Dodgers Sign Belliard To One Year Deal, Now What?

Dylan Hernandez is tweeting, The Los Angeles Dodgers and Ronnie Belliard agreed to a one year deal worth $820K, and incentives up to $250K based on plate appearances. The physical has been completed, and this one is official. Hernandez also says that the contract is not guaranteed, unfortunately no details on exactly what this means yet. Next we have heard rumblings about some sorta weight clause built into the contract. Given the sensitive nature of the clause there is not a lot of details here. It seems as though according to Hernandez that Belliard's contract becomes guaranteed if he weighs in at 209 pounds or less at any point during spring training. (Man would this have been a nice clause in the Andruw Jones deal) Belliard's agent is denying the report of the clause, surprise.

Now we got somewhat of a logjam in the middle infield, right? Actually no. Ronnie Belliard will open the season as the regular second baseman. Jamey Carroll will be firmly placed into a utility roll, and the Dodgers become super flexible in the middle infield. Nick Green or Chin-lung Hu should get an opportunity to play short, since Carroll and Belliard can't. Blake DeWitt is either on his way back to AAA where he figures to play every day, or he will get traded. Either way this confirms that the Dodgers have lost all confidence in DeWitt, although I don't think the confidence was ever there to begin with. Ta Da! Felipe Lopez would've been such a better fit...