The Dodgers adopted up their World Collection win with one other aggressive offseason, making many headline-grabbing additions in addition to some much less splashy strikes. Regardless of years of playoff disappointments, they now go into 2025 seen as a juggernaut that’s despised by all different fan bases across the league.
Main League Signings
LHP Blake Snell: 5 years, $182MM (contains conditional membership possibility, $52MM signing bonus and $65MM in deferrals)
LHP Tanner Scott: 4 years, $72MM (contains conditional 2029 membership possibility, $20MM signing bonus and $21MM in deferrals)
OF Teoscar Hernandez: Three years, $66MM (contains 2028 membership possibility, $23MM signing bonus and $23.5MM in deferrals)
RHP Blake Treinen: Two years, $22MM (contains $5MM signing bonus)
OF Michael Conforto: One 12 months, $17MM (contains $8.5MM signing bonus)
RHP Kirby Yates: One 12 months, $13MM
IF Hyeseong Kim: Three years, $12.5MM (contains 2028-29 membership possibility)
LHP Clayton Kershaw: One 12 months, $7.5MM
IF/OF Enrique Hernández: One 12 months, $6.5MM
2025 spending: $185.5MMTotal spending: $398.5MM
Choice Choices
Trades and Claims
Notable Minor League Signings
Extensions
Notable Losses
Jack Flaherty, Walker Buehler, Joe Kelly (nonetheless unsigned), Kevin Kiermaier (retired), Daniel Hudson (retired), Ryan Brasier, Gavin Lux, Diego Cartaya, Connor Brogdon (outrighted), Brent Honeywell Jr. (non-tendered), Zach Logue (non-tendered)
Issues change quick in baseball. The Dodgers completed 2023 on a down be aware, having been swept out of the NLDS by the Diamondbacks. Although that was their eleventh consecutive postseason look, a lot of them had led to heartbreaking trend. Followers of the membership had been in MLBTR’s mentions, calling for supervisor Dave Roberts and president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman to be fired. Followers of different golf equipment had been taunting them for his or her failed makes an attempt to “purchase” a World Collection. However they then signed Shohei Ohtani to a heavily-deferred deal, in addition to grabbing Yoshinobu Yamamoto and plenty of others, finally profitable all of it in 2024.
The membership due to this fact went into the 2024-25 offseason with the wind of their sails and so they did not decelerate. Inside just a few months of their parade, they’d signed one of many high free agent starters, just a few of the highest relievers, some strong outfielders and probably the most notable worldwide beginner since Ohtani.
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