{"id":350169,"date":"2025-12-15T19:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/350169\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T19:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:37:08","slug":"dodgers-owe-1-06b-in-deferred-money-to-9-players-through-2047-after-edwin-diaz-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/350169\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers owe $1.06B in deferred money to 9 players through 2047 after Edwin D\u00edaz deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Edwin D\u00edaz won\u2019t receive all of his $69 million from the Dodgers until 2047, with the closer\u2019s deal raising deferred payment obligations for the two-time World Series champions<\/a> to more than $1.06 billion due to nine players.<\/p>\n

As part of the three-year contract announced Friday,<\/a> D\u00edaz gets a $9 million signing bonus payable on Feb. 1, according to terms obtained by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

He receives a $14 million salary next year and $23 million in each of the following two seasons. The Dodgers will defer $4.5 million annually.<\/p>\n

D\u00edaz\u2019s deferred money is payable in 10 equal installments each July 1. The 2026 money is due from 2036-45, the 2027 money from 2037-46 and the 2028 money from 2038-47.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has a $6.5 million conditional team option for 2029 with no buyout. The option could be exercised if he has a specified injury through the end of the 2028 season and he does not end the season or postseason healthy, or if he has a specified surgery.<\/p>\n

If the conditional option is exercised, he could earn $2.5 million in performance bonuses for 2029 based on games finished: $750,000 each for 45 and 50 games and $1 million for 55.<\/p>\n

D\u00edaz gets a hotel suite on road trips and will make a charitable contribution of 1% of his income.<\/p>\n

His deferred payments raise the Dodgers\u2019 total to $1,064,500. Their high point due in a year is $102.3 million in both 2038 and 2039.<\/p>\n

Ohtani, Betts, Snell and Freeman among others owed deferred<\/p>\n

Los Angeles also owes deferred payments to two-way star Shohei Ohtani<\/a> ($680 million from 2034-43), outfielder\/infielder Mookie Betts<\/a> ($115 million in salaries from 2033-44 and the final $5 million of his signing bonus payable from 2033-35), left-hander Blake Snell<\/a> ($66 million from 2035-46), first baseman Freddie Freeman<\/a> ($57 million from 2028-40), catcher Will Smith<\/a> ($50 million from 2034-43) and utilityman Tommy Edman<\/a> ($25 million from 2037-44), reliever Tanner Scott<\/a> ($21 million 2035-46) and outfielder Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a> ($32 million from 2030-39).<\/p>\n

Bullpen was Dodgers\u2019 weakness this year<\/p>\n

A three-time All-Star who turns 32 on March 22, D\u00edaz had 28 saves in 31 chances last season with a 6-3 record and 1.63 ERA for a disappointing Mets team that failed to reach the playoffs despite spending the second most behind the Dodgers<\/a>. He struck out 98 in 66 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

D\u00edaz has 253 saves in 294 chances over nine seasons with Seattle (2016-18) and New York. D\u00edaz agreed to a $102 million, five-year contract with the Mets<\/a> after the 2022 season, a deal that included deferred money payable through 2042. He gave up $38 million he would have been owed in the final two years with the Mets.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Edwin D\u00edaz won\u2019t receive all of his $69 million from the Dodgers until 2047,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,4034,5781,485,32129,12215,168181,1187,591,6784,76512,6590,1025,1026,5149,85,5787,10222,10219,10221],"class_list":["post-350169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baseball","tag-blake-snell","tag-california","tag-edwin-diaz","tag-freddie-freeman","tag-local-news-for-apple","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-mlb-world-series","tag-mookie-betts","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sports","tag-tanner-scott","tag-teoscar-hernandez","tag-tommy-edman","tag-will-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}