You knew the Los Angeles Dodgers had money to spare even after signing Shohei Ohtani to a $700 million deal, thanks to the pitcher/slugger agreeing to take a ton of deferred money to help the team win now.
And they’ve used that cash to sign Yoshinobu Yamamoto to an astounding 12-year (!) $325 million (!!) contract late on Thursday night. There was talk that the contract for the 25-year-old Japanese hurler could go over $300 million and that’s exactly what happened as the reported bidding got higher and higher.
The big surprise is the amount of years, but we’ll get to that. Here are the winners and losers of this deal: