November 10th, 2024 at 9:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka It has been twelve days since the final out of Game-5 of the 2024 World Series was recorded, making the Los Angeles Dodgers the Champions of baseball.
Twelve days.
And 32-year-old outfielder Teoscar Hernández still hasn’t been re-signed by the Dodgers for the 2025 season.
As Dodgers fans well know, the extremely popular (again) free-agent Cotui, Dominican Republic native signed a one-year / $23.5 million contract with the Dodgers on January 12, 2024. After doing so, Teo had the best season of his now nine-year MLB career, posting an excellent .272/.339/.501/.840 slash line, with 33 home runs and 99 RBIs, second best on the team in both categories to Shohei Ohtani‘s 54 and 130 respectively.
Although the Dodgers extended Hernández a qualifying offer of $21.05 million prior to last Monday’s deadline and he has until has until 1 p.m. PT on November 19 to accept or decline that offer (which he is expected to decline), he is receiving a lot of interest from several other teams, most notably the Boston Red Sox and Baltimore Orioles. That said, he has made it abundantly clear that he wants to return to the Dodgers in 2025.
“My hopes are really high,” Hernández told reporters during last week’s World Series parade in downtown Los Angeles. “Like I’ve said before, the Dodgers are the priority. Obviously. I’m going to do everything in my power to come back.”
It’s your move, Dodgers. As Nike used to say:
Play Ball!
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There is also getter done, make it work,make it happen, we need this.
Sign him up
Agree. Sign Teo. DO NOT SIGN SOTO!! If the plan is to move Mookie to 2nd base; Teo can man right. Soto may be a great hitter; but his deficiencies on the bases and in the field are tremendous. Not fast, and definitely a terrible base runner. A CONSISTANT THREE-FOOT LEAD when he is on first?? He would plug up the bases. How about his fielding? Reads on balls off the wall are below average. That ball that dropped between Rizzo and Soto? He jogged to it. Rizzo was running hard and barely missed it. Soto would have had it if he would have ran. Our guys play HARD. Soto has a good arm; but he is a DH that plays the field. Teo plays hard; has a good arm. He is not a great fielder; but he makes up for that with his attention to details. Oh, and he is a great clubhouse presence. Give Dalton Rushing a look with Pages in left.
Spot on! From what I have observed, Soto does not fit in with the Dodgers hustle, team first culture. Drive up the price for Yankees, Mets, Phillies, Giants, etc., but in the end a big pass by Dodgers.
Pass on Soto. Use the money to resign Teo, Fried, and Adames.
Inquiring mind would like to know; how much Competitive Balance Tax are the Dodgers willing to spend in 2025, and are they willing to absorb the draft choice penalties for going above the highest threshold?
With Mookie Betts reportedly headed back to second base, re-signing Teoscar seems to make sense if team is willing to live with his marginal (at best) outfield defense. If Dalton Rushing is going to make the opening day lineup, it will almost certainly be in left field. With Andy Pages in center and Teo in right, the Dodgers would arguably have the worst defensive outfield in MLB.
Andrew Friedman and Brandon Gomes will definitely earn their pay this off season.
LF Teo
Cf Edman
RF Pages against Lefties
RF Outman against righties
RF Teo Rushing in LF
LF Gavin Lux or is he traded
I want Teo, Buehler Treinin
Sasaki done.
We, the Dodgers, soon, must think of getting younger.
What a treat for us to have such players who are soon to be Hall of Famers.