Blake Snell's five-year, $182 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers includes $66 million in deferred money, according to MLB insider Jon Heyman.

This is The Athletic’s MLB newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Windup directly in your inbox. The Winter Meetings start in a week. Blake Snell jumped the gun and signed before they started. Will Juan Soto be next?

Snell, 31, will join a ridiculously talented Dodgers rotation in 2025 that includes Tyler Glasnow, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and two-way phenom Shohei Ohtani, with Clayton Kershaw also expected to re-sign with the team and suit up at some point.