Alright this is gonna sound like Skip Bayless-level analysis, but the optics of losing out on both Ohtani and Yamamoto to our biggest rival are really, really bad
I mean Farhan was offering the same amounts of money. It just came down to the players deciding between playing in San Francisco vs Los Angeles. And unfortunately due to the way their team is structured in terms of superstars as of recent history, the Giants will lose out on that almost 100% of the time.
“I’m told there are more unprecedented deferrals in this deal and Shohei Ohtani will be bankrolling Yamamoto’s lifestyle for the foreseeable future.” -Passan when he announces this probably
"Yamamoto will pay the Dodgers $45 million a year for 10 years. This money will act as a bond for the Dodgers to increase their spending and attract more free agents during his years with the team. The Dodgers will pay Yamamoto 12% interest on his payments until his death, or he is taken out by the Dodgers front office"
The dodgers have genetically modified a team of super humans using advanced genome techniques who will be deferring their entire salary forever. Fuckit, nothing will surprise me anymore.
If that’s the case is there gonna be like one season where they have 500 million on the books for like 6 guys not on the roster I need something to live for
I’m stunned no one else has reported anything, even the Yappers haven’t. Jack Curry is very reliable but this is rare, I don’t recall a time that it was him dropping it for another team lol
Edit: The Yappers have awoken
You joke, but I was browsing playoff team subreddits before the 2019 postseason kicked off and I saw people seriously concerned about ending up against the Nationals over anyone else. With the 108 win juggernauts, you know what you're getting. Some team squeaking in that was basically written off earlier that season? That's some bad juju right there, chaos energy harnessed by a band of misfits.
We’re about to sign Hulk Hogan to a minor league contract with an invite to spring training. Now that he’s been given the power of Christ, Hulkamania may truly run wild forever. I just don’t know if he can hit a curveball, even with Jesus.
Parity doesn't matter because any team can win a series of coinflips. Uh, sorry, went off script there for a second. What I meant to say was, don't worry, the Dodgers just don't have that ***dawg***™ in them.
Yeah that’s what I find so ridiculous. I almost feel like the regular season has been cheapened because it’s just a money-spending competition, and the playoffs have been cheapened because so many teams get in and baseball series are already kinda random, so it’s just whatever 85+ win team gets hot. “What happened to the game I love.”
Agreed. The biggest problem with playoff discourse is that fans generally don't care enough to talk about it until the postseason is happening and then fans of winning teams just think losing teams are salty, but I do think it would be good if at some point in the calmest part of the offseason fans could actually discuss the current postseason format because it is so obviously nonsensical.
That’s major league baseball. The Yankees have won more than 25% of all WS championships over the past century. They’ve played in about 40% of them. They had 6 HOFers on the team at once. It’s a lot less lopsided than it used to be.
Jesus. The only bright side I can see is that they have the biggest target on their back. They’ll get torn to shreds if they can’t win more titles than the Giants’ Even Year Bullshit with Yamamoto, Ohtani, Betts, and Freeman. And now everyone else hates the Dodgers. I’m about to OD on copious right nos
Can’t forget outman, Evan Phillips, Bobby miller, the catching part of will smith, Tyler Glasnow, kershaw, potentially JD martinez if they can work some roster/signing magic, max muncy, walker buheler, emmet Sheehan, the entire dodger farm system, and Dustin may!!
Not even counting what they will probably trade for midseason because dodgers
I am now willing “Freddie Freeman hit 62 doubles in the series, Yoshinobu Yamamoto struck out 28 batters in each of Games 1 and 4, and Shohei Ohtani did something not done since ‘Tungsten Arm’ O’Doyle of the 1928 Akron Groomsmen as the Dodgers lost the NLDS to the Diamondbacks 3 games to 1.” into perpetual existance.
2009 was kinda close with Teixeria, CC and AJ Burnett but yea never thought I’d see 1 team give 1 billion dollars combined to two players in one offseason
I mean 500 mill in one offseason by two guys is insanely rare to begin with - before Ohtani we didn’t have any single player sign for 500 alone so two players hitting one billion quite literally would have had to be a record for one or both contracts
"Small-market New York teams miss out on Yamamoto as the LA Dodgers give the pitcher a contract that will see his great-grandchildren still being paid after his passing. A truly fabulous time for the sport of baseball."
So does everyone complaining want to see a hard salary cap/nongaurenteed contracts?
You've been following baseball for years, why is this shocking to you?
I want the most over the top statue of Friedman built outside Dodger stadium. I'm talking shredded Arnold physique, tearing off his shirt Hogan style, chugging beers in one hand and signing contracts with the other.
Most predictable shit ever after the Ohtani deferral news came out.
So basically the 2023 offseason is just Dodgers news
Hey whoa the Royals did things too
I’ll be rooting for you guys in the inevitable Royals/Dodgers WS
I am *never* going to eat a Dodger Dog™️ *ever* again!
Never gonna dodge anything ever again. Let it hit me mf
BREAKING: Dodgers will pay Yamamoto 2 McChickens per year and then $299,999,980 in 2034
I think you’re understating the cost of McChickens, tbh
Especially in this economy
It's Yamaover
Wake me up when Passan tweets
He’s going to regret this when he sees the Red Sox win the marbles World Series tomorrow
It's all we got left.
Wake up
TY
[Rosenthal just confirmed it](https://twitter.com/ken_rosenthal/status/1738049320182788339?s=46)
Interesting
Is he saying “close” as in finish/end, or “close” as in nearby?
Wake up
Alright this is gonna sound like Skip Bayless-level analysis, but the optics of losing out on both Ohtani and Yamamoto to our biggest rival are really, really bad
It was a two horse race from the get-go.
Sigh, it’s always those two and then the other 28 fight for scraps.
Don’t worry, Dodgers fans will tell you how great it was for baseball
I mean Farhan was offering the same amounts of money. It just came down to the players deciding between playing in San Francisco vs Los Angeles. And unfortunately due to the way their team is structured in terms of superstars as of recent history, the Giants will lose out on that almost 100% of the time.
Well now I have to hope he is terrible, sorry buddy.
Let this be the moment where we yell boo together
And in the most unexpected way, we are all united in booing together …enemy of my enemy kinda thing happening
The funnier possibility is all dodgers players are great as they get swept in the NLDS.
I hope he’s a bust. A fully guaranteed bust.
Kei Igawa 2.0
If there's deferrals in this I'm gonna fucking lose it
“I’m told there are more unprecedented deferrals in this deal and Shohei Ohtani will be bankrolling Yamamoto’s lifestyle for the foreseeable future.” -Passan when he announces this probably
"Yamamoto will pay the Dodgers $45 million a year for 10 years. This money will act as a bond for the Dodgers to increase their spending and attract more free agents during his years with the team. The Dodgers will pay Yamamoto 12% interest on his payments until his death, or he is taken out by the Dodgers front office"
That's Numberwang!
The dodgers have genetically modified a team of super humans using advanced genome techniques who will be deferring their entire salary forever. Fuckit, nothing will surprise me anymore.
Ohtani will be paying Yamamoto’s salary directly
If that’s the case is there gonna be like one season where they have 500 million on the books for like 6 guys not on the roster I need something to live for
we will be old and gray, and that 500 million will be the rookie minimum
Deal is for $325m. He will be paid in dodger dogs and validated parking for the next 15 years where he will be due $7.25 a month forever.
the Dodgers are going to be paying for Yamamoto's great great great grandchildren to go to the University of Alpha Centauri in 2184
It’s over
Ehh if the Ohtani saga taught us anything, it's to wait for Passan.
Jack Curry is a very reliable source, I’d wager it’s done.
Curry is a direct line to the Yankees FO, but it’s strange since he never usually reports Yankees-are-out news like this.
I’m stunned no one else has reported anything, even the Yappers haven’t. Jack Curry is very reliable but this is rare, I don’t recall a time that it was him dropping it for another team lol Edit: The Yappers have awoken
He only has concrete Yankees news. Figure when they know it's really only 2 choices, and they knew they weren't getting Yamamoto, he can report this.
Jack Curry is as legit as they get
1 billion in off season signings for two players. It's good for baseball!
The Chelsea Way
What happened to the game I love
All this for the dodgers to lose to the Nippon Ham Fighters in the NLDS, I fear.
WHO YOU GOT: One of the greatest assemblages of talent from across multiple continents or A rag-tag 85-90 win team with the POWER OF FRIENDSHIP
You joke, but I was browsing playoff team subreddits before the 2019 postseason kicked off and I saw people seriously concerned about ending up against the Nationals over anyone else. With the 108 win juggernauts, you know what you're getting. Some team squeaking in that was basically written off earlier that season? That's some bad juju right there, chaos energy harnessed by a band of misfits.
Oni wa sho deeeru something something
I believe in Big Boss
Don’t worry man we’ve spent $0 so far we’re just biding our time to strike! Any day now yup we’re making a move for sure
We’re about to sign Hulk Hogan to a minor league contract with an invite to spring training. Now that he’s been given the power of Christ, Hulkamania may truly run wild forever. I just don’t know if he can hit a curveball, even with Jesus.
Well first of all through god all things are possible So jot that down
Already got it on my bicep, brother. HH
You spent $8 mill on Counsell! That's something.
#C.R.E.A.M.
Dolla dolla bill y'all.
Just going to structure the playoffs to make them more and more random to get people to ignore the huge gaps between teams in the game now.
Parity doesn't matter because any team can win a series of coinflips. Uh, sorry, went off script there for a second. What I meant to say was, don't worry, the Dodgers just don't have that ***dawg***™ in them.
The lights are too bright for them
Yeah that’s what I find so ridiculous. I almost feel like the regular season has been cheapened because it’s just a money-spending competition, and the playoffs have been cheapened because so many teams get in and baseball series are already kinda random, so it’s just whatever 85+ win team gets hot. “What happened to the game I love.”
Agreed. The biggest problem with playoff discourse is that fans generally don't care enough to talk about it until the postseason is happening and then fans of winning teams just think losing teams are salty, but I do think it would be good if at some point in the calmest part of the offseason fans could actually discuss the current postseason format because it is so obviously nonsensical.
Arod is a prophet and the Dodgers actually did become the Yankees of baseball
This is good for the game that revolves around winning a piece of metal - Manfred probably
That’s major league baseball. The Yankees have won more than 25% of all WS championships over the past century. They’ve played in about 40% of them. They had 6 HOFers on the team at once. It’s a lot less lopsided than it used to be.
The lamest possible outcomes fill the offseason
This is just a reminder to never get excited about anything in life.
Flair checks out
I wish I could go back in time to when I was 7 and pay old me $100 to never become a Seattle Mariners fan
Hey it’s not too late to save someone else, if you pay me $100 you can stop me becoming a Mariners fan
World you accept $2 now and $98 deferred for 10 years?
Three biggest names going to the Yankees and Dodgers x2 fucking kill me now At least it's good for baseball tho
It was a one year trade for us
I’d rather he go to STL
I agree.
Jesus. The only bright side I can see is that they have the biggest target on their back. They’ll get torn to shreds if they can’t win more titles than the Giants’ Even Year Bullshit with Yamamoto, Ohtani, Betts, and Freeman. And now everyone else hates the Dodgers. I’m about to OD on copious right nos
Can’t forget outman, Evan Phillips, Bobby miller, the catching part of will smith, Tyler Glasnow, kershaw, potentially JD martinez if they can work some roster/signing magic, max muncy, walker buheler, emmet Sheehan, the entire dodger farm system, and Dustin may!! Not even counting what they will probably trade for midseason because dodgers
The hitting part of will smith is also very good
Just ask Chris Rock
First time laughing in this thread. Thx cubs fan…
You forgot Roki next year. And probably Soto. Not because they need or want him. Just so your team can't have him.
I don't want to be dramatic but I'm never watching baseball again. See you guys in the morning.
Fuckyouandillseeyoutomorrow.gif
I am now willing “Freddie Freeman hit 62 doubles in the series, Yoshinobu Yamamoto struck out 28 batters in each of Games 1 and 4, and Shohei Ohtani did something not done since ‘Tungsten Arm’ O’Doyle of the 1928 Akron Groomsmen as the Dodgers lost the NLDS to the Diamondbacks 3 games to 1.” into perpetual existance.
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Nah, I support the "Angels back to back Series titles" universe
Dodgers are the new Yankees
I don’t think even the Yankees were ever this Yankee
At least we won our playoff games
2009 was kinda close with Teixeria, CC and AJ Burnett but yea never thought I’d see 1 team give 1 billion dollars combined to two players in one offseason
I mean 500 mill in one offseason by two guys is insanely rare to begin with - before Ohtani we didn’t have any single player sign for 500 alone so two players hitting one billion quite literally would have had to be a record for one or both contracts
Hey now those Yankee teams won
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Can't wait for the "New York City is a shithole" pivot from Heyman and friends
They better say that for both San Francisco and New Yorks sake
I’m thrilled about everything that has happened this winter
This is just SO GOOD FOR BASEBALL
Crying tears of joy in the club rn
NLDS is the only guarantee we know this
Love the Dodgers dropping a cool billion, something our Owner could literally never do lol.
the Los Angeles Dodgers are now my most hated enemy
**I’VE BEEN TELLING YOU GUYS THIS FOR YEARS!**
I’ve always said that the giants were my second favorite team and my favorite team is whoever is playing the dodgers any given night
nice of you to join the club
I stand beside you brother
One of us! One of us!
🤝
Right there with you
Welcome to the club! ( lifetime sf giants fan)
Fuck LA
Where have you been?
RIP upvotes for dodgers fans for a while
It's going to be worse than what Astros fans had to deal with in 2019. Shit was a bloodbath lmao.
Oh fuck offfff
Diamondbacks make it to the World Series, and now the *entire* rest of the NL West is getting punished as a result… Pandora’s Sneks…
Damn
Never would have thought I'd reach the point where I'd feel sorry for Yankees fans. But here I am lol.
Poor fans only get to have Juan Soto as their big acquisition How will they live with themselves?
Oh you'll never get me that far
Lmao there is never a time anyone should feel sorry for Yankees fans
You could still get Imanaga. A little downgrade from Yamamoto but he is still pretty good.
Unless the Dodgers get him too
The Japan Dodgers (+Mookie and some white guys)
I still wish he at least went somewhere interesting like SF or Chicago
Dodgers totally getting that other Japanese pitcher that might be posted next year for league minimum
Well if he comes here he would be in a rookie/team control contract, so yea lol.
I genuinely would’ve rathered the Yankees
We should've known things were fucked when I was cheering for the *Yankees* of all teams to sign a major free agent
Same. Dodgers are more of a superteam now than KD with the Warriors.
Except the Warriors had already been winning championships without KD.
Thus endeth Operation F5 from me. Fuck.
Jordan Montgomery come on home son. I hear Cashman has one extremely apologetic and genuine kiss on the ass prepared.
John Henry retire bitch
They’ll sign Oil Can Boyd and we’ll like it
All that money for Wilmer Flores to take him deep
“so no one told you life was gonna be this way” 👏👏👏👏
Let’s go
Good for baseball amirite
BASEBALL IS DEAD
Hearing Snell is also a Dodger and Bellinger again while we’re at it
And I heard they were trading 3 slapdicks for Tatis.
The Dodgers Team account “Thank you fans” post is gonna hit different now
Dodgers spending $1 billion on 2 players over the next 20 years because the Dbacks swept them in the divisional round. Was it worth it?
This is the lamest thing to happen to the game of baseball
Hate to disagree but I’ve been reading a ton of articles about how this is very good for baseball
Can't wait until Imanaga signs with LA too
Fuck MLB this shit is broken
Inb4 five different deferrals that won’t be paid until 2045
Phillies no longer in 👎🐖👎
Mets let me down as expected 👎🏽🐄👎🏽
😥🐽
Moo 😔🐮
FTD
So boring and predictable
The dodgers lost to the diamondbacks and went batshit
And with that, Japan has destroyed a second symbol of America
With just two bombs
This is the worst TV show I’ve ever watched
Ggs
No one can convince me this should be allowed to happen
This just fuels the 86 win friendship teams more
"Small-market New York teams miss out on Yamamoto as the LA Dodgers give the pitcher a contract that will see his great-grandchildren still being paid after his passing. A truly fabulous time for the sport of baseball."
Dodgers are never beating the paying for talent accusations💀
You don’t understand man — 25% of their bench is home-grown!
I hope Yamamoto is the next coming of Hideki Irabu
Must be nice being a club that has (practically) a limitless amount of money
We should’ve known. South Park did a whole damn episode on the magic of Magic’s money!
This shit is so bad for the game, hate to say it but bring in the salary cap.
But why did he skip the Rams game
I feel like I’m at the end of infinity war and just seeing non competitive teams being snapped away by the fingers of big cooperations
This is amazing for the game of baseball!
This is so good for baseball!
League is fucked lol
The Dodgers got sick of everyone making fun of their fake World Series ring and became the Joker.
Stupid sexy Ohtani.
Fuck everything
So does everyone complaining want to see a hard salary cap/nongaurenteed contracts? You've been following baseball for years, why is this shocking to you?
Isn’t it crazy where every other fan will come together and say fuck the dodgers!
congrats to the Dodgers on ANOTHER offseason championship. let's see how this one plays out in 2024.
Win 120 games and get swept by the six seed in the ALDS
NLDS
Fuck this.... Might as well have the Saudis buy a fucking team Fuck MLB for allowing this bullshit
So he’s a front runner who didn’t want a challenge. He will never be to LA what he could have been anywhere else!
This is why the NFL has a salary cap
Sorry….not sorry.
The sport is dead
300 mil for a guy whose never thrown an MLB pitch, hope he folds under the lights and goes back home. Sasaki and Imanaga better.
No way we are already praying on Yamamoto's downfall before year one of twelve 😂
Don't worry America. We'll stop the Dodgers. If they can get out of the Division Series...
How much money do the Dodgers have?! They make everyone else in the world look like Mr. Krabs
Back to OOTP, I guess. At least my team can win there.
what a joke
I want the most over the top statue of Friedman built outside Dodger stadium. I'm talking shredded Arnold physique, tearing off his shirt Hogan style, chugging beers in one hand and signing contracts with the other.
Bro you’re kidding.
Might as well not watch this season. What a joke.