It has been twelve days since the final out of Game-5 of the 2024 World Series was recorded, making the Los Angeles Dodgers the Champions of baseball.
Twelve days.
And 32-year-old outfielder Teoscar Hernández still hasn’t been re-signed by the Dodgers for the 2025 season.
As Dodgers fans well know, the extremely popular (again) free-agent Cotui, Dominican Republic native signed a one-year / $23.5 million contract with the Dodgers on January 12, 2024. After doing so, Teo had the best season of his now nine-year MLB career, posting an excellent .272/.339/.501/.840 slash line, with 33 home runs and 99 RBIs, second best on the team in both categories to Shohei Ohtani‘s 54 and 130 respectively.
Although the Dodgers extended Hernández a qualifying offer of $21.05 million prior to last Monday’s deadline and he has until has until 1 p.m. PT on November 19 to accept or decline that offer (which he is expected to decline), he is receiving a lot of interest from several other teams, most notably the Boston Red Sox and Baltimore Orioles. That said, he has made it abundantly clear that he wants to return to the Dodgers in 2025.
“My hopes are really high,” Hernández told reporters during last week’s World Series parade in downtown Los Angeles. “Like I’ve said before, the Dodgers are the priority. Obviously. I’m going to do everything in my power to come back.”
It’s your move, Dodgers. As Nike used to say:
Play Ball!
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