By all accounts, it was an innocent phone call. But Jeff Berry reaching out to new Philadelphia Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski for the first time is newsworthy, even if their first conversation didn’t involve negotiating a new deal for Berry’s most well-known client, J.T. Realmuto.
“His agent actually called me yesterday,” Dombrowski revealed Tuesday. “It really was not a negotiation, it was a ‘Welcome to the Phillies organization.’ I’ve known Jeff Berry for a long time and talked to him, he welcomed me aboard and we talked about my family and talked about his family and said that we would stay in contact.