This previous postseason, Miguel Rojas introduced that 2026 could be the final 12 months of his MLB profession.
On Wednesday, he and the Dodgers ensured he would exit in Los Angeles.
Barely a month faraway from Rojas’ heroics on this 12 months’s World Sequence, he and the Dodgers agreed to a one-year, $5.5-million contract for subsequent season, based on a number of folks with information of the state of affairs not licensed to talk publicly.
The transfer marks the Dodgers’ first signing of this offseason, bringing again the 12-year veteran and utility infielder within the membership’s quest for a 3rd consecutive World Sequence title.
After retiring on the finish of subsequent season, Rojas will even stick with the group in a participant growth function.
El Extrabase first reported the signing.
Again at first of his profession, Rojas first broke into the majors with the Dodgers in 2014 earlier than being traded to the Marlins. After eight seasons in Miami, Rojas was traded again to the Dodgers earlier than the beginning of the 2023 season, and has turn into a key veteran voice within the group’s clubhouse since.
On the sphere, Rojas has remained a productive presence, hitting .259 with 18 dwelling runs and 94 RBIs during the last three years. He has additionally offered worth defensively, taking part in second base, third base and shortstop — and changing into a finalist for the Nationwide League’s utility participant Gold Glove award final season.
No contributions, in fact, had been extra essential than what Rojas did within the World Sequence towards the Toronto Blue Jays.
After being drawn again into the lineup for Recreation 6 of the collection, he helped full a game-sealing double-play by choosing a throw from Kiké Hernández at second base.
Then in Recreation 7, he hit a season-saving, game-tying dwelling run within the prime of the ninth inning, earlier than throwing out a possible successful Toronto Blue Jays run at dwelling plate within the backside half of the body.
He did all of it whereas taking part in although an harm, too, having aggravated an intercostal drawback within the group’s celebration after Recreation 6.
Accidents have been a recurring drawback for Rojas, coping with forearm, hamstring and hernia accidents lately.
Nevertheless, his worth on and off the sphere made him a probable candidate to be re-signed this winter.
On Wednesday, he and the group made the reunion official.
