Michael Conforto Accepts Contract With Dodgers (Source)

DALLAS – The Dodgers and outfielder Michael Conforto have agreed to terms on a one-year, $17 million contract, a source told MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand. The club has not confirmed the agreement.

Conforto, who turns 32 on March 1, spent the last two seasons with the Giants on a $36 million deal after missing all of 2022 with a right shoulder injury that eventually required surgery. He spent the first seven years of his Major League career with the Mets, who drafted him 10th overall in 2014.

The veteran outfielder had a largely healthy 2024 season for the first time since 2019, interrupted only by a brief IL stint 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, which had the lowest single-season walk rate of his career (8.6%), but the highest full-season hit. rate (46.3%).

Outside of the 40-man options, top prospect Dalton Rushing started getting reps in left field midway through 2024 and could break onto the big league roster at that position as he is blocked at catcher by Will Smith and Austin Barnes. The Dodgers also have interest in bringing back Teoscar Hernández, who would occupy a corner outfield spot.

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