Gonsolin, who missed all of 2024 after Tommy John surgery, will be paid the same salary in 2025
The Dodgers agreed to terms with both of their pitchers eligible for salary arbitration coming off missing the entire 2024 season after elbow surgery. Tony Gonsolin was the latest, inking a $5.4 million contract for 2025 on Friday, per multiple reports.
Robert Murray of FanSided was first to report the Gonsolin pact, and was quickly followed by Mark Feinsand of MLB.com ahead of Friday’s deadline to tender contracts to players on the 40-man roster.
Like Dustin May’s one-year, $2.135 million deal earlier on Friday, Gonsolin’s salary for 2025 will match his 2024 pay after missing the entire season.
Gonsolin had Tommy John surgery on September 1, 2023, which knocked him out for all of this season. The right-hander was able to get a month’s worth of minor league rehab to end this season, and was pitching in simulated games during October as the Dodgers readied during the postseason.
With four years, 152 days of service time, Gonsolin was eligible for arbitration for the third of four years this offseason. He was a Super Two player prior to the 2023 season — among the top 22 percent of players with at least two years but not yet three years of service time — and that offseason signed a two-year deal through 2024.
Gonsolin earned $3.25 million in 2023 as part of that deal, with a base salary of $3.4 million set for 2024. He was able to add $2 million to his 2024 salary by making 20 starts during 2023 before succumbing to his elbow injury, which made his salary this season $5.4 million.
With May and Gonsolin now signed for 2025, six more Dodgers are eligible for salary arbitration this winter — relievers Michael Kopech, Brusdar Graterol, Evan Phillips, Alex Vesia, and Anthony Banda, plus second baseman Gavin Lux.