The Los Angeles Dodgers have locked up one in every of their postseason heros. The Dodgers and tremendous utility man Tommy Edman have agreed to a five-year contract extension price $74 million, the workforce introduced Friday. The deal features a membership possibility for a sixth 12 months. ESPN reports there may be additionally a $17 million signing bonus and a few deferred cash.
Edman, 29, joined the Dodgers within the three-team Erick Fedde commerce with the Chicago White Sox and St. Louis Cardinals at this summer time’s deadline. He was scheduled to turn out to be a free agent after the season. This extension now locks him in with the Dodgers from 2025-29 with a membership possibility for 2030. Rumors of an extension surfaced final week. Now it is a accomplished deal.
Wrist surgical procedure and an ankle harm delayed Edman’s 2024 debut till Aug. 19, after he was traded to the Dodgers. He hit .237/.294/.417 with six dwelling runs in 37 regular-season video games with Los Angeles, then slashed .328/.354/.508 in 16 postseason video games en path to the World Collection title. That features an 11 for 27 (.407) with 11 RBI displaying within the NLCS, incomes Edman MVP honors.
Edman primarily performed shortstop following the commerce, although he’s anticipated to shift again to middle subject subsequent season. That’s his greatest place, and the Dodgers will now get to work upgrading the outfield corners. They’re within the combine for prime ranked free agent Juan Soto, and there may be curiosity in a Teoscar Hernández reunion as properly. The Dodgers nonetheless have extra strikes on the way in which this winter.
Earlier this week Los Angeles signed lefty Blake Snell to a five-year contract price $182 million. He joins a star-studded rotation that can also be anticipated to incorporate Tyler Glasnow, Tony Gonsolin, Dustin Might, Shohei Ohtani, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. There may be a number of harm danger in that rotation, so do not be shocked if the Dodgers usher in one other starter in some unspecified time in the future.
The Dodgers went 98-64 and had baseball’s greatest document in 2024. They defeated the New York Yankees in 5 video games within the World Collection. It’s the franchise’s eighth championship and their seventh since shifting to Los Angeles in 1958.
