Offseason In Review: Los Angeles Dodgers

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.