MLB Rumors: Blake Snell, Dodgers Comply with 5-12 months, $182M Contract After Giants Stint

The Los Angeles Dodgers have agreed to a five-year, $182 million contract with left-handed beginning pitcher Blake Snell, in line with ESPN’s Jeff Passan and Jorge Castillo.

In accordance with The Athletic’s Fabian Ardaya, the deal contains some deferred cash. The 31-year-old additionally will get a $52 million signing bonus, per Jon Heyman of The New York Publish.

Snell himself teased his signing with the Dodgers on Instagram earlier than ESPN’s report, posting a photograph of himself within the staff’s uniform with the caption, “LA 👀.”

Snell signed a two-year, $62 million deal with the Giants final offseason. The contract included a $38.5 million participant choice for 2025, however the southpaw declined it to develop into a free agent, per USA At present’s Bob Nightengale.

Snell went 5-3 with a 3.12 ERA (1.05 WHIP) and 145 strikeouts in 104 innings. Two stints on the injured checklist on account of a left adductor strain and a groin injury held him to twenty begins.

The yr earlier than, he gained his second Cy Younger award, going 14-9 with an MLB-best 2.25 ERA for the San Diego Padres. He struck out 234 batters over 180 innings (32 begins).

At his finest, Snell is a strikeout machine and probably the greatest starters in baseball. The largest knock on him is that he does not go deep into video games, notably averaging simply over 5 innings per begin final yr. However he is normally improbable when on the market, and he retains his staff in ballgames.

So Snell is a transparent asset. If he is capable of keep wholesome and submit 30-plus begins, one other Cy Younger candidacy is not out of the query both.

Heyman reported on Nov. 14 that Los Angeles was “trying into” free-agent pitchers together with Snell, Corbin Burnes and Max Fried.

This was along with the Dodgers’ chase for prized Japanese ace Roki Sasaki.

“Phrase is that assuming they land Sasaki, they will attempt for yet another large pitcher,” Heyman wrote.

Now Snell’s aboard, the World Sequence champions have additional cemented their standing because the Fall Basic favorites for subsequent yr.

The Dodgers had a litany of beginning pitching accidents final yr, and the staff plans to make use of a six-man rotation in 2025. So it makes excellent sense that they’d go after somebody like Snell.

Unsurprisingly, the deep-pocketed Dodgers had been capable of land him, making Los Angeles far more harmful going into subsequent season.