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
Trades and Claims
Notable Minor League Signings
Extensions
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.
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