{"id":5473,"date":"2024-11-28T08:39:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T08:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=5473"},"modified":"2024-11-28T08:39:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T08:39:23","slug":"breaking-blake-snell-signing-with-dodgers-has-mlb-fans-in-sheer-disbelief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=5473","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Blake Snell Signing With Dodgers Has MLB Fans in Sheer Disbelief"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cIt\u2019s just not fair\u201d was a phrase that was probably said a lot Tuesday night after Blake Snell\u00a0agreed to a massive five-year, $182 million deal\u00a0with the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n

Coming off a dominant World Series win, the Dodgers inked the two-time Cy Young winner to the first nine-figure deal of the winter, as reported by\u00a0Jeff Passan of ESPN. The deal includes a whopping $52 million signing bonus.<\/p>\n

The left-hander entered this winter as one of the top free-agent arms having found his elite form in the second half of the 2024 season, posting a 1.23 ERA across his final 14 starts for the San Francisco Giants and a 3.12 ERA on the year.<\/p>\n

Snell, 31, will join a ridiculously talented Dodgers rotation in 2025 that includes Tyler Glasnow, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and two-way phenom Shohei Ohtani, with Clayton Kershaw also expected to re-sign with the team and suit up at some point.<\/p>\n

Nearly every MLB fan not cheering for the Dodgers had some variation of the same reaction to Snell joining the World Series champs: Disbelief with a healthy helping of disgust at watching the rich get richer.<\/p>\n

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