Taijuan Walker was one of the feel-good stories of the 2025 Phillies’ first half. Booed in the spring, and in the home opener, Walker pitched to a 2.30 ERA in his first seven appearances (one of them his first career save) and wound up with a respectable campaign despite shuffling back and forth between the rotation and the bullpen, though it began better than it ended.
Owed $18 million in the last leg of his four-year, $72 million contract, the age-old question is back this offseason: Should the Phillies keep him around another year? Look to dump his salary in a trade?