1. 新聞來源：
mlbtraderumors
2. 新聞標題：
Dodgers To Re-Sign Chase Utley
3. 新聞內容：
By Jeff Todd | February 13, 2018 at 7:45pm CDT
7:45pm: Utley’s deal will be for two years and $2MM when it becomes
official, tweets Andy McCullough of the L.A. Times.
3:43pm: Utley has agreed to a two-year contract to return to the Dodgers,
Heyman now tweets. Certainly, the multi-year deal comes as a bit of a
surprise, given his age, though it seems likely to come at a relatively
modest annual rate.
10:22am: There’s a deal in place, per Heyman (via Twitter).
10:14am: The Dodgers appear to be closing in on a deal to bring back
infielder Chase Utley for another run with the organization. Jon Heyman of
Fan Rag reported last night that the sides were engaged in serious talks,
while MLB.com’s Ken Gurnick tweets that Utley appears to have a locker set
up at the team’s spring facility, lacking only a nameplate.
All indications of late have been that the 39-year-old would repeat his turn
as a platoon piece. At this point, it seems only a matter of time before
things are formalized.
If the sides do indeed wrap up a deal, Utley will presumably spend most of
his time spelling the right-handed-hitting Logan Forsythe at second base.
Long a high-end everyday player, Utley’s productivity had understandably
waned with age. He was effective in a surprisingly robust 2016 season, over
which he took 565 plate appearances, but slid into a part-time role last year.
Los Angeles skipper Dave Roberts was exceedingly careful both to limit the
wear and tear and to deploy Utley against right-handed pitching last year.
Utley saw time in 127 games but tallied only 353 plate appearances, as the
Dodgers sought to utilize him in advantageous situations. He batted
.236/.324/.405 with eight homers on the season as a whole, though he strode
to the plate against lefties on just 28 occasions.
In each of the past two years, Utley has delivered just-below-average overall
offensive output, with successive 96 wRC+ efforts. He still grades as a
quality baserunner and average defender even as he closes in on his fortieth
birthday. Clearly, part of the math here for the Dodgers is Utley’s
oft-lauded, hard-nosed veteran presence.
4. 新聞連結：
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5. 備註：
(1) 道奇隊與現年39歲的Chase Utley簽下$2MM/2YR的合約。
(2) Utley預計擔任道奇隊的板凳二壘手，將與Logan Forsythe共同分擔二壘的工作。
(3) 過去兩年Utley在攻擊面的表現低於平均(96 wRC+)，而在跑壘與防守的表現以近四十
歲年紀來看還算不錯，但對道奇隊來說Utley的老經驗或許才是考量的重點。
(4) Chase Utely去年在道奇隊的成績表現(今年39歲；去年薪水：$2MM)：
G H HR RBI SO BB BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+
127 73 8 34 57 32 .236 .324 .405 .728 92