Very early in the offseason, it became apparent that the Dodgers and Rangers were the favorites for his services. The 2014 NL MVP didn't tip his hand publicly ...
Kershaw would’ve immediately stepped in as the Rangers’ top arm and a veteran voice for their younger starters. The Reds and A’s are generally expected to make impact starters available over the coming weeks. Ken Rosenthal of the Athletic first reported Kershaw was returning to the Dodgers on a one-year deal. Kershaw’s return to L. A. no doubt will come as a disappointment to the Rangers, who had made no secret of their affinity for him. Kershaw and Carlos Rodón were quite arguably the final two top-of-the-rotation starters available in free agency coming into the day. Because they’ll be a repeat payor, the Dodgers would be subject to a 30% tax on every dollar spent between $230MM and $250MM; they’ll be taxed at a 42% rate for expenditures between $250MM and $270MM. As the club showed last season in blowing past all three thresholds, though, that’s not a concern for ownership in certain circumstances. The southpaw missed two months between July and September due to inflammation in his elbow/forearm area. Yet it’s not out of the question the Dodgers keep trying to add there; they showed at last summer’s deadline in acquiring Max Scherzer they’re never afraid to pursue elite talent if the opportunity presents itself. And Kershaw’s peripherals were better, right among the top of the league. Yet there’s little question the Dodgers — again one of the top on-paper contenders in the league — also were motivated to bring him back because they believe he’ll still be an effective pitcher in 2022. He returned to make a few starts but dealt with renewed discomfort in his final regular season outing. It’ll be Kershaw’s fifteenth season in Dodger blue, as the future Hall of Famer returns to the only organization he’s ever known.
Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw shows a look of satisfaction while greeting his teammates in the dugout. Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw will remain with ...
The only addition they had made to the starting rotation was signing Andrew Heaney, a reclamation project, to a one-year deal. Walker Buehler, Julio Urías, Tony Gonsolin and David Price are the club’s other options to start the season as it stands. In the end, it was up to him. He’s the face of the franchise. His offseason home is minutes from Globe Life Field where the Rangers play their games in Arlington. Rangers general manager Chris Young is a close friend. The deal will be official once Kershaw passes a physical.
Major League Baseball has put Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer on administrative through March 19.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge denied the restraining order last August, ruling there was no evidence Bauer would “harm or even have contact” with her and saying she had been “materially misleading” in the petition. Bauer later retweeted a post from Watson: “When you stand on the TRUTH, the LORD will FREE you!” Of the 15 players previously suspended under the policy, all have accepted a settlement in which they agreed not to appeal. Bauer is due $32 million this season; players are not paid during spring training. The league did not handle player business during the lockout. Trevor Bauer will not report to Camelback Ranch this week.
Dodgers minor league players invited to major league spring training camp in 2022 at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Arizona.
Noda led Double-A Tulsa with 29 home runs in 2021. Last pitched in majors in 2020 with Pirates and Braves. Wahl spent 13 days on the Dodgers’ 40-man roster last summer, but didn’t pitch in the majors. Led Triple-A Oklahoma City last year in starts and innings. Started 20 games for Triple-A Oklahoma City last season. Many of these were minor league free agents who signed over the last few months, with links for each signing below.
Clayton Kershaw is returning to Los Angeles. The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal reports Kershaw is signing a one-year contract with the Dodgers for the 2022 ...
In 2021, Kershaw dealt with an elbow injury that cost him a chance to pitch in the postseason. In his 14 seasons with the team, Kershaw has made 379 appearances and compiled a 2.79 ERA in that span. Kershaw has spent his entire career with the Dodgers organization and has been a mainstay in the starting rotation since 2008.
Career Dodger Clayton Kershaw isn't going anywhere just yet. The free-agent lefty -- who has spent all of his 14-year long MLB career with the Dodgers ...
New coaches can begin to develop relationships, new players can meet their new teammates, the works. The deadline for teams to tender their arbitration-eligible (and pre-arbitration-eligible) players a contract for 2022. The player files what he believes he should be paid, and the team files what they believe the player should be paid. Teams want protection in case a player they left exposed in the Rule 5 Draft comes to camp with a new slider or a swing change, and makes himself into a more desirable Rule 5 Draft target. Teams will be looking at possible Rule 5 Draft picks and negotiating arbitration salaries while also scouring the trade market and free agency. Inevitably, a few surprise injuries will be dropped on teams when they reconnect with players, and that could impact their free agent and trade decisions. Inevitably, some will have to wait into the season to sign. The Rule 5 Draft is a mechanism to prevent teams from burying players in the minors indefinitely. The Dodgers need a starter. Each offseason the Rule 5 Draft is held on the final day of the Winter Meetings. This offseason that was Dec. 9, a week after MLB locked out the players, so the Rule 5 Draft never happened. Or, now that minor-league camps are opening, an unprotected player could arrive in spring training and show enough improvement to captivate opposing teams, making himself a Rule 5 target in March even though he might have been barely on any club's radar in December. Executives fear a club would be unfairly penalized if it lost a player while operating under a different set of assumptions than it did at the time of its original decision. Otherwise the COVID policy figures to look a lot like last year's. The two sides just have to shake on it.
Pitchers. RHP Beau Burrows RHP Jon Duplantier RHP Carson Fulmer RHP Sam Gaviglio RHP Ryan Pepiot RHP Yefry Ramirez · Infielders. Eddy Alvarez Andy Burns Michael ...
The MLB lockout ending Thursday afternoon has brought back normalcy and clarity for the sport, but that doesn't yet apply to Trevor Bauer and his status ...
Bauer exercised a player option to remain under contract with the team this year. Have you subscribed to the Dodger Blue YouTube channel? I just don’t know that.
The Los Angeles Dodgers have agreed to a one-year deal with left-handed starter Clayton Kershaw, sources told The Athletic. The agreement is pending a ...
Kershaw, who turns 34 on March 19, has been one of the top pitchers in baseball throughout his 14-year career, all spent with the Dodgers. Though he pitched well in 2021, with a 10-8 record and 3.55 ERA while striking out over a batter per inning, he only pitched 121 ⅔ innings — his lowest total in a full season. The Los Angeles Dodgers have agreed to a one-year deal with left-handed starter Clayton Kershaw, sources told The Athletic. The agreement is pending a physical.
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said it would be “very strange” if Los Angeles opened Spring Training without franchise icon Clayton Kershaw ...
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ESPN's Buster Olney believes that the Dodgers could be taking a look at shortstop Trevor Story during a frenetic 2022 free agency period.
If Story is healthy, he could be an absolute force at the plate for whatever team he plays for this coming year. The Dodgers need a shortstop. Story’s battle with elbow inflammation last season has given teams pause says Olney. It could also open the door to a short-term contract. The starting rotation needs to be beefed up, but the Dodgers also need to replace Corey Seager’s bat in the lineup. “I’m kinda watching the Dodgers on him Tim. I think there’s a strong sense in the industry that Trea Turner is a short-timer with the Dodgers. He’s not going to be a guy who’s with them beyond 2022. Now, free agency is here and the Dodgers, who are always willing to upgrade, are surely on the hunt for some roster upgrades.
The Dodgers 2021 Minor League Pitcher of the Year Hyun-il Choi is hoping to take another big step in 2022.
“All the best players play in MLB and all the best players have been in the minor-league system. If I go [and play professionally in] Korea, it’s really hard to go to MLB. You have to be the best player in the KBO for, like, eight years and then go to MLB. That’s too hard for me. Dodgers pitching prospect Hyun-il Choi is just 21-years-old, but has already won a major award.
Former Dodgers pitcher Odalis Pérez died at his home in the Dominican Republic on March 10, 2022. He pitched 10 years in the majors leagues and made an ...
“Odalis Pérez was always kind to me, as we were close in age coming up at the Dodgers.” We’re going to work on it,” Pérez told the Associated Press after beating the Rockies. “Maybe this year or sometime in my career, I’ll throw a no-hitter or a perfect game.” The Cubs’ Corey Patterson led off the seventh with a ground ball that took a bad hop on the way to shortstop Cesar Izturis, and Patterson beat out the throw for a single. In 10 major league seasons, Perez was 73-82 with a 4.46 ERA, a 95 ERA+) in 1,335 innings. “Around 7 p.m., his brother Cristian Pérez arrived at the house and found Odalis lying in the patio,” Batista said. “We don’t know yet the cause of his death, but everything seems to indicate Odalis slipped down a ladder.
Los Angeles Dodges announced non-roster invitees to 2022 Spring Training, including top prospects Ryan Pepiot, Kody Hoese and Miguel Vargas.
Each of the five also received a non-roster invite to Spring Training last year. Have you subscribed to the Dodger Blue YouTube channel? Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman previously identified Pepiot as a candidate to make his MLB debut in 2022.
Former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Odalis Pérez tragically passed away at the age of 43 after an accident at his home.
Have you subscribed to the Dodger Blue YouTube channel? The left-hander signed with the Atlanta Braves as an amateur free agent in 1994 and made his MLB debut four years later. Pérez was the club’s Opening Day starter that year and most notably threw the first pitch at Nationals Park.
The Dodgers signed Daniel Zamora to a minor league contract, the left-handed pitcher announced on Twitter.
The left-hander has thrown sliders in 74 percent of his pitches in three years in the majors. Last year with Seattle, the left-hander pitched in four games, allowing four runs in 4⅓ innings, posting a 6.23 ERA and 3.98 xERA. Zamora played high school baseball at Bishop Amat High School in La Puente, roughly 20 miles from Dodger Stadium.
Hi, and welcome to another edition of Dodgers Dugout. My name is Houston Mitchell, and we will get a full 162-game season, even if it does start later than ...
MLB and the MLBPA will jointly develop a statistical method to allocate the funds. Former Dodgers pitcher Odalis Perez, who was with the team from 2002-06, died Thursday at his home in the Dominican Republic after falling off of a ladder. So, there’s work to be done to bolster the rotation. —A draft lottery (to discouraging tanking). The first six selections will be awarded by lottery. Blake Treinen would be the main closer. For the bullpen, Jansen probably won’t be back. Of course, with the DH, players can be moved around more now. —The payroll tax threshold will begin at $230 million and grow to $244 million. —Players not eligible for free agency or arbitration will be eligible to receive money from a $50 million pool of funds to be distributed to the top 100 players based on awards and statistical performance. There will be no reseeding of teams after the first round. In other words, the top seed in each league will host the winner of the 4 vs. The top two division winners receive a first-round bye). The first-round series will be best-of-three, with the division winner with the worst record playing the wild-card team with the worst record, and the other two wild-card teams facing each other.
The Dodgers have announced their list of non-roster guys that will be taking part in Major League Spring Training this year.
Thankfully, Arte Moreno is a terrible owner and pulled out of the deal. Dodgers players are already en route to Camelback Ranch in Glendale to report, and we’re going to see a lot of really good names getting into action in the coming days. The Dodgers are hoping that they can unlock something from his college days in the 28-year-old hurler.
According to Jorge Castillo of The Los Angeles Times, SportsNet LA is planning on sending Joe Davis and Orel Hershiser on the road for the 2022 season.
From Bill Plascke of The LA Times: Seven things the Dodgers need to do now that the lockout is over * “It’s fair to say you’re going to see some new faces here in the next week to 10 days.” Dave Roberts joined SportsNet LA to talk about the long-awaited return of baseball and his expectations to strengthen the Dodgers roster. According to Jorge Castillo of The Los Angeles Times, SportsNet LA is planning on sending Joe Davis and Orel Hershiser on the road for the 2022 season.
Amid the great news of the end of the MLB lockout for baseball fans, heartbreaking news came out of the Dominican Republic on Thursday where MLB insider ...
Have you subscribed to our YouTube Channel yet? Amid the great news of the end of the MLB lockout for baseball fans, heartbreaking news came out of the Dominican Republic on Thursday where MLB insider Hector Gomez reported the passing of former Dodgers pitcher Odalis Perez. According to Gomez, Perez fell from a ladder at his home, suffering a fatal head injury. The left-hander pitched 10 years at the big league level, five of which came with the Dodgers. In Los Angeles, he posted the best numbers of his career, recording a 45-40 record with a 3.94 ERA over 132 games (120 starts). His lifetime record was 73-82 with a career 4.46 ERA. After debuting as a 20-year-old, Perez spent time with the Atlanta Braves, LA, the Kansas City Royals, and the Washington Nationals from 1998-2008.
Odalis Pérez, a left-hander who threw the first pitch at Nationals Park and was an All-Star with the Los Angeles Dodgers during a 10-year career in the ...
After President George W. Bush made a ceremonial toss, Pérez threw the first pitch for real, which Atlanta's Kelly Johnson fouled off. He began that year as the starting pitcher on opening day in Washington's first game at Nationals Park after moving from RFK Stadium. He was 43.
Los Angeles Dodgers have signed left-handed relief pitcher Daniel Zamora, who has MLB experience, to a Minor League contract.
However, it was once again in a small sample of 8.2 innings. Zamora ended up making his MLB debut in 2018 for the Mets and showed some promise in a small sample size. Have you subscribed to the Dodger Blue YouTube channel?
Los Angeles Dodgers All-Star Odalis Perez passed away in tragic fashion on Thursday night at the age of 44, falling from a ladder.
Pérez finished that season 15-10 with a 3.00 ERA, throwing 222.1 innings of excellent baseball. Pérez’s Dodgers career began with the burden of high expectations. He reportedly suffered a blow to the head.
The Dodgers announced 21 players will be among their 2022 non-roster invitees to Major League Spring Training, including eight pitchers, four catchers, five infielders and four outfielders. Top prospects who are part of that group include pitcher Ryan ...