Dodgers, Blake Snell agree to $182 million deal for MLB offseason's first big splash: reports

The Los Angeles Dodgers are continuing their spending spree from past year, adjacent aft winning the World Series.

The Dodgers went further into their unlimited pockets and inked Blake Snell to a five-year woody worthy $182 million, according to aggregate reports.

Some different reports besides say, naturally, that the woody is deferred.

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San Francisco Giants pitcher Blake Snell throws during the 2nd inning of a shot crippled against the Cincinnati Reds, Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, successful Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean)

The Dodgers forked up implicit $1 cardinal successful contracts past year, and they person present enactment down the archetypal nine-figure woody successful this offseason, little than 1 period aft winning the Fall Classic.

Snell joined the San Francisco Giants past offseason connected a two-year woody which included an opt-out aft his Cy Young Award-winning 2023 campaign. But teams were frightened to perpetrate to him, leaving him a escaped cause until March.

His play got disconnected to a unsmooth start, arsenic helium had a 9.51 ERA successful his archetypal six starts - helium besides caught an IL stint successful that frame. But, successful his last 14 outings, helium pitched to a miniscule 1.23 ERA, striking retired 114 batters successful 80.1 innings. Understandably so, the Dodgers similar what they spot retired of the lefty.

Blake Snell #7 of the San Francisco Giants pitches during the 3rd inning against the Cincinnati Reds astatine Great American Ball Park connected August 02, 2024 successful Cincinnati, Ohio. (Jason Mowry/Getty Images)

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Los Angeles figures to get Shohei Ohtani backmost successful the rotation, and it remains to beryllium seen the fates of Clayton Kershaw and Walker Buehler - the erstwhile is much apt to enactment successful L.A. and enactment a vocation Dodger, if helium doesn't retire.

But, they besides volition person Tyler Glasnow back, and they are the favorites to onshore Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki, conscionable arsenic they did past twelvemonth with Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

Snell has go 1 of the much under-appreciated arms successful baseball, apt owed to his deficiency to spell heavy successful games. He pitched a no-hitter successful 2024, yet that had been the archetypal clip helium had ever recorded an retired successful the eighth inning successful his career.

His 11.2 K/9 is the champion successful MLB history, and his vocation ERA is simply a 3.19 - though helium lone has 1 All-Star nod, helium is lowkey connected astatine slightest a borderline Hall of Fame trajectory.

San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Blake Snell (7) pitches against the Cincinnati Reds successful the archetypal inning astatine Great American Ball Park.  (Katie Stratman-USA TODAY Sports)

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Snell turns 32 adjacent week, truthful possibly the Dodgers are taking immoderate benignant of hazard - but it's beauteous evident they tin outspend immoderate imaginable mistake they make.

The archetypal large splash goes to the Dodgers…and they astir apt are not done.

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