BREAKING: Mookie Betts just signed a record-breaking extension with the Dodgers. 😳💰
When combined with the one-year, $27 million deal Betts is currently under, his total contract is worth $392 million over 13 years.
The new money in Betts’ contract is the most in MLB history, topping Mike Trout’s extension which was $360 million over 10 years. The total value of the deal Trout signed at the time was greater, coming in at $426.5 million over 12 years but, as noted byBetts, 27, is getting set for his first season with the Dodgers after being acquired by the team in a blockbuster three-team trade with the Boston Red Sox and Minnesota Twins in early February.
The 2018 American League MVP slashed .295/.391/.524 in his final season with the Red Sox while hitting 29 home runs, recording 80 RBIs and leading the league in runs scored with 135. The Dodgers get their shortened 2020 season underway Thursday at home against the San Francisco Giants.
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