Dodgers Batting Champions Struggle with High Ticket Prices at Start of Season
The Dodgers second year guy may start the season in the minors.
Dodgers' $12. 5M All-Star, World Series champion in serious danger of missing Opening Day roster originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here .
The Los Angeles Dodgers are known for landing some of the biggest names in free agency and rebuilding for another run at the World Series. This offseason, it seemed like Edwin Diaz would be the marquee signing — until the Dodgers won the bidding war for Kyle Tucker. “Kyle Tucker, the consensus best player available in free agency, agreed to join the Dodgers on Thursday, sources told ESPN, a little more than a month after star closer Edwin Diaz did the same.
Tucker's deal is for four years at $240 million and includes opt-outs after the second and third seasons, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan and Jesse Rogers,” ESPN’s Alden Gonzalez wrote. During Spring Training, several Dodgers have been participating in the World Baseball Classic. Shohei Ohtani didn’t pitch for Team Japan, but he kept the Dodgers updated on his bullpen sessions.
“Obviously, he’s not in real spring training, Cactus League games,” pitching coach Mark Prior said. “But he is getting the volume and the workload, and I think the intensity, the most he can get out of it, is showing up in the velocity. He’s in the mid-90s.