The Los Angeles Dodgers are exploring different right-handed hitting choices except for free agent Teoscar Hernández, in response to The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal.
“The potential choices, in response to sources briefed on the crew’s discussions, embody infielder Ha-Seong Kim in free company and Chicago Cubs proper fielder Seiya Suzuki, Chicago White Sox middle fielder Luis Robert Jr. and others in commerce,” Rosenthal wrote. “How critical the Dodgers are about these pursuits – and the way reasonable a few of them could be – stays to be seen.”
Firstly of the offseason, a reunion between the Dodgers and Hernández appeared inevitable. After Juan Soto signed his landmark cope with the New York Mets, the overall consensus about Hernández’s destiny in free company rapidly modified.
Dodgers Nation first reported that the stall in negotiations was due to cash. Moreover, Dodgers Nation additionally reported that Hernández didn’t need any deferrals in his contract. President of baseball operations Andrew Friedman publicly mentioned the group doesn’t make the most of deferrals in each deal orchestrated. The deferrals doubtless aren’t the primary subject with the Hernández negotiations, however extra so the annual common worth of the contract and the signing bonus.
Hernández is eyeing a three-deal value $66-$72 million. Because the Dodgers discover different choices for right-handed hitters, the price of the choice free brokers are doubtless taking part in an enormous position within the final end result. Rosenthal additionally signifies the Dodgers may very well be trying round because of the chance Hernández chooses to signal with one other crew such because the Toronto Blue Jays or the Boston Crimson Sox.
On the Winter Conferences, Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts spoke concerning the actuality of shedding Hernández.
“It could be robust,” Roberts mentioned when requested about probably shedding and changing Hernández. “Clearly I’m an enormous fan of Teo. Now we have an awesome relationship. His phrases, he liked every thing about being a Dodger, and I’m all the time going to be a Teo fan. There’s not a complete lot of men that may begin 157, 158 ballgames and put up after which to be that productive. You then layer on being in an enormous market, serving to us win a championship. So these gamers don’t come round fairly often.
“It could be arduous for me to not see him coming again.”
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