There may be apparently no restrict to how a lot the Dodgers will spend on their roster.
Days after including prime lefty reliever Tanner Scott, the reigning World Collection champions had been closing in on a cope with All-Star right-hander Kirby Yates, The Submit’s Jon Heyman confirmed.
All Yates did final 12 months was report a 1.17 ERA with 85 strikeouts and 33 saves throughout 61 ⅔ innings for the Rangers.
The 37-year-old additionally posted a career-best 3.3 wins above alternative (WAR), per Baseball Reference.
The Dodgers had already added a plethora of items to their championship squad and established themselves as super-team villains — partially by convincing gamers to comply with deferred cash of their contracts, a pattern popularized final 12 months by Shohei Ohtani, whose $700 million contract contains $680 million in deferrals.
Scott is amongst those that have agreed to such phrases after touchdown a four-year, $72 million contract Sunday that reportedly contains $21 million in deferrals. The 30-year-old southpaw had a 1.75 ERA and 84 strikeouts in 72 innings final season cut up between the Marlins and Padres.
Los Angeles’ stacked bullpen additionally contains veteran righty Blake Treinen, whom they re-signed to a two-year, $22 million contract earlier this offseason.
The remainder of the Dodgers’ ridiculous offseason spending spree contains:
- LHP Blake Snell, who signed a five-year, $182 million contract.
- RHP Roki Sasaki, the 23-year-old Japanese phenom who needed to signal a minor-league contract with a $6.5 million bonus.
- OF Teoscar Hernandez, whom they re-signed to a three-year, $66 million contract.
- INF/OF Tommy Edman, whom they re-signed to a five-year, $74 million contract.
- OF Michael Conforto, the ex-Met who bought a one-year, $17 million contract.
- INF Hyeseong Kim, a 25-year-old coming over from Korea who signed a three-year, $12.5 million contract.
Their ledger additionally contains Mookie Betts’ $365 million contract, Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s $325 million deal and Freddie Freeman’s $162 million pact.
