{"id":90241,"date":"2024-11-26T23:22:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T04:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=90241"},"modified":"2024-11-26T23:22:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T04:22:29","slug":"blake-snell-signs-with-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/11\/26\/blake-snell-signs-with-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers Agree To 5-Year, $182 Million Deal With Blake Snell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell will sign a 5-year, $182 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers, per Jeff Passan<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Left-hander Blake Snell and the Los Angeles Dodgers are in agreement on a five-year, $182 million contract, pending physical, sources tell me and <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jorgecastillo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@jorgecastillo<\/a>. The World Series champions get the two-time Cy Young winner in the first nine-figure deal of the winter.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1861620974631915737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Snell will reportedly defer some money in the deal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dodgers\u2019 deal with Blake Snell includes some deferred money, source tells The Athletic. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZO6X9C4b1k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZO6X9C4b1k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabian Ardaya (@FabianArdaya) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabianArdaya\/status\/1861621801966768442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Snell famously lingered on the free agent market <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/03\/21\/giants-history-blake-snell\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">through the beginning of spring training<\/a> last offseason. However, many expected a healthier market for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/11\/15\/two-time-cy-young-winner\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">free agent southpaw<\/a> this winter after another great performance. Fortunately for him, the Snell finally secured a big-money, long-term deal this time around.<\/p>\n<h2>Dodgers Signs Blake Snell<\/h2>\n<p>Many might expect a reigning Cy Young winner to cash in big as a free agent. For Snell, his payday will come one year later after an excellent three-month stretch. With the San Fransico Giants last year, Snell produced a 3.12 ERA (124 ERA+) with 145 punchouts in 104 innings. Not only did his 34.7% strikeout rate rank amongst MLB&#8217;s best, but he also excelled at inducing weak contact.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Before tonight, Blake Snell had only recorded 5 outs after the 7th inning his entire career<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, he has a 114 Pitch No Hitter <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StoolBaseball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@StoolBaseball<\/a><br \/>\n<a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BtuJbNu0pj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/BtuJbNu0pj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barstoolsports\/status\/1819561303045738801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Though the veteran started the season slowly after signing late, he dominated after returning from a second injured list stint on July 9. In his final 14 starts, Snell tossed 80 1\/3 innings with a 1.23 ERA, 114 strikeouts, and 30 walks. His 3.36 BB\/9 ratio during this stretch was a vast improvement over the 4.95 BB\/9 ratio he supported during his award-winning 2023.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Snell won the second Cy Young award of his career after posting a 2.25 ERA (187 ERA+) with 234 strikeouts in 180 innings. Unfortunately, the veteran carried a reputation for being talented, yet inconsistent.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to 2024, Snell had a career ERA+ of 128. That number dropped to 109- only 9 percent better than average- in his non-Cy Young seasons. Of course, any player&#8217;s overall numbers will decline if their best seasons are omitted. But this shows that teams didn&#8217;t want to pay Snell like an ace when he just as easily could produce like a number two or three starter.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers will sign Snell clearly expecting his inconsistent nature to stay in the past. It&#8217;s not unheard of for players, especially left-handed starters, to unlock something after the age of 30. Late bloomers happen, and Snell appears to be one.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credits: Katie Stratman \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell will sign a 5-year, $182 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers, per Jeff Passan. &nbsp; Left-hander Blake Snell and the Los Angeles Dodgers are in agreement on a five-year, $182 million contract, pending physical, sources tell me and @jorgecastillo. The World Series champions get the two-time Cy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4683,"featured_media":90521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1071,35],"tags":[1122],"class_list":["post-90241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dodgers","category-mlb","category-news","tag-blake-snell"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}