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Phillies reportedly sign Trea Turner to 11-year, $300M deal

Updated Dec. 5, 2022 6:31 p.m. ET

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Trea Turner is headed east, again. 

The superstar shortstop is signing with the NL-champion Philadelphia Phillies, per multiple outlets. Turner's reported deal is for 11 years and worth $300 million deal with a full no-trade clause.

Turner, a Silver Slugger in 2022, finished this past season with a .298/.343/.466 batting line while totaling 21 home runs and 100 RBIs for the Los Angeles Dodgers. After a strong year-plus stint with L.A., the two-time All-Star returns to the familiarity of the NL East. 

Turner, 29, spent the first seven-plus seasons of his career with the Washington Nationals, with whom he won a World Series in 2019 and played alongside new Phillies teammate Bryce Harper for four years. The duo will have the better part of a decade to unite on a Fall Classic return.

Turner's signing gives Philly one of the best lineups in the National League, if not all of baseball. It also removes one of the biggest fish from the league's free-agent pond, which still features a few more elite shortstops as the 2022 Winter Meetings commence.

Rowan Kavner wrote this about Turner in November:

While his hard-hit rate dipped and chase rate increased this season, any blemishes in his game were relative given his overall production (.298/.343/.466). Turner never went more than three straight games without a hit, his strikeout rate was never particularly alarming and his speed helped avoid prolonged droughts. He holds each of the Dodgers' four longest hitting streaks — and the team's only three 20-game hit streaks — since the start of the 2021 season, despite not joining the team until August of that year. 
At 29, Turner is slightly older than Correa and Swanson, but the speed and smoothness of his game don't appear to be waning. He ranked fifth in the majors in sprint speed at 30.3 feet per second in 2022. His 21 home runs, while down from his career-high 28 last year, were the second most of his career. 

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