The Dodgers followed up their World Series win with another aggressive offseason, making many headline-grabbing additions as well as some less splashy moves. Despite years of playoff disappointments, they now go into 2025 viewed as a juggernaut that is despised by all other fan bases around the league.
Major League Signings
- LHP Blake Snell: Five years, $182MM (includes conditional club option, $52MM signing bonus and $65MM in deferrals)
- LHP Tanner Scott: Four years, $72MM (includes conditional 2029 club option, $20MM signing bonus and $21MM in deferrals)
- OF Teoscar Hernandez: Three years, $66MM (includes 2028 club option, $23MM signing bonus and $23.5MM in deferrals)
- RHP Blake Treinen: Two years, $22MM (includes $5MM signing bonus)
- OF Michael Conforto: One year, $17MM (includes $8.5MM signing bonus)
- RHP Kirby Yates: One year, $13MM
- IF Hyeseong Kim: Three years, $12.5MM (includes 2028-29 club option)
- LHP Clayton Kershaw: One year, $7.5MM
- IF/OF Enrique Hernández: One year, $6.5MM
2025 spending: $185.5MM
Total spending: $398.5MM
Option Decisions
- LHP Clayton Kershaw declined $10MM player option (though re-signed on aforementioned $7.5MM deal with incentives)
- Team exercised $5MM club option on IF Miguel Rojas
- Team exercised $3.5MM club option on C Austin Barnes
Trades and Claims
- Traded IF Gavin Lux to Reds for OF Mike Sirota and Competitive Balance Round A draft pick
- Traded C Diego Cartaya to Twins for RHP Jose Vasquez
- Traded OF Dylan Campbell to Phillies for international bonus pool space
- Traded OF Arnaldo Lantigua to Reds for international bonus pool space
- Traded RHP Ryan Brasier and cash to Cubs for PTBNL or cash
Notable Minor League Signings
- Roki Sasaki, Eddie Rosario, David Bote, Michael Chavis, Luis García, Giovanny Gallegos, Chris Okey, Joe Jacques
Extensions
- IF/OF Tommy Edman: Four years, $64.5MM (includes 2030 club option, $17MM signing bonus and $25MM of deferrals)
Notable Losses
- Jack Flaherty, Walker Buehler, Joe Kelly (still 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)
Things change fast in baseball. The Dodgers finished 2023 on a down note, having been swept out of the NLDS by the Diamondbacks. Though that was their 11th consecutive postseason appearance, many of them had ended in heartbreaking fashion. Fans of the club were in MLBTR's mentions, calling for manager Dave Roberts and president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman to be fired. Fans of other clubs were taunting them for their failed attempts to "buy" a World Series. But they then signed Shohei Ohtani to a heavily-deferred deal, as well as grabbing Yoshinobu Yamamoto and many others, eventually winning it all in 2024.
The club therefore went into the 2024-25 offseason with the wind in their sails and they didn't slow down. Within a few months of their parade, they had signed one of the top free agent starters, a few of the top relievers, some solid outfielders and the most notable international amateur since Ohtani.
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Boring team and Roki Sasaki made them even more boring. I hope Roki Sasaki loses 20 games. Now that would be exciting!
0% chance Sasaki will lose 20 games, Princess.
Please don’t feed the trolls.
Digg – Agreed, as long as Roki doesn’t face Kyle Teel in more than one game he will have a winning record.
And they would still win 100 games and another world series.
Get mad!!!!!
Yuki- You are ridiculously repetitive, which would be tolerable if you were correct. But you are wrong, pretty much all the time.
“Drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.” – Dean Wormer
go cry somewhere else
Love ’em or hate ’em, you’ll be watching ’em.
OK, Rob.
Rob Lowe posts here?
Rob Kardashian.
I won’t be watching them.
We all care.
I will be in the house opening week wearing my World Championship cap and t-shirt. It’s going to be a fun day.
“It’s going to be a fun day”…Even when the Pirates, Reds and Marlins come to town, Dodger Stadium at Chavez Ravine is PACKED, jumpin’, energetic and full of celebrities.
That Wednesday Noon start be the Marlins is gonna be the cheapest game to attend by far
I don’t know about the Marlins but Pirates Reds have some exciting players. Rather see Skenes pitch than anyone else in baseball. Green is fun. Cruz Cruz hit ball as harder or harder than anyone. Bubba Ashcraft Burns Lowder coming soon. 2 teams at top of my list to see.
Dream GM
I’ll watch Elly De La Cruz over Oneil Cruz every day of the year, but otherwise I agree with your post completely.
Yeah. “Celebrities”. The ones who see a pitcher throw down the rosin bag and say “That’s a balk!”
I asked my wife if I could attend the Dodgers’ opener on my birthday. She was okay with it until she learned the game would be in Tokyo.
Hah. Nice try!
Take her
It seems she’s already taken.
I’m really excited about Roki this year. In general, I’m excited to follow the Dodgers. I look forward to seeing Roberts manage such a rotation.
What a fun time to be a Dodger fan. Fresh off a World Series Championship, your team wins the off-season championship as well. I would be beaming.
There is Opening Day and “domestic Opening Fay” and “home Opening Day”.
“Opening week” is not a thing except for for those unable or unwilling to get Opening Day tickets. For the rest, it would just be the first week, not Opening Week.
Your post makes no sense. People can call the first week of the season whatever they please.
Time we muted Yucki. Talk about boring.
Agreed. Done. Muted.
Time to mute you.
I can proudly report that he/she/it has muted me.
Win a WS or not, it will be a fun season. Looking forward to 2025 season.
Boring season in my opinion. Completely irrelevant regular season. They will easily win division.
The greatest offseason in MLB history!
162-0!
Swept by the Tigers to begin the season.
Swept by the Tigers to end the season.
160 and 2. They lose a couple games in September resting their players with a 50 game lead in standings.
Biggest thing? Ohtani won’t pitch until June at the earliest. Possibly much later.
Possibly on Mars. You never know.
D++++++++++++++++++ for deferred
Amazing off season. They got the bats. Got the pitching. Just give them the NL west and start the October madness tournament.
Edit: F because they didn’t sign Juan Soto. Being poor and cheap isn’t an excuse.
Soto will be a DH in 3-4 years. Ohtani and Soto can’t both DH. Dodgers can use the Soto money to sign Tucker, Cease and Helsley in the off-season.
They can probably talk to the commissioner about getting a second DH. He’d do it for them.
When referring to Dodgers’ and Cubs’ Opening Day, it helps if posters distinguish between Opening Day and “domestic Opening Day”.
There is no guarantee that Kim is even on the opening day roster, let alone that he is a starter. As of today, the odds seem greater that he starts season on OKC.
Wow! Great offseason for the Dodgers!
Being a Dodger fan has been a great experience. I feel lucky to have grown up a fan of USC, Lakers, Kings hockey but nothing tops what the Dodgers have built in terms of quality experience and reinvesting in talent. My father was kind enough to put a Raiders beanie on me for my first photos so it’s evened my sports fan karma somewhat.
TLDR: Dodgers win
Just reading this collection of comments enhances my belief that the Dodgers had better go at least 109-53 or their ‘fans’ will scream bloody murder.
Sad but so true Leiti. And you can bet that if they have a three-game losing streak in May, we will be reading letters to the LA Times sports section demanding that the team fire Roberts and Friedman.
Your fake outrage is noted.
Eh. I can’t speak for everyone, but everyone I know seemed fine with 98 wins and a division title, and I don’t know why that wouldn’t be true again. Generally, these “YoU HaVe To WiN 130 gAmEs Or It’S a ToTaL fAiLuRe” people are not their “fans.”
Not that I’m particularly rooting for the Dodgers to faceplant and finish 4th in the Division, but after it is acknowledged that flags fly forever, their house of cards got flimsier this offseason. They have 10 stupid contracts:
-Tyler Glasnow
-Michael Conforto
-Max Muncy
-Chris Taylor
-Kirby Yates
-Tannner Scott
-Tommy Edman
-Kike Hernandez
-Miguel Rojas
-Austin Barnes
Blake Snell if he misses any time, Teoscar Hernandez if his decline is sudden, and Hye-Seong Kim if he can’t hit MLB pitching enough, all have enough of a non-zero chance of turning into stupid contracts that it is worth mentioning.
Half the roster or close to it being on a stupid contract becomes more difficult to overcome with each additional stupid contract.
Or they win 120 games and beat whoever in 5 games. The best part of baseball is that you have to play the games.
All you listed would make for a competitive team. Stupid is a term for those
that may be or they’d use words with a bit of foundation. Good luck to you Troy as you have already found there are difficulties.
At least 5 of those contracts are for one year or are expiring and Muncy’s contract is a bargain. Edman is about market value and the others are for premium players. It’s not like they’re hamstrung going forward.