This is the return of a big player in the FA market. The LA Dodgers is now the overwhelming winner of the 2023-2024 FA market even if it does nothing.
ESPN Jeff Bankruptcy settled the FA market investment of 30 major league teams on his X on the 18th (Korea time). The Los Angeles Dodgers, which held super-special FA Shohei Ohtani (29) for 10 years and 700 million dollars, is the overwhelming No. 1.
According to X of bankruptcy, the No. 1 Dodgers spent 717 million U.S. dollars. Of course, it invested 700 million dollars in Ohtani alone. This does not include Tyler Glesnow, who was recently acquired in a trade with the Tampa Bay Rays,’s five-year, 136.5 million-dollar extension contract.
In addition, the Dodgers is not lagging behind in the race to recruit Yoshinobu Yamamoto, another FA’s biggest fish. It effectively had a three-way race with the New York Mets and the New York Yankees. If the team wins the race to recruit Yamamoto, it is certain that it will invest 1 billion U.S. dollars in the FA market alone.
The Philadelphia Phillies are second with $172 million. Aaron Nola invested in just one player. The gap between Dodgers and Philadelphia is $545 million. The Arizona Diamondbacks are third with $122 million, followed by the San Francisco Giants with $113 million. The San Francisco Giants are fifth with $135 million. 헤라카지노
Meanwhile, the traditional New York Yankees have yet to spend even a dollar in the FA market. They are competing with the Dodgers for Yamamoto. The San Diego Padres, who have dominated the FA in recent years, have turned to a fake cut and spent less than a dollar. The New York Mets have also spent only 18 million dollars.
Bankruptcy told his X, “We still have about $2 billion left in the FA market. Just because a team hasn’t spent money yet doesn’t mean its winter will collapse. There are some interesting teams that haven’t participated in the FA market. And if Ohtani’s $700 million value is taken into account instead of the current $460 million contract he signed with the Dodgers, Ohtani alone accounts for 43.6% of the FA market’s total expenditure.”
In one way or another, Dodgers and Ohtani signed a big deal that will remain in major league and world sports history forever. In addition, Dodgers has been properly rewarded for extremely refraining from investing heavily in FA over the past year or two. It attracted Ohtani and Glesnow with exquisite deferral provisions, and if Yamamoto is recruited, it is expected to emerge as an overwhelming candidate for the 2024 World Series title.
