Justin Turner of the Los Angeles Dodgers was left with a two-year, $ 34 million deal

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Third baseman Justin Turner stays with the Los Angeles Dodgers, he announced Saturday on Twitter.

The Turner deal has a two-year, $ 34 million warranty and includes a club option for a third year, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan.

Turner, 36, became a free agent when his four-year, $ 64 million contract expired after winning the Dodgers World Series in October. A member of the Dodgers since 2014, Turner is the player with the most position on the team and the third longest overall, behind Clayton Kershaw (2008) and Kenley Jansen (2010).

Turner was a worker in the first half of his career in the Major League. The New York Mets did not bid him in December 2013, left him unsigned for the next two months and then agreed to a minor league contract with the Dodgers. At age 29, he began to establish himself among the third most productive base in the game.

Turner hit .297 / .378 / .508 from 2015 to 2019, racking up 105 homers, 147 doubles and 21.9 FanGraphs earned over the spare in 645 regular-season games. He formed an All-Star team, finished in the top ten by voting National League MVP on two occasions and set the tone for the Dodgers ’coup philosophy as their most consistent performer.

Along the way, Turner contributed to several memorable postseason moments, most notably his home run against the Chicago Cubs in the second game of the 2017 NL Championship Series. According to ESPN Stats & Information research, he ranks first in the Dodgers ’postseason history in hits (79), homers (12), runs (40) and RBI (41).

His crowning achievement finally came last season, when Turner, a lifelong Dodgers fan who grew up in Lakewood, California, identifies Kirk Gibson’s famous home run at the 1988 World Series as his first memory. of baseball, helped lead the franchise. in his first championship in more than 30 years.

Turner posted 1,066 OPS in six World Series games against the Tampa Bay Rays, but his outstanding career was tarnished after Major League Baseball informed the Dodgers in the final stages of the turnout that Turner had tested positive and COVID-19.

Turner, representing the Dodgers player, was eliminated to start the eighth inning of Game 6 and was not on the field to celebrate the final outing. But he broke protocol and re-entered the field to take photos with the World Series trophy and was seen around teammates without a mask, provoking the wrath of MLB officials and the rampant criticism of the people of the whole country. MLB finally decided not to discipline him.

ESPN’s Alden González contributed to this report.

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