Michael Conforto agrees to contract with Dodgers (Source)

Michael Conforto agrees to contract with Dodgers (Source)

Outfielder Michael Conforto and the Dodgers have agreed to a one-year, $17 million deal, a source told MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand. The club has not confirmed the deal.

Conforto, who turns 32 on March 1, spent the first seven years of his major league career with the Mets, who originally drafted him 10th overall in the 2014 MLB Draft. After sitting out the 2022 season due to a right shoulder injury that ultimately required surgery, he signed a two-year, $36 million contract with the Giants in January 2023.

The veteran outfielder had a mostly healthy 2024 season for the first time since 2019, interrupted only by a brief stint on the IL in mid-May due to a right hamstring strain. In 130 games, he hit .237/.309/.450 (116 OPS+) with 20 home runs and 66 RBIs, recording the lowest single-season walk rate of his career (8.6%) but the highest hard-hit Full season rate (46.3%).

A one-time All-Star (2017), Conforto was once one of the top prospects in the Mets’ minor league system. He debuted in July 2015 and was instrumental in New York’s playoff push in the second half. He then hit .333 with two home runs in the 2015 World Series against the Royals. He remains one of only three players, along with Ed Vosberg and Jason Varitek, to have played in the Little League World Series (2004, Redmond North Little League), the College World Series (2013, Oregon State) and the MLB World Series (2015). .

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