Dodgers, Cody Bellinger reached 1-year, $17M deal before lockout

Cody Bellinger and the Dodgers reportedly reached statement connected a declaration for the 2022 play earlier Major League Baseball instituted a lockout Dec. 1.

According to ESPN, Bellinger and the Dodgers volition debar wage arbitration with the one-year, $17 cardinal contract.

Bellinger was eligible for arbitration for the 3rd time. He made $16.1 cardinal successful 2021, his 2nd play of arbitration eligibility. Bellinger’s $11.5 cardinal wage successful 2020 – connected the heels of his 2019 National League MVP run – broke the grounds for a first-time arbitration-eligible subordinate

The outfielder/first baseman batted .165 with 10 location runs and 36 RBIs successful an injury-plagued 2021 season. He rebounded with a beardown postseason, batting .353 with a .436 on-base percent successful 12 October games.

Bellinger, 26, deed 47 location runs with 115 RBIs successful 2019. In summation to his MVP award, helium won a Gold Glove for his defence successful close field.

In 2020, Bellinger batted .239 with 12 location runs and 30 RBIs successful 56 games. He suffered a enarthrosis wounded successful the postseason that required offseason surgery.

Then, aboriginal successful the 2021 regular season, Bellinger suffered a hairline fracture successful his near fibula.

Teams are prohibited from negotiating with large league players during the lockout. As a result, astir transactions person been fundamentally frozen this month. The major-league information of the yearly Winter Meetings were antecedently canceled.