The Dodgers prevented arbitration with reliever Brusdar Graterol on Wednesday, reportedly agreeing to phrases with the Venezuelan right-hander on a one-year, $2.8 million deal earlier than Thursday’s deadline to keep away from an arbitration listening to.
Graterol, 27, missed the 2025 season after present process surgical procedure on the labrum in his proper shoulder in Nov. 2024. The $2.8 million determine is similar as his wage for final season.
After being acquired by the Dodgers in a 2020 commerce that despatched Kenta Maeda to the Minnesota Twins, he was a hard-throwing member of the workforce’s bullpen.
Graterol’s greatest season got here in 2023 when he recorded a 1.20 earned-run common throughout 67.1 innings in 68 video games, putting out 48 batters and strolling 11.
Shoulder inflmmation and a hamstring pressure restricted Graterol to solely seven appearances in the course of the 2024 common season — although he did pitch in three World Sequence video games towards the New York Yankees, together with the clinching Sport 5 — earlier than he underwent shoulder surgical procedure.
Graterol can turn out to be a free agent after the 2026 season.
The Dodgers have three different arbitration-eligible gamers who’ve till Thursday to conform to phrases on a wage for subsequent season: Left-hander Anthony Banda, outfielder Alex Name and right-hander Brock Stewart.
If any of the gamers can’t come to an settlement, the workforce and participant should trade wage figures and a listening to shall be scheduled. Negotiations can proceed till the date of the listening to.
