Yoshinobu Yamamoto has signed a historic record breaking 12 year
,$325 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers who
are building a super rotation. Yes, a super
team we've documented on this program and others on the
network for the last three months. Cam how good
this guy is. Uh there was speculation he was
gonna get upwards of 2250 then we started hearing a
three in front of the number and it settles in
at 325 to the Dodgers who have spent ready over
a billion dollars on three dudes,$1 billion.
I mean, it, it seemed like it seems
like the Dodgers are trying to just take over the
baseball world right now as they continue to stack the
deck with aces. And you look at this guy
25 years old. I think when you sign a
deal like this, I think it says a lot
of things and one thing that it says is,
I don't think we missed on this guy. It's
yet to be seen. But when you, you
tout a guy this, you know, highly touted
, you give him this type of deal uh you
know, it also what makes you wonder was this
Otani thing calculated from the beginning? You know,
this is a guy who I watched some clips of
the W BC and you could almost see him,
you know, looking up to Otani, you could
see the respect, admiration as he goes up to
him, he shakes his hand. So you wonder
, you know, was this calculated and, and
this is, and then another thing, this is
the first time at that, we've seen two Japanese
stars play together together for the first time in the
history of our game. So that's exciting for baseball
. I know a lot of Dodger hate is probably
going on right now, but what they're doing right
now is impressive and, and let's just blame the
Diamondbacks. This is Diamondbacks fault with the early exit
. I know kicking the Dodgers in the teeth last
this past season, I think it woke them up
and they realized we can never have enough starting death
. And what scares me is, are they done
? What do they do now? It's interesting.
What you guys are talking about with the, uh
, the, the big winner of the off season
doesn't always translate, but the big winner of the
off season is usually a team that had a disappointing
year before, not one that had 100 plus wins
. And yeah, there was a disappointment in the
postseason, but this team was already built to go
back and contend again and now they've added three mega
stars in Glass now and Otani and Yamamoto. So
, uh you know, I think the Dodgers certainly
let it be known that they have no plans of
a first round exit this year. They have,
this is World Series or Bust. And you really
have to look at the Otani contract and the way
that it was set up with all the deferred money
, he did that so they can go out and
sign other players. Well, they certainly did that
. They went out and spent more money on a
tour pitcher than anybody's ever spent before. Let's let's
expand the conversation then mark, I mean, the
historic nature of this contract is what it is.
Uh, there's shock value, there's awe, there's
all the great things that we look forward to as
fans. If you're a fan of the Mets or
the Yankees, uh, do you tip your cap
and you say he went to a higher bid,
he went to a place geographically he preferred or are
you shaking your fist at the TV? This morning
, the Mets offered him the same contract. As
a matter of fact, the Mets offered the contract
first and then the Dodgers matched it. So,
unless Steve's calling and come back and said, ok
, let's make it 350 or 375 or 15 years
or, you know, unless you had just gone
above and beyond, uh, it was clear that
that if the offers were even, uh, the
Dodgers were going to win out on this. Obviously
, the Yankees offered 300 million over 10 years.
They actually a higher A AV uh, but again
, more money in L A as a total.
And I think the allure of, of playing with
Otani and going to the Dodgers and the star studded
team. And when the Dodgers met him, they
brought in O Tony, they brought in Mookie Betts
, they brought in Freddie Freeman. They said,
look, look at this team. You can come
play with the Yankees had a similar type of star
studded team and they said, hey, we've got
Aaron Judge and Juan Soto and you can pitch your
rotation with Garrett Cole. The Mets, I think
are a little bit different. You know, when
they made their trade last year with Verlander and Scherzer
, it was sort of like, all right,
we're going to take a step back and maybe look
towards 2025. This was the one guy they were
willing to say we're all in for him because he's
25 years old. Um But I think in the
end he wanted to be a Dodger much like Otani
did. And once you saw the way that was
structured and that they were really only paying 46 million
on the C BT every year, not 70.
And they were only outlay$2 million a year to
Otani, not 70. Uh all of a sudden
it was, well, they, they really have
a lot of money left to get somebody and uh
now they're gonna be teammates for many years to come
here in L A. Honestly from the beginning,
it's, it's my arrival with my family. We
felt very, very welcome, just the way everyone
in the organization welcomed us and just very grateful for
all the, all the support that was given to
us, everything from my citizenship process to, to
being able to gel and be together with the staff
, the coaches, the players, all of that
kind of combined, uh just, just made it
the right fit. Definitely, definitely, we were
at the doorstep of, of making history. We
kind of came up a little bit short being able
to get the ring and it's definitely a huge motivation
for me to wanna come back and, and be
part of that and, and get over that,
uh get, get to that uh ultimate goal for
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