The Los Angeles Dodgers have signed Shohei Ohtani in a contract that is both enormous and team-friendly. Ohtani's decision to prioritize winning led him to choose the Dodgers over the Los Angeles Angels.
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 The conclusion Ohtani reached from his time in Anaheim is now clear: that nothing matters as much as winning does. And so the Dodgers will benefit from a contract that appears (and frankly is) enormous, but is actually so comically team-friendly that it strains credulity that the Major League Baseball Players Association would even allow it. But it does make sense in satisfying each side of the contract’s top priorit
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