Dec. 13: Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman were all present at Dodger Stadium yesterday for the team’s recruitment pitch to Yamamoto, per Fabian Ardaya and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. Dorsey tweets that Will Smith, Yamamoto’s potential batterymate if he signs in Los Angeles, was also present.
Dec. 12: The Dodgers met with Yoshinobu Yamamoto today as the star right-hander continues his North American tour, reports Russell Dorsey of Bally Sports (on X). They’re the sixth team known to chat with the 25-year-old free agent.
Mets officials flew to Japan to speak with Yamamoto last week. The pitcher and his camp are now traveling around the U.S. and Canada as they interview with other teams in the mix. Yamamoto met with the Giants two days ago and the Yankees yesterday. He’ll chat with the Red Sox and Blue Jays later in the week.
After signing Shohei Ohtani, the Dodgers are on the hunt for rotation help. L.A. has been linked to virtually every starting pitcher of note in free agency or trade. The Dodgers have Walker Buehler and Bobby Miller locked into two rotation spots. They figure to at least two starters to a middle to back end that includes Ryan Pepiot, Emmet Sheehan, Michael Grove and Ryan Yarbrough while Tony Gonsolin and Dustin May work back from surgery.
Yamamoto is widely viewed as the best remaining free agent. He is increasingly expected to command a contract approaching or exceeding $300MM, to say nothing of the posting fee an MLB team would owe to the Orix Buffaloes.
While Yamamoto is easily the top pitcher coming over from Japan this offseason, he’s not the only one. Left-hander Shota Imanaga, who turned 30 in September, was posted by the Yokohama BayStars. He’s coming off a 2.80 ERA with an excellent 29.2% strikeout rate over 148 innings. In an appearance on MLB Network this afternoon, Jon Morosi indicated the Dodgers had some level of interest in Imanaga. Teams like the Cubs, Mets, Red Sox and Tigers have also been tied to the southpaw at points this offseason.
Roster Resource calculates the Dodgers’ luxury tax number for 2024 just south of $220MM. That leaves them $17MM below the base threshold and well shy of their estimated $267MM CBT number from last season.
]insert Key & Peele forehead sweating gif[
Cue the Dodger eye roll at this point.
Funny, I did so right before I read your comment.
Oh no probably another Ohtani type of contract. Smh. Not that’s there’s anything wrong with that I guess.
Robby the robot approves apparently. Anything to help his large market masters.
Ohtani contract is reserved for Ohtani. He is the only player who has 30 to 50 million in annual endorsements. Regular players need to get paid ASAP.
Right, because no one can live on $2 million a year. The horrors of having so little money.
No, they don’t. Monty and Snell, just for the sake of discussion, have career earnings of $21M and $51M.
And Bobby Bonilla.
I don’t think you can do that in this instance, hard money has to go the Japan, that money can not be differed, far as I know.
Yeah, for the posting fee. But the rest of his contract has nothing to do with Japan lol
Signing for $2 mil a year.
This is getting out of hand; now my wife wants to “defer” our sex life until 2036.
Mlb Fan, ask for a retroactive “signing bonus!”
Well, think of it as your body not being “taxed” until then.
She must have massive endorsements
@mlbfan;
Sorry bout your luck!
What is it that they say about going for the championship while your star is still on that rookie contract…
…never mind, that’s football. A “contact” sport.
I actually spit water out of my mouth reading this and had to dry my phone off. I appreciate comments like this lol
Trade her.
“Meeting with Dodgers (and a surprise drop-in from Shohei Ohtani) “
Evil Empire changing of the guards in process. Are they Evil Empire Deferred?
I’ve been saying it for years. The Dodgers are far more “Evil Empire” than the Yankees anymore.
Or, no one is evil. It’s just teams doing business.
They’ll look real evil when they have so many of these contracts built up that aren’t sustainable.
Cora, that would look stupid, not evil
More or less sarcasm on my end but you’re right
contracts built up that aren’t sustainable.
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What is more sustainable? Ohtani for $460M/10 or SD signing 3 guys to bib money contracts until age 40?
Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
What number will Yamamoto wear for the Dodgers?
He will wear #18, but I don’t think it will just be for the Dodgers. Players usually keep the same number all year, for all their opponents, especially when playing for the Yankees!
They are already very late to the game.
I’d think it comes down to the Mets and Dodgers for Yamamoto. The former will throw as much money possible, but you’d think the Dodgers should be favored for many reasons including better change of winning, favorable geography, and favorable lifestyle (bigger Japanese community, better restaurants, etc.).
Of course, I have no idea what exactly he values and his relationship with Ohtani, but you’d think the Dodgers should be favored. I would never count out SAC’s $$$ though. I’m sure the red carpet is out and vault ready to empty for Yamamoto.
More international people move to NYC then LA for the culture and lifestyle then LA. That’s why it’s twice the size. I don’t know where you think restaurants are better in LA.
L.A. is the second highest city in number of Japanese people residing there. Second only to Honolulu, and L.A.’s Japanese population is more than 3x NYC’s Japanese population.
Japanese people love to visit NYC, but if you ask them where they’d like to live I’m sure L.A. is a much popular answer. Much bigger Japanese communities, better access to Japanese restaurants/markets. NYC may have those ritzy glitzy high end sushi restaurants but L.A. has just as many of those and the breadth of Japanese restaurants much better than NYC, and I’ve lived in both places. 2.5x more Japanese restaurants in CA compared to NY.
I have no idea what Yamamoto values, and clearly not every Japanese player that has come over here values comfortable lifestyle. But if that is a factor I’d say L.A. has a clear edge.
Only if it wakes the sleeping Giants
Giants will match any offer made by Stevie or Guggenheim. It’s just gonna come down to where does he wanna play. He may actually want to be a New York Yankee, but I do suspect Steinbrunner will be the first of the four to blink on the size of the contract.
So, the Dodgers tell Yamamoto, We will sign you for 600 m over ten years and then defer 580M until you turn sixty-five. That gives us a 2M hit and it is still 600M, not this 480M propaganda. Who cares what the adjusted value of the money would be. The Dodgers still has to pay out 700 M from 2034 – 2045. What happens if the value increases, will the fans then say, oops, 700 M that is now worth a billion dollars isn’t really a billion dollars because the fans say so.
No, for many reasons. One, Yamamoto doesn’t have the endorsement power that Ohtani does. At least not now. So, he’s less likely to accept/offer up deferred money. Two, the Dodgers have deferred dollars to both Betts and Ohtani. Don’t think that they would want to add more $ in deferrals. So, nice try but quite illogical.
If $700 million is worth more than $700 million in 10 years, We have way more problems than a contract in baseball
What happens if the value increases,
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It won’t if they don’t want it to. The basics are:
1-They pay $2M in 2025.
2-They owe $44M ($46M – $2M). They invest in a ten-year treasury. In ten years, that yields the $68M they still owe.
300 million dollars, with 260 million being deferred.
Not as of late, but once the Yankees got Soto, a lot of people went back to calling them The Evil Empire again. But if the Dodgers get Ohtani AND Yamamoto, I think we have a new villain in baseball.
Yankees earned that nickname by dominating the league for a decade.
Yes, Ruth and Gehrig were great.
How about for almost a century, with a few short breaks here and there.
@Huck Don’t remind me of those dark periods.
Most of us weren’t alive during those eras of the 1920’s to the 1960’s.
I had to grow up with their fans in the 60’s. It was tough being a Mets fan. But the decade ended well. :^)
Right @YBC, but there were few of them. You are blessed – you’ve enjoyed far more good ones than the rest of us.
@Huck Lol. I started following MLB during the Don Mattingly era in the mid 80s. They were awful then but I do appreciate how good we as fans have it.
The Yanks got that nickname because a massive Roid Sux fan complete with Roid Sux carpet in his office ran ESPN and had his network spew it.
I think it happened over Jose Contreras. The RS booked out every single hotel room in a Nicaraguan city where negotiations were being held with him. Yankees had to stay elsewhere. Yet they still lost him to the Yankees.
Yankees dominated but most of the players were homegrown if you’re referring to the 90’s and 00’s. Late 70’s and 80’s they definitely were evil.
@padam
I’m sorry, but they weren’t evil, they were more like comedy villains. For Billy Martin & George Steinbrenner see Laurel & Hardy, with a couple of more realistic fights.
They only won twice in 70’s & not at all in 80’s. It would have been a very interesting experience to work with them then…
Shohei could play in the same league as Rick Vaughn, and make a killing…. not the same with moto moto
Plus Urias and Bauer back on board!
*Cue the whining*
Cue all the ohtani contract cry babies
Done deal he’s a dodger just a formality to do all this visit stuff.
Queue the deluded dodger fans who can’t comprehend basic manipulation of taxes and payroll. The league put a kibosh on the dodgers taking on debt to fund their spending, so now they are deferring contracts instead. This is what happens when your team is owned by an investment firm with more money than God. Enjoy those ticket and concession prices, you’ll need a second mortgage to attend.
This guy must love taxes and tax season.
Boo hoo double those tissues
Found the homer
Queue the financially illiterate who know nothing of money growth, or MLB rules on funding deferrals.
Tigers3232;
Or how to work the system. Take advantage of the rules. Make them work for you. Some of the commenters better take a tax course or get a new tax accountant!
All this to get knocked out of the first round of the playoffs.
At least they’re trying?
Yes, that’s happened the past two years but they also made the World Series three out of the last 10 times. I’ll take that any day on any team. Winning or not.
Glad he decided to have his meeting after the signing was official, at this point just sign the contract already.
やあ、ジョーの時間だよ！
Joke’s on him – California will be under water in 2050 when he gets paid.
Uh no. You’re thinking of Florida with a high point of 342 feet. LA County alone gets up above 10k feet.
I come here for the geography lessons!
Jokes on both of you, the fog is coming and will engulf the world in 2029
What happens in 2032 when Godzilla comes did none of you think of that??
Well California is 75% of nothing but a litter box of a desert already with no water.
Just saw on Twitter Dodgers are “on the verge” of acquiring Tyler Glasnow and Manuel Margot.
Oh no not the 30 year old pitcher that has only made 20 plus starts in one season.
Now it’s being reported that the Dodgers are gonna get Glasnow and Arozarana from the Rays.
What! Who’s tweeting this?
I saw it in a discord post. But It’s from guy named Borna Narzari. However I am taking it with a grain a of salt. A literal single grain.
It hasn’t been post on here. I don’t believe it.
Well I certainly don’t doubt that it *could* happen. The Dodgers have already been rumored as a trade partner for the Rays. Guess we’ll have to see. Most likely there’s a trade if Yamamoto decides to go to New York.
Same source that had Ohtani on a flight to Toronto to sign his contract.
Well everyone is talking about a possible Dodgers-Rays deal now, including Rosenthal. So there’s definitely smoke and fire.
A rotation with Buehler, Glasgow, Yamamoto, Sheehan, and Miller would be one of the nost solid groups in baseball. Dodgers are trying to spend and get the pieces to win it all this year. Got to respect the effort after the playoff loss. They will be hard to beat next season if they acquire all the talent they are after
No, they are desperate to erase the stench of that asterisk “championship” a few years ago.
Sounds like someone’s team didn’t win.
Yeah the toughest run for any world series championship asterisk for the losers
Are you talking about the 2017 Astros or 2018 Red Sox?
Highway menace
I just saw your name on Wikipedia under the definition of “troll”
Hwm
“No, they are desperate to erase the stench of that asterisk “championship” a few years ago.”
Very very smart comment
What a terrible idea it was to win in 2020. I can’t believe they were the only team dumb enough to win the World Series that year.
Chokeshaw the closer. Hahaha
good thing we have a luxury tax so the league remains competitive and teams that pay $700MM for one star player are not able to afford any other free agents. Looking forward to the California clash between Dodgers and A’s next season.
Who is this player who will be paid $700M solely by a TEAM. Much of Ohtani’s contract($240M) will be paid through interest on base of deferred monies being invested, not by the Dodgers. Hence the luxury tax hit of $46M, that is what the Dodgers will be paying in reality, the rest will be income generated by interest.
I doubt he will be paid with money earned from interest. The whole point of the deferral is not to invest the millions saved to pay him a higher salary later – it is to have cash available now (not invested) in order to make the Dodgers more competitive.
If they were going to invest the money, they might as well just pay him now and be done with it…unless they believe they can outearn the projected interest…
@Nugget, doubt all you want there are rules in their CBA in regards to funding any deferred $.
It is not a choice of the Dodgers. Deferred $ is nothing new, so it has rules and stipulations. Did you think they just arbitrarily came up with the $46M AAV # for luxury tax purposes?
Small market fans lol.
It takes two teams to play a game. Two good teams to get attention.
At this rate the smaller market teams have no shot. Their local fans have no reason to buy in and support them.
A league of six big market teams doesn’t sound fun.
What a lot of people don’t realize is that a lot of the owners of small market teams are just as loaded as some of the big market teams. A lot of small market owners like to pocket all the money they get from the penalty taxes that big markets teams incur when going over the tax thresholds. MLB needs to get more owners in place who want to win and are willing to spend money to do it.
The only reason large market teams have this much money is there are enough suckers to rotate through the stands at $100+ per person for a full season. Smaller market teams sell out the same sized stadiums, but have to keep prices lower to do so. The only suckers in this scenario are the fans of large market teams who get hosed to see one game a year for the price as 3-4 games a year, elsewhere.
It’s really the TV money that separates the markets.
The Dodgers get a reported $344 million per year.
The Pirates get about $50 million per year.
The ticket and sponsorship revenue is also larger, but not $290 million larger.
Stupid statement.
I go to Yankee games.
Yankee tickets don’t cost $100.
Even if they did, what makes it a sucker bet? I spend my money as I see fit.
What is it that’s making you laugh out loud?
Ahh, we should all be fans of large market teams right? Doesn’t matter where we are born as long we can jump the bandwagon with the Dodgers. As a matter a fact we should all abandon ship and buy an Ohtani Jersey! MLB only needs to be four teams anyway.
300 million, all deferred, nothing but Kohls Cash for duration of contract.
You can get some nice under armour attire with kohls cash.
All payment deferred until the year 2112, when the meek have inherited the earth.
The Athletics?
WE ARE THE PRIESTS
“Attention all planets of the Solar Federation…”
The Jedi will be back in power by then.
Meeting with Babe Ruth, Cy Young, Ted Williams, Hank Aaron, Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMagio and signing them to lifetime contracts.
All deferred money of course. Pretty much signing anyone with a pulse and well without one as well.
It only makes sense that the Dodgers would certainly be the favorite to sign him. Thanks to Ohtani deferring money. Also it’s on the West Coast, and there’s already at least one Japanese player on the team.
Predicting a 250 year deal, 1 million per year.
THIS IS MY SURPRISED FACE
Sad.
He’ll get paid $400 million over 82 years with a CBT hit of negative $6 million.
Can they get an advance on that 6mil in equity though?
Well, for those who say that a limit on deferrals should happen. Then why don’t everyone stop watching games, going to games, buying clothes. Ultimately the mlb is banking on the average joe to just take it and run the game off money & business. But if 90 percent of fans were to quit supporting baseball. Then they wouldn’t have what they look at us as workers watching & paying. That’s how you cut down the spending if they aren’t going to do anything about it. Power is giving not earned. So the less you give the less they have power. Easy answer. 101.
I doubt there are many who would stop supporting the sport just because they’re upset about the salary structure of a player. Some may say they will, very few actually will. And those who do are probably flight risks for leaving the sport beforehand anyway for various reasons. I mean really, if it genuinely has that much impact on someone’s day, one has to question their priorities.
Does Shohei having deferred money affect my day? No. It’s entertainment, people. Get some perspective.
But you can choose what entertainment to watch. Go for a jog, watch a movie, a night with friends, nice alternatives to wasting time on a scripted outcome.
We all know it will be the Dodgers vs Yankees at the end. Outside of LA and NY it’s just ho hum.
Wait Texas and Arizona were int he World Series last season. The Yankees didn’t make the playoffs and the Dodgers, with our massive payroll, got swept. Stop crying and hope your team gets hot at the right time.
A lot of bitterness towards the Dodgers for doing what every single team is able and allowed to do.
Every team is allowed to steal signs or I should say was. You could camp out at second and relay signs to the hitter.
Accepted, yes. Respected, no. Borderline dirty, absolutely.
@towinagain
Wait.
The Dodgers’ deal with Ohtani is “borderline dirty”…?
That’s…quite something to think.
I believe you are dead wrong. It has always been a part of the game. Is stealing/reading a third base coaches signals cheating? But glancing back at a catcher’s signals is a no-no. Or used to be before the technical/automatic method was implemented. I like the unwritten rules! Makes the game unique!
Just like bat flipping, because that gets a very similar total of criticism to sign stealing, although it mostly just simply breaks the fragile egos of some pitchers, while sign stealing upsets the entire team.
So if the Padres signed him would Dodgers fans be complaining?
No, the Padres went on a spending spree last year and DOdgers fans weren’t complaining. In fact, we openly mocked them for overspending on Bogaerts.
That’s always the funny part. Teams with higher payrolls complaining about teams with lower payrolls, that are managed better,
Dodgers could definitely use Yamamoto and Wacha. Possibly a trade for Glasnow or Cease as well. Team will want to make a great first impression for Shohei.
Why not just send all the best players to the Dodgers? Would be so “good for baseball.”
Small market team owners agreed to the cba go whine to them
True, but they won’t change anything. Outside the bubbles in LA and NY, nobody cares.
That’s one of the major problems. Most of the national baseball media are New York and LA fanboys. They tout these deals as fantastic for the game and everyone falls in line. Even Chris Russo did a complete 180 yesterday after his over lords probably told him the Yankees were planning the same contract with Soto. I get the point of deferred money for small/ mid market teams but it certainly wasn’t set up for the richest franchises to manipulate a way to add two more 30 million dollar players to their already stacked teams.
it certainly wasn’t set up for the richest franchises to manipulate a way to add two more 30 million dollar players to their already stacked teams.
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Even if they add YY for $30M, their payroll be lower than the NYY, NYM, Atl, and Philly.
An easy deflection to use, and a massive assumption to make that these vocal people only whine on message boards. Half the comments on any small or mid-market team’s media feeds are about how their owners need to sell the team to someone who cares, or how Player X needs to get shipped off to North Korea to make room for Player Y.
Just because a fan’s team owner(s) are functionally incapable of recognizing the impacts their decisions have on the game doesn’t mean that fan’s thoughts on the matter are invalid.
dougdeb@
Just heard he got on a plane headed to KC!!!
Does Anthony Franco work for CNN? Dodgers are not 17m below the threshold. Stop spreading fake news!
You mean msm
You surely meant Fox News pertaining to the fake news.
They’re all trash.
The Dodgers have ruined baseball with their reckless spending. They should be barred from talking with any free agent for the next decade.
Go to bed crybaby
That’s rather juvenile.
Do all the fans and posters not understand that deferred money does not equal deferred salary cap. Even though $680mil is deferred, $46mil a year still counts against the Dodgers salary cap. Teams like deferred money for cash flow reasons so that they don’t run into times of the year where they have to pay out huge sums in bonuses. (Padres had to borrow cash to have cash flow this summer). Deferred money also accrues interest so its like a high yield savings account for the player. Ohtani makes $50mil on endorsements so he doesn’t need it in the short term. The Dodgers also make $334 mil a year from their TV contract so 1) they can afford their position and penalties and 2) by the time money is owed on the back end, they’ll be renegotiating their TV contract and it could go to $500mil+ by then.
We understand. Our contention is that the Dodgers should either have to sign him for $460M and take a $46M CBT hit or sign him for $700M and take a $70M CBT hit regardless of when the money actually changes hands. Especially because they are paying him $700M to play baseball for the next ten years, starting next year.
Not sure you do understand. The Dodgers aren’t paying him $700m to play baseball for the next ten years. For that they are paying him $20m. The rest they are paying him in the ten years afterwards to not play baseball. The difference makes all the difference.
Who cares when they pay him if it is counting towards the cap today and over the next 10 years. It gives them zero advantage from a competitive standpoint and only an advantage from an accounting perspective. The Mets are still paying Bonilla, the Reds are still paying Ken Griffey, the Nationals will be paying Strasburg forever.
It doesn’t really give them an advantage from an accounting standpoint. The rules require the present value to count against the CBT now the money will be the books and come due. What it gives them is more flexibility now.
Not sure you do understand.
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He doesn’t understand. And it is likely hopeless trying to explain.
Thanks DD. A few of the whiners have finally figured this out; but most have not. Amazing how people need to scapegoat and rationalize.
The fact that this has been done in the past, and in many cases by the same teams these people root for is irrelevant. People are jealous.
Right you are, because they think it’s fine if their favorite team or any other certain lesser marker does it, but if the Dodgers, Yankees, Red Sox or really any other big market team does it, they get very flaky.
The Tigers can afford to and should out pay everyone to sign Yamamoto. And then next offseason pick up Soto in FA, and then comes the emergence of Max Clark and they are suddenly super competitive for many years to come.
Yes that wouldn’t make them super competitive for years to come.
I love your enthusiasm A7… keep the faith, seriously. Detroit has a rich and successful history in baseball. They WILL be back!!
Not a lot of players want to play in Detroit. Detroit is not a dream destination.
Dodger “fans” prepare for a magical 160-2 season. Then the injuries hit.
So, if the Dodgers get Yamamoto, do they dethrone the Yankees, and assume the role of “the evil empire”?
Lol you have to actually win something for people to bother nicknaming..
Kershaw is not even mentioned in Dodgers pitching rotation articles anymore. Wow.
Isn’t he out for most of the year?
Yes, Kershaw is out for 2024 after shoulder surgery…
I thought he was only out the first half?
Ted, No definitive answer. Kershaw “hopes” to return this Summer. I think he’s trying to keep positive.
Shoulders do not always cooperate
The guy is a free agent, and in rehab after surgery. He probably wants to spend as much time as he can with family, and not flying around recruiting players. He isn’t the type that likes to recruit anyway.
Angel fan here, so no warm fuzzy feelings for the Dodgers.
The Dodgers patiently calculated and executed a business plan to acquire Shohei.
This is an investment and not an expense, and all fits into of the Dodgers plan.
The Dodgers plan demonstrates how far better run they are than most teams. Especially the Angels I have to admit.
Don’t be surprised if that plan includes Yamamoto.
I still think the Dodgers have some holes and need some luck on their side to win a championship. Like any team really
Total silence on the Blake Snell front. That will change once Yamamoto signs.
Giants for Snell? Perhaps LAD if they miss on Yamamoto?
Snell isn’t the better pitcher. He only pitches 5 innings a game on average and barely has any longevity.
Wrong link for Will Smith there.
Someone is gonna get slapped for that.
Dodgers: Hey, we’re building a super team in hopes of winning the next 10 years of world series. We’re willing to pay you $500M over 10 years but $490M would need to be deferred until 2050. Are you interested in joining or will you be joining one of those teams that ultimately knocks us out of the first round, each year?
keep ruining baseball. Such a joke
Hahahaha
Robby the robot says it’s ok though.
Your team was in the World Series last year. WTF are you crying about?
He knows they are aren’t going back for the next 10 years.
Beep, beep beep. As the truck backs up. Get em all.
The Dodgers are going for the free agent jugular this offseason. They would absolutely kill it with Yamamoto joining Ohtani, something I fully expect now.
The Dodgers are loaded, and looking to add more top flight players. They also have what no other team has, Dave Roberts at the helm to screw it all up.
LOL! If I was Andrew Friedman. I’d insist Roberts stay home during the Yamamoto meet-and greet.
Please enlighten me. Why is he so unliked?
Friedman is disliked partly because some Dodger fans feel he has been at fault for all the early exits the Dodgers have endured in the playoffs for not acquiring the right players, much in the same way Brian Cashman is disliked for some of the moves he’s made. There is no shortage of second guessers around to express their ire.
At some point you aren’t second guessing, you are just looking at what happened. Roberts is there to play the Friedman game plan. That’s how he got his job, and how he keeps it. It’s the gripers about Roberts who aren’t making any sense.
Haven’t spent a lot of time here recently, or ever, for that matter, but what does the little gold badge by some of the commenter’s names signify? Some connection to MLBTRs perhaps?
Pathetic Dodgers wh**I go out their big three and Smith to buy yet another superstar to further ruin an already corrupt sport. Congrats, you’ll peer pressure Yamamoto into signing up for an easy ring with his fellow country mate.
Sucks to be you.
Signing doesn’t guarantee any ring. Dodgers have one ring in the past fifteen years and it has an asterisk to their name. Several years the Dodgers have been the best team but they won only once. Your point?
Teams should beat them at their own game. Even of Shohei has deferred money, they’re going to feel the heat of paymemt somewhere down the line.
Shohei was truly a risky trade and they’re stuck with him now. He probably pitches again but no one knows for sure.
No one knows what the hell you are saying.
Basically, the money will hit them at some point. It was a risky move to sign him that long at his sge.
Dodgers are dealing if they get both Glasnow and Yamamoto. I don’t think that happens, but who knows
There should be a new rule in the cba
If your teams fan base has 50.1% of its grown men crying, about other teams making moves that are available to any ballclub, you should forfeit your 1st round pick.
Ohtani probably hosted at his house a Japanese BBQ and slumber party for Yamamoto.
This won’t be a popular opinion…..but as a Yankees fan I’m saying no thank you to Yamo at the discussed price tag. Why? How many Smurf aces have there been in the last 30-40 years? Pedro and Maddux. Two all time greats…..but definitely two outliers.
If I’m Cashman…..who just lost what 8-10 pitching prospects in a WEEK…..I’m trading for Burnes & signing Monty.
Cole, Burns, Rodon, Monty and Nestor >> Cole, Yamo, Rodon, Nestor and Schmidt
A Rangers reliever is going to catch for the Dodgers if they sign Yamamoto?
Read a report Dodgers are linked to signing God and deferring 8 billion souls
Sign ’em for $350M and defer $349m of it and ten years from now we will have MLB teams payrolls having deferrals outpacing current players. amounts
If the Dodgers want to win, get rid of manager Dave Roberts who has really underachieved and bring in Buck Showalter who I believe is available.
Yes, he was the runner up to Ron Washington when the Angels needed a new manager.
He’s never won a World Series. How is he better than Robert’s.
Wonder how the Giants, D-Backs, and Padres feel, Dodgers reloaded and are now in beast mode. You can add the rest of the NL for that matter. They will not just be the favorites, but will be failures if they lose!
I’m just hoping there is something to the whole Masataka Yoshida/ Yoshinobu Yamamoto friendship story but (like most people) money is probably Yamamoto’s priority and who can blame him. The Red Sox have become notorious for bungling opportunities to sign/re-sign free agents so I doubt he ends up in Boston. Don’t know why he would want to pitch there anyways, there’s lots of other teams that are willing to pay for his services who have a legitimate shot at the World Series.