After playing an essential role in the Dodgers’ Game 7 comeback to win a second straight World Series, Miguel Rojas as the old saying goes should never again have to pay for a meal in Los Angeles. But just in case a check gets dropped after he dines, he’ll have at least one more major league salary to fortify his reserves.
The Dodgers are bringing back the veteran infielder for a $5.5 million contract for 2026, per multiple reports, first by Daniel Álvarez-Montes of El Extrabase.
Rojas, who made $5 million in 2025 before reaching free agency, hit .262/.318/.397 with a 100 wRC+ during the regular season, his second straight season with at least a league-average (100 or higher) wRC+ and the third such season of his 12-year career.
The longtime shortstop started more games at both second base (49) and third base (20) in 2025 than at shortstop (10 starts). Rojas finished in the top three in voting among National League utility players for a Gold Glove Award.
He started only twice and batted only 12 times through the Dodgers’ first 15 postseason games, but was inserted into the starting lineup at second base for both Games 6 and 7 of the World Series against the Blue Jays in Toronto.
Rojas made a fantastic scoop of a throw from left fielder Kiké Hernández to finish off the double play that sealed Game 6 win. Rojas had two more hits in Game 7, including the game-tying home run with one out in the ninth inning that kept the Dodgers alive. He also made a backhanded stab of a hard grounder in the bottom of the ninth and threw home to prevent what would have been the championship-winning run from scoring for Toronto.
Rojas said multiple times during the postseason that he wanted to play one more season before retiring, and hoped it would be with the Dodgers, for whom he started his major league career in 2014. He’ll get that chance at age 37, now in his fourth season since rejoining the Dodgers in 2023.
“Nobody when I came to this organization asked me, ‘Hey we want you to be a leader’ or ‘We want you to be a mentor.’ It’s just who I want to be and who I want to be for the future,” Rojas told True Blue LA in 2024. “After my career is over, I’m trying to stay on the field, to stay coaching, and I want to be a part of an organization that wants to win.”
But before that coaching career begins, Rojas will have one more season of playing first. Once Rojas is officially added, the Dodgers will have 38 players on the 40-man roster.
