LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers tendered contract offers to eight of their 10 arbitration-eligible players before Friday’s deadline and even reached agreements with two of those players.
Tony Gonsolin and Dustin May – neither of whom pitched in the majors in 2024 while recovering from surgeries – agreed to one-year contracts for 2025. Gonsolin will make $5.4 million, a significant raise from the $3.4 million salary he made while rehabbing from Tommy John surgery in 2024.
Gonsolin, 30, did make three starts with Triple-A Oklahoma City on a minor-league injury rehabilitation assignment late in the year and threw live batting practice to Dodger hitters during their postseason workouts. He is expected to take a spot in the Dodgers’ starting rotation in 2025, a group they plan to expand to six starters to accommodate Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Shohei Ohtani.
May, meanwhile, was expected to return during the second half of the 2024 season after undergoing surgery in July 2023 to repair his flexor tendon and undergo a revision procedure of the Tommy John surgery he had in May 2021.
But in July he had emergency surgery to repair a torn esophagus and was shut down for the season.
May, 27, has thrown a total of 101 innings since 2020. He will make $2.135 million in 2025.
Relievers Brent Honeywell Jr. and Zach Logue were not tendered contracts. Honeywell had a 2.62 ERA in 18 appearances with the Dodgers after being acquired in July. Logue spent most of the season in the minors and made just two appearances with the Dodgers.
Contracts were tendered to their remaining arbitration-eligible players – second baseman Gavin Lux and relievers Michael Kopech, Evan Phillips, Anthony Banda, Alex Vesia and Brusdar Graterol.
