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It’s OK for the Phillies to overpay for J.T. Realmuto

No one wants to be left holding the bag on a bad contract. No one wants to be the Los Angeles Angels reluctantly gripping the last six years of a truly onerous Albert Pujols deal, no one wants to be the Detroit Tigers, suffering through the end of the hideous Miguel Cabrera contract, and no one in Philadelphia wants to see a repeat of the Ryan Howard extension, which paid out $125 million for five years of the great slugger’s decline.

The Phillies have an interesting decision to make with regard to J.