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Miguel Rojas leaving door slightly open to another season with Dodgers

May 2, 2026

ST. LOUIS — Miguel Rojas isn’t having second thoughts. But he is having thoughts.

In an interview with Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, the Dodgers’ veteran infielder revealed that maybe – just maybe – this won’t be his final season after all. The 37-year-old Rojas said last fall that he wanted to play one more year with the Dodgers, who re-signed him to a one-year, $5.5 million contract for 2026.

But Rojas acknowledges there is one way he would consider returning in 2027 – if the Dodgers three-peat.

“It’s not about playing for one more year just for me. It’s about playing for this team, with the same core group, with the same guys and trying to do something that’s never been done before,” Rojas said Friday of potentially chasing a fourth consecutive title in 2027. “That’s the only reason I would sit down with my wife and my family and say, ‘You know what – it’s worth the shot. Let’s do it one more year.’

“If we win another championship how can I go home – if I can still play, if I can help this same team win, with the same core group? And I’m not just sitting on the bench, taking someone’s spot. I can still play.”

Rojas has no interest in playing for a team other than the Dodgers and he acknowledges that “in baseball, things can change like that” (snapping his fingers). He had sports hernia surgery following the 2024 season and played through an intercostal injury during last fall’s World Series. But for now, he feels healthy and is playing well. With Mookie Betts on the injured list, Rojas has shared the shortstop starts with Hyeseong Kim, playing his usual good defense and also batting .341 through Thursday.

But that’s not why he’s leaving the door open for 2027.

“I feel like my decision is not based on performance in a really good month,” he said. “I’m not going to change my mind because I had a really good month and I had a good spring training and I feel healthy right now. … What is going to be hard to put into perspective is if we win again and I feel good, I’m going to have to have a conversation with my family and my wife.

“It’s not me reconsidering because of my performance. It’s about us winning again and making history. And not going home and saying, ‘Ohhh – what if I had stayed?’ That’s a regret I don’t want to have.”

REHAB REPORT

Blake Snell joined the Dodgers in St. Louis and threw a bullpen session on Friday afternoon.

Snell made his second rehab start with Class-A Ontario on Wednesday and threw 39 pitches while retiring nine of 10 batters faced in three innings.

Snell is scheduled to make another rehab start on Sunday, this time with Triple-A Oklahoma City. At least one more will follow after that before he is ready to rejoin the Dodgers’ starting rotation.

“The hope is four (innings) and 60 (pitches) for this one,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. The target is for Snell to build up to five innings and 75 pitches before joining the Dodgers.

Meanwhile, right-hander Brock Stewart pitched on back-to-back days for the first time in his return from shoulder surgery. He pitched an inning Wednesday night for OKC then faced one batter (and struck him out) in their game on Thursday.

Stewart is expected to make another appearance for OKC on Sunday but is very close to being activated.

“I think the only box (left to check) … is the up-down,” Roberts said, referring to an appearance where Stewart would finish one inning then go back out to start the next. “Outside of that, he’s done everything else. He’s performed. He’s checked all those boxes. There might be … an up-down that would be the last box.”

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Dodgers (RHP Roki Sasaki, 1-2, 6.35 ERA) at Cardinals (RHP Michael McGreevy, 1-2, 2.97 ERA), Saturday, 4:15 p.m., FOX (Ch. 11), 570 AM

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