210 batting average and 19 homers in 144 games this season.
The Dodgers announced today that outfielder Cody Bellinger has been made a non-tender free agent. On this day, the “tender deadline”, which is the deadline for notifying the players who have the right to arbitrate annual salaries whether each team is willing to sign a contract for the next season, did not present the contract to Bellinger and called it a non-tender. did.
Bellinger was the National League MVP in 2019 with 47 home runs, but this season he has a .210 batting average, 19 homers and 68 RBIs and a .654 OPS in 144 games. Although he has a huge annual salary of $17 million (about 2.38 billion yen), he has been in a slump in the last three years, ending with a .165 batting average last year.
Ken Rosenthal of the US sports media “The Athletic” predicts, “The Dodgers could re-sign him for less than the estimated $18 million (approximately 2.53 billion yen) in annual salary arbitration.” . America’s largest transfer information site “Trade Rumors” lamented the “fall”, saying, “This is not a surprise move at the moment, but no one expected it when he won the MVP three years ago.”
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