NEW YORK — The Los Angeles Dodgers owe $1.051 billion in deferred pay to eight players from 2028-46 following Tanner Scott’s four-year, $72 million contract and Teoscar Hernandez’s three-year, $66 million deal. Los Angeles’ high payment point is $100.95 million in both 2038 and ’39, according to details obtained by The Associated Press.

The Dodgers have gone out and done everything possible . . . to put the best possible team on the field,” baseball commissioner Rob Manfred said last week.

With the Padres taking Dylan Cease off of the trade block, another candidate has emerged to be dealt from San Diego.

The Dodgers signed reliever Tanner Scott on the same weekend. Juan Soto, the best free agent on the market, signed a record-setting $765 million deal with the Mets back in December. Pitchers ...

Not even two days after signing Japanese star pitcher Roki Sasaki last month, the Dodgers outmuscled the Cubs for the best reliever on the free agent market, giving lefty Tanner Scott a four-year deal worth $72 million.

The Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs will play the first games of the 2025 Major League Baseball regular season.