Dodgers sign two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell to five-year, $182 million deal
The Dodgers won the World Series last season in spite of their short-handed pitching.
Next year, they hope a reinforced staff can be the key to defending their title.
To that end, the Dodgers made a major move Tuesday night, agreeing to a five-year, $182 million contract with two-time Cy Young Award winning pitcher Blake Snell pending a physical, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation not authorized to speak publicly.
The deal, which includes a $52 million signing bonus and some deferred money, was first signaled Tuesday night by Snell, the Shorewood High product who posted to Instagram a photoshopped image of himself in a Dodgers jersey. The caption read “LA” with an eyeballs emoji.
Suddenly, a year after the Dodgers added frontline arms Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tyler Glasnow for more than $1 billion combined, their latest addition was clear. Once again, they had flung their wallet wide open. Once again, they had made a blockbuster addition to their starting rotation.
Snell, 31, has been one of the top left-handed pitchers in the game during his nine-year career. Though he has only once been an All-Star the 6-foot-4 Seattle native won the American League Cy Young with the Tampa Bay Rays in 2018, the National League Cy Young with the San Diego Padres in 2023, and has amassed a 3.19 ERA and 1,368 strikeouts over 211 career starts.
