Tommy Edman had a excellent first yr with the Los Angeles Dodgers. The crew is ensuring it will get a couple of extra.
The super-utility guy has correct to a five-year, $74 million guarantee extension with a sixth-year membership choice, the Dodgers introduced Friday. Per ESPN’s Jeff Passan, the offer features a $17 million signing bonus and deferred cash.
The Los Angeles Dodgers have correct on a guarantee extension with IF/OF Tommy Edman for 5 years for $74M in the course of the 2029 season with a membership choice for the 2030 season.
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) November 29, 2024
Edman was once up to now poised to strike independent company next 2025. He now joins Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Blake Snell and Will Smith as Dodgers gamers beneath guarantee via 2029.
The construction is alike to the Dodgers’ alternative important offer of the offseason (thus far), as Snell’five-year, $182 million deal additionally incorporated an important signing bonus and deferred cash. That setup is helping the Dodgers in the case of CBT calculations, with tiny price to the participant because of the up-front cash.
Edman landed with the Dodgers at this yr’s industry cut-off date, becoming a member of the membership in a three-team industry that still noticed reliever Michael Kopech progress to Los Angeles. The industry wound up important for the Dodgers’ playoff run, with Kopech temporarily changing into one of the vital crew’s high-leverage bullpen palms and Edman successful NLCS MVP honors generation offering each flexibility and spotlight performs on protection.
Tommy Edman was once made for the Dodgers
Edman is the uncommon participant who can serve above-average fielding at shortstop, heart garden and 2d bottom, taking part in the previous two all over the Dodgers’ International Form run. The Dodgers are a crew that prioritizes positional flexibility, and Edman provides them that at 3 top rate defensive positions.
He additionally provides them a robust bat, with a catch. Edman is a switch-hitter who obviously has a greater facet, hitting .181/.256/.267 towards right-handed pitchers and .412/.417/.882 towards left-handed pitchers. He too can catch hearth from time to time, akin to when he strike .407/.393/.630 within the NLCS towards the Pristine York Mets.
Shortstop particularly has been a infection place for the Dodgers since Trea Turner left in independent company, such a lot in order that they attempted Mookie Betts on the place this yr. Middle garden isn’t a energy both, with a platoon of Andy Pages and James Outman looming for 2025. Edman figures to peer plethora of day at each in 2025.
Locking ill that roughly piece for the nearest 5 years is essential for the Dodgers, who entered the offseason with a long to-do record in spite of preserving the Commissioner’s Trophy. Extending Edman was once one merchandise, as was once getting a origination pitcher akin to Snell.
Nonetheless difference are every other origination pitcher (the Dodgers actually can not have plethora), a nook outfielder (assume Juan Soto or Teoscar Hernández) and possibly a bullpen arm or two (Blake Treinen is a independent agent). That’s all to mention the crew which has already spent $256 million this offseason is nowhere similar to completed.
