Blake Snell’s tenure in San Francisco is over, but the Giants will continue seeing him pretty frequently in the coming years.
Snell is signing a five-year, $182 million deal with the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers, according to multiple reports.
Snell, who opted out of his two-year deal with the Giants in early November, confirmed the news on his Instagram, posting an edited image of himself wearing a Dodgers uniform.
The Giants’ odds of competing with the Dodgers and Padres in the NL West were already slim, but Los Angeles’ addition of Snell only creates a further disparity between San Francisco and its Southern California rival. Snell stands to join one of the most talented rotations in the league, a unit that will likely include Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tyler Glasnow.
In his lone season with the Giants, Snell went 5-3 with a 3.12 ERA with 145 strikeouts over 104 innings, tossing a no-hitter against the Cincinnati Reds on Aug. 2.