Dodgers sign Tanner Scott

The Dodgers and the left-hander Tanner Scott have agreed to a four-year, $72MM deal, according to a report from Mark Feinsand of MLB.com. According to Fabian Ardaya of The AthleticScott’s deal includes deferred money and a signing bonus, although the details of those details are not yet known.

Scott was ranked the #14 free agent in this winter’s class in MLBTR’s annual Top 50 MLB Free Agents list, where we predicted the lefty would land a four-year, $56MM deal. His deal with LA comes well above that mark, but that’s not necessarily surprising given reports earlier this month that indicated Scott could land a deal with an average annual value in the $20MM range. In the end, this deal doesn’t go quite that far, though his $18MM AAV is still quite the premium for his position. According to MLBTR’s Contract Tracker , Scott is tied for the third-highest AAV for a reliever in free agent history along with Liam Hendriks‘s deal with the White Sox with the pair trailing only Edwin Diaz and Josh Hader. Meanwhile, that’s the fifth-highest total guarantee a reliever has ever landed in free agency behind only Diaz, Hader, Aroldis Chapmanand Kenley Jansen.

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