{"id":347274,"date":"2025-12-15T18:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/347274\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T18:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:46:07","slug":"edwin-diaz-deal-pushes-dodgers-deferral-obligations-over-1-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/347274\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwin Diaz deal pushes Dodgers’ deferral obligations over $1 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK \u2014 Edwin D\u00edaz<\/a> won’t receive all of his $69 million from the Dodgers until 2047, with the closer’s deal raising deferred payment obligations for the\u00a0two-time World Series champions\u00a0to more than $1.06 billion due to nine players.<\/p>\n

As part of the\u00a0three-year contract announced Friday,\u00a0D\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’s deferred money is payable in 10 equal instalments 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’ 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, Freeman among others owed deferred<\/p>\n

Los Angeles also owes deferred payments to two-way star\u00a0Shohei Ohtani\u00a0($680 million from 2034-43), outfielder\/infielder\u00a0Mookie Betts\u00a0($115 million in salaries from 2033-44 and the final $5 million of his signing bonus payable from 2033-35), left-hander\u00a0Blake Snell\u00a0($66 million from 2035-46), first baseman\u00a0Freddie Freeman\u00a0($57 million from 2028-40), catcher\u00a0Will Smith\u00a0($50 million from 2034-43) and utilityman\u00a0Tommy Edman\u00a0($25 million from 2037-44), reliever\u00a0Tanner Scott\u00a0($21 million 2035-46) and outfielder\u00a0Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez\u00a0($32 million from 2030-39).<\/p>\n

Bullpen was Dodgers’ 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\u00a0failed to reach the playoffs despite spending the second most behind the Dodgers. 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\u00a0$102 million, five-year contract with the Mets\u00a0after 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Edwin D\u00edaz won’t receive all of his $69 million from the Dodgers until 2047, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-347274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}