Phillies have a recent example of how quickly they can respond when a bat stalls. Bohm’s rebound showed the club it can make a midstream adjustment and get results without abandoning the player.
