Dodgers Still Aren’t Out On Top Free Agents, Even After Blake Snell, Tommy Edman

The Los Angeles Dodgers are going full evil empire in the 2024-2025 Major League Baseball offseason. 

Less than a month after winning the 2024 World Series, the Dodgers made the biggest splash of the free agency period to date, signing two-time Cy Young winner Blake Snell to a 5-year, $182 million contract. Snell provides stability and upside to a rotation that needed it. Then on Friday afternoon, ESPN's Jeff Passan reported that they'd agreed to a five-year, $74 million extension with utility man Tommy Edman. For most teams, that'd be a successful offseason on its own.

Not for Los Angeles.

A new report on Friday from The Athletic's Andy McCullough said that the Dodgers are still seen as favorites to sign star Japanese import Roki Sasaki, and are still in on Juan Soto and other top free agents. The best team in baseball might be getting a whole lot better.

"A lot can happen between now and Jan. 15, when the Chiba Lotte Marines can post Sasaki and permit him to sign with a big-league club," McCullough wrote. "And the Dodgers are poised to do a lot, if they so choose, even after adding Snell. The team can still afford Soto. There are potential reunions with Walker Buehler, Teoscar Hernández, Kiké Hernández, Blake Treinen or even Joc Pederson. Andrew Friedman has reached the state of optionality he always craves, in which no moves are off the board and no matter what happens this winter the Dodgers will enter 2025 as the World Series favorites.

"So the Dodgers will be busy between now and January. But when Sasaki hits the market, it still makes the most sense for him to choose Los Angeles, join a rotation that includes Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and deepen the team’s foothold in the Japanese market."

MIAMI - Roki