We still don’t know who will be the Dodgers’ starting shortstop in 2023, but we do know that, for the third time in the last five offseasons, L.A. has lost their starting shortstop to a free-agent mega-deal. Like Manny Machado and Corey Seager before him, Trea Turner has parlayed a job as L.A.’s shortstop into a $300 million cotract.
Los Angeles president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman met with the media at the Winter Meetings in San Diego, and he shed a little light on the negotiations between the Dodgers and Turner.