LOS ANGELES(AP) -- Manny Ramirez is coming back to the Dodgers
next season.
The team said Friday that the slugger exercised his $20 million
contract option for 2010. His agent Scott Boras informed general
manager Ned Colletti of the decision, which Ramirez had until
this month to make.
He could have exercised an out clause in the two-year, $45
million deal he signed in March.
Ramirez hit .290 with 19 home runs and 63 RBIs in 104 regular
season games. He missed 50 games while suspended for violating
baseball's drug policy.
In the NL division series against St. Louis, Ramirez batted .308
with no homers and two RBI. Against Philadelphia in the NL
championship series, he hit .263 with one homer and two RBI.
Ramirez was traded to the Dodgers from Boston in July 2008.
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