
Dodgers’ Blake Snell deal pushes franchise’s deferred cash total toward $1 billion
NY Post
The Dodgers are at it again.
The reigning World Series champions signed two-time Cy Young winner Blake Snell to a five-year, $182 million contract.
Like their blockbuster free agency deal with Shohei Ohtani last winter, Snell’s contract includes deferred money – $60 million, to be exact, nearly one-third of the entire pact.
The Snell contract brings the franchise’s deferred compensation ledger to nearly $1 billion – $962 million – far outpacing the rest of the league and infuriating fans of the 29 other teams.
Ohtani is deferring $680 million of his record-breaking $700 million contract.
In 2020, Mookie Betts signed a 12-year, $365 million deal with the Dodgers that included $115 million in deferrals.

Suddenly, someone had hit a rewind button and everyone had been transported back seven months. It was early spring instead of late fall, it was broiling hot outside the arena walls and not freezing cold. Everyone was back at TD Garden. There were 19,156 frenzied fans on their feet begging for blood, poised for the kill.












