Dodgers To Sign Edwin Diaz

The Dodgers and right-hander Edwin Diaz have agreed to terms on a contract, reports Will Sammon of The Athletic. Joel Sherman and Jon Heyman of the New York Post reported not long before the agreement that Los Angeles had been showing interest in Diaz, who’s represented by Wasserman.

For the Dodgers, Diaz represents the most on-the-nose means of addressing a problem that nearly doomed them in the postseason: a lack of reliable bullpen help. Injuries to Evan Phillips, Brusdar Graterol and others left the Dodgers with a thin enough stock of trustworthy relievers that L.A. turned to Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow and Yoshinobu Yamamoto (one day after he threw nearly 100 pitches) in pivotal high-leverage settings during their World Series run. That they even progressed to the World Series was largely attributable to historic performances from starters Yamamoto, Snell, Glasnow and Shohei Ohtani in the postseason’s earlier rounds.

More to come.