According to many sources with knowledge of the matter who are not permitted to talk publicly, the Dodgers made a significant move Tuesday night by agreeing to a five-year, $182 million contract with two-time Cy Young Award-winning pitcher Blake Snell, subject to a physical.

Snell, the Shorewood High graduate, initially hinted at the deal Tuesday night when he uploaded a Photoshopped photo of himself wearing a Dodgers jersey to Instagram. The deal includes a $52 million signing bonus as well as some deferred money. “LA” was written in the caption along with an eyeball emoji.

The Dodgers made their most recent acquisition evident all of a sudden, a year after they had spent over $1 billion on frontline arms Tyler Glasnow, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Shohei Ohtani. They had thrown their wallets open once more. They had added a huge addition to their starting rotation once more.

Over his nine-year career, Snell, 31, has established himself as one of the game’s best left-handed pitchers. The 6-foot-4 Seattle native has a 3.19 ERA and 1,368 strikeouts over 211 career starts and has won the American League Cy Young award with the Tampa Bay Rays in 2018 and the National League Cy Young award with the San Diego Padres in 2023, while only being named an All-Star once.