NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Pitcher Eric Lauer added just $600,001 to the Los Angeles Dodgers’ pricey payroll.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles acquired the 30-year-old left-hander from Toronto on Sunday for $1. As part of the swap, the Blue Jays agreed to send the Dodgers $2,529,411.76.<\/p>\n
Lauer lost to the Blue Jays in arbitration last winter and has a $4.4 million salary, of which he was owed $3,129,411.76 at the time of the trade. Toronto will send the Dodgers $529,411.76 on May 31 and $1 million each on July 31 and Sept. 30.<\/p>\n
Two-time World Series champion Los Angeles started the season with a $323 million payroll, second to the New York Mets’ $358 million.<\/p>\n
Lauer made two scoreless appearances for the Blue Jays against the Dodgers in last year’s World Series. He was designated for assignment last Monday after starting the new season 1-5 with a 6.69 ERA in eight appearances, including six starts.<\/p>\n
He is 46-44 with a 4.26 ERA in eight major league seasons with San Diego (2018-19), Milwaukee (2020-23) and Toronto (2025-26). After spending the early part of 2024 at Triple-A with Pittsburgh and Houston farm teams, he pitched in South Korea for the Kia Tigers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Pitcher Eric Lauer added just $600,001 to the Los Angeles Dodgers’ pricey payroll. Los…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,5,88471,1497,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,4,9501,9496,39138,22858,22859,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-703548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-angels","8":"tag-angels","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-eric-lauder-dodgers-blue-jays-trade","11":"tag-eric-lauer","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-la-angels","14":"tag-laangels","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-angels","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-losangelesangels","19":"tag-mlb","20":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","21":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","22":"tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","23":"tag-product-40802-ap-new-york-city-sports-only","24":"tag-product-40803-ap-new-york-state-sports-only","25":"tag-toronto"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116604143081341111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}