Dodgers 2024 offseason roster breakdown

The Dodgers were the last team standing at the end of the 2024 Major League Baseball season, and now it’s time for the offseason. Let’s take a look at the roster at the start of the long winter ahead.

Free agency already started on Thursday, with eight Dodgers hitting the open market. The group included outfielder Teoscar Hernández, utility man Kiké Hernández, starting pitchers Walker Buehler and Jack Flaherty, relievers Blake Treinen and Joe Kelly. Right-hander Daniel Hudson and outfielder Kevin Kiermaier are also free agents, but they announced their retirements.

Qualifying offers

The deadline to extend qualifying offers to outgoing free agents is Monday, November 4 at 2 p.m. PT. The qualifying offer is a one-year deal, valued at the average of the top 125 salaries during the previous season, which this year comes to $21.05 million.

Teoscar Hernández is a lock to get the qualifying offer, and Buehler is at least a possibility to receive one. Flaherty was traded midseason and is ineligible to receive a qualifying offer. Players receiving the offer have until Tuesday, November 19 at 1 p.m. PT to accept or decline.

For players who decline the qualifying offer and sign elsewhere, the Dodgers — as competitive balance tax payors — would receive a draft pick after the fourth round as compensation.

With those players now free agents, the Dodgers started their offseason with 39 players on the 40-man roster, but it’s pitching heavy (25 pitchers, 14 position players) so expect some movement to rectify that imbalance. Three of those players on the 40-man roster have 2025 options that will be decided soon.

Options (3)

Player Pos 2025 age Option type Option salary Buyout
Player Pos 2025 age Option type Option salary Buyout
Clayton Kershaw SP 37 Player $10,000,000 $0
Miguel Rojas SS 36 Club $5,000,000 $1,000,000
Austin Barnes C 35 Club $3,500,000 $0

All option decisions must be made by Monday.

Clayton Kershaw has a base salary of $10 million for his 2025 player option, with potential to earn up to $15 million more in bonuses ($1 million for each relief appearance of at least three innings or start from 11-25). The left-hander has already said he plans to return to the Dodgers, so it will be a matter of whether it’s on these terms or if he and the team work out another contract.

Miguel Rojas will have sports hernia surgery soon to repair the torn adductor that plagued him over the final few months. He said before the World Series, “I’m looking forward to play a couple more years.”

Austin Barnes is one of only seven catchers to play 10 seasons with the Dodgers. We’ll see by Monday if he gets an 11th.

Under contract (10)

Player Pos 2025 age 2024 salary 2025 salary 2025 CBT Signed through
Player Pos 2025 age 2024 salary 2025 salary 2025 CBT Signed through
Yoshinobu Yamamoto SP 26 $55,000,000 $10,000,000 $27,083,333 2035#
Shohei Ohtani DH/SP 30 $2,000,000 $2,000,000 $46,076,769 2033
Will Smith C 30 $23,550,000 $23,000,000 $12,241,285 2033
Mookie Betts RF/SS 32 $22,000,000 $22,000,000 $25,554,824 2032
Freddie Freeman 1B 35 $20,000,000 $15,000,000 $24,699,249 2027
Tyler Glasnow SP 31 $25,000,000 $30,000,000 $27,312,500 2027^
Max Muncy 3B 34 $12,000,000 $12,000,000 $12,000,000 2025*
Chris Taylor IF/OF 34 $13,000,000 $13,000,000 $15,000,000 2025*
Ryan Brasier RP 37 $4,500,000 $4,500,000 $4,500,000 2025
Tommy Edman IF/OF 30 $7,000,000 $9,500,000 $8,867,470 2025

#Yamamoto has opt-out dates depending on his health; ^Glasnow has a 2028 player option that becomes a club option if he declines.

*Dodgers have 2026 club options on Muncy and Taylor

These 10 contracts total $141 million in 2025 payments (a number of them include deferred money), with a competitive balance tax payroll of roughly $203.3 million. The Dodgers will be paying the luxury tax for a while, with the the first threshold next season at $241 million.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s contract runs through 2035. But he also has opt-outs, the timing of which depend on whether he has Tommy John surgery or misses time with a major elbow injury. If he stays healthy, his opt-outs are after 2029 and 2031; if not, he can opt out after 2031 and 2033.

Tyler Glasnow’s contract includes a player option for 2028 worth $21,562,500. If he declines the player option, it becomes a club option for $30 million.

The Dodgers hold club options in 2026 on Chris Taylor ($12 million, $4 buyout) and Max Muncy ($10 million, no buyout).

Salary arbitration (9)

Player Pos 2025 age Service time Options left 2024 salary 2025 estimate
Player Pos 2025 age Service time Options left 2024 salary 2025 estimate
Gavin Lux 2B 27 4.114 2 $1,225,000 $2,700,000
Michael Kopech RP 29 5.041 n/a $3,000,000 $5,200,000
Evan Phillips RP 30 4.136 0 $4,000,000 $6,200,000
Brusdar Graterol RP 26 4.167 2 $2,700,000 $2,700,000
Alex Vesia RP 29 4.078 1 $1,000,000 $1,900,000
Dustin May SP 26 5.059 3 $2,135,000 $2,135,000
Tony Gonsolin SP 30 4.152 1 $5,400,000 $5,400,000
Anthony Banda RP 31 3.135 0 unknown $1,100,000
Connor Brogdon RP 30 3.139 0 $761,000 $800,000

2025 salary arbitration estimates from MLB Trade Rumors

The salary arbitration projections used in the table are from Anthony Franco and Matt Swartz at MLB Trade Rumors. If all those estimates are realized, that would be another $28.1 million in salary to add to the totals above.

The date for players and clubs to exchange salary arbitration figures is January 10, 2025, which usually serves as a soft deadline for deals to be struck.

Players with between 0-3 years of service time (17)

Player Pos 2025 age Service time Options (used)
Player Pos 2025 age Service time Options (used)
Brent Honeywell RHP 30 2.045 0 (2018-21)
Michael Grove RHP 28 2.031 1 (’22, ’24)
Bobby Miller SP 26 1.116 2 (2024)
James Outman OF 28 1.095 1 (’22, ’24)
Emmet Sheehan SP 25 1.080 2 (2023)
Gavin Stone SP 26 1.034 2 (2023)
Andy Pages OF 24 0.155 1 (2023-24)
Zach Logue LHP 29 0.102 0 (2022-24)
Kyle Hurt RHP 27 0.099 2 (2024)
Landon Knack SP 27 0.079 2 (2024)
River Ryan SP 26 0.070 3 (none)
Justin Wrobleski SP 24 0.050 2 (2024)
Hunter Feduccia C 28 0.029 2 (2024)
Ben Casparius SP 26 0.016 2 (2024)
Edgardo Henriquez RHP 23 0.006 3 (none)
Nick Frasso SP 26 0.000 2 (2024)
Diego Cartaya C 23 0.000 1 (2023-24)

The minimum major league salary in 2025 is $760,000, up from $740,000 in 2024.

All told, with players under contract, those eligible for salary arbitration, and players with between zero and three years of service time, the Dodgers have 36 players on the 40-man roster, plus whomever of the three players with options might return.

Important offseason dates

  • November 4, 5 p.m. PT: Free agents are free to sign with any team
    (they can sign with their previous team at any point before then)
  • November 4, 2 p.m.: Deadline for clubs to make qualifying offers
  • November 19, 1 p.m.: Deadline for players to accept qualifying offer
  • November 19, 3 p.m.: Deadline for teams to file reserve lists
    (e.g. adding prospects to 40-man rosters)
  • November 22: Deadline to tender contracts for players on 40-man roster
  • December 9-12: Winter meetings in Dallas
  • December 10: Draft lottery
  • December 11: Rule 5 Draft
  • January 10: Arbitration salary exchange date

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