The Los Angeles Dodgers won the biggest free agent sweepstakes of all time. For the next nine years, it will cost them roughly what it would have cost to rent a midrotation starting pitcher for one season.
Shohei Ohtani will wear Dodger blue next April. Ohtani’s six years with the Los Angeles Angels, not far from the Dodgers’ home in Chavez Ravine, were famous for two things: the joint brilliance of Ohtani and fellow future Hall of Famer Mike Trout and the Angels’ cataclysmic inability to convert the two of them into a competitive team. The 2023 team briefly looked as if it would make a change before everything fell apart spectacularly.
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