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<\/p>\nExtensions for managers should be completed before spring training and if there is a skipper who should be rewarded with an extension, it is Dave Roberts of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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The Dodgers have been dishing out contracts all offseason combining for just more than $375 million.<\/p>\n
This includes significant commitments, such as $182 million for Blake Snell, $72 million for Tanner Scott, $66 million for Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez, $22 million for Blake Treinen, $17 million for Michael Conforto, $12.5 million for Hyeseong Kim, and over $6.5 million for Roki Sasaki.<\/p>\n
This doesn\u2019t include Kirby Yates, who has reportedly agreed to a deal but the Dodgers have to clear a spot on the 40-man roster before signing him.
\nWith the roster essentially complete, the Dodgers need to extend Roberts \u2014 and Jim Bowden of The Athletic believes that new contract will be record-shattering.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn my opinion, he needs to be paid more than the $66 million that Hern\u00e1ndez got and the $72 million that Scott received,\u201d Bowden wrote. \u201cA 10-year contract in the $80 million range would be appropriate, and if the Dodgers want to defer a big chunk of it, as they\u2019re known to do, that would only help Roberts in his post-managing days.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n As the manager of the Dodgers, Roberts has an impressive 851-506 record, with eight first-place finishes in nine years.<\/p>\n His teams have won 100 or more games in five seasons and secured 90 or more wins in every season except for the shortened 2020 campaign, where the Dodgers went 43-17.<\/p>\n With a regular-season winning percentage of .627, Roberts has led the team to two World Series titles, making him a strong candidate for the Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n Signed through the end of 2025, Roberts is poised for a record-breaking contract extension.<\/p>\n Craig Counsell\u2019s five-year, $40 million deal with the Chicago Cubs set a new standard for managers in 2023, and per Bowden, Roberts\u2019 next contract is expected to surpass it significantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Extensions for managers should be completed before spring training and if there is a skipper who should be rewarded with an extension, it is Dave Roberts of… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":30256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"\n