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 heart fielder Luis Robert Jr. and others in commerce,” Rosenthal wrote. “How critical the Dodgers are about these pursuits – and the way practical a few of them could be – stays to be seen.”
At the beginning 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 final 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 stated the group doesn’t make the most of deferrals in each deal orchestrated. The deferrals seemingly aren’t the principle situation with the Hernández negotiations, however extra so the annual common worth of the contract and the signing bonus.
Hernández is eyeing a three-deal price $66-$72 million. Because the Dodgers discover different choices for right-handed hitters, the price of the choice free brokers are seemingly enjoying an enormous position within the final final result. Rosenthal additionally signifies the Dodgers might be wanting round as a result of chance Hernández chooses to signal with one other crew such because the Toronto Blue Jays or the Boston Pink Sox.
On the Winter Conferences, Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts spoke concerning the actuality of dropping Hernández.
“It will be powerful,” Roberts stated when requested about probably dropping and changing Hernández. “Clearly I’m an enormous fan of Teo. Now we have an amazing relationship. His phrases, he cherished all the things about being a Dodger, and I’m all the time going to be a Teo fan. There’s not an entire lot of men that may begin 157, 158 ballgames and publish after which to be that productive. Then you definitely layer on being in an enormous market, serving to us win a championship. So these gamers don’t come round fairly often.
“It will be arduous for me to not see him coming again.”
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