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Yaisel Sierra contract details

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PHOENIX -- The Dodgers' six-year contract with Cuban right-handed pitcher Yaisel Sierra was finalized on Sunday, and the $30 million guarantee includes a $6 million signing bonus.

Sierra gets half of his signing bonus within 15 days of the contract becoming official, and the other half on Dec. 15, 2016, per the Associated Press, who also provided the breakdown of each season's salary.

Sierra will receive salaries of $1 million in 2016, $2.5 million in 2017, $3.5 million in 2018, $4 million in 2019, $5.5 million in 2020 and $7.5 million in 2021.

Once he accrues enough major league service time to be eligible for salary arbitration, Sierra has the option to void the remainder of his contract to instead go through arbitration, a clause that Yasiel Puig also has in his contract signed in June 2012.

Including Sierra's signing bonus, the club has $214.755 million committed to 27 players in 2016.

Sierra is one of just three guaranteed contracts the Dodgers have on the books for 2020, along with Clayton Kershaw ($33 million) and Kenta Maeda ($3 million), though Kershaw can also opt out after the 2018 season. If Scott Kazmir does not opt out after the 2016 season, the Dodgers would also owe him $8 million in 2020, as salary deferred from 2017.

At the moment, the Dodgers have $55.5 million committed in 2019, $49.5 million (including Kazmir) committed in 2020, and $18.5 million committed in 2021.