Episode 290: Dodgers Ridiculous Spending

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Grant Napear

Sports, Football, Basketball

4.7 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The Dodgers have agreed to a 12-year $325 million dollar deal with Japanese pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto. This comes on the heels of the Dodgers signing Shohei Ohtani for $700 million over 10 years. Oh yeah, the Dodgers also have to pay an additional $50 million to Yamamoto's previous team in Japan. On today's episode I talk about the broken sport of baseball and the unbalance among the teams in MLB. I also reflect on the days before players demanding trades and free agency. Gosh, I miss those times! I don't see any upside to a team paying two players over $1 billion total dollars. I think this is bad for the sport of baseball which already has many problems. If you're a Dodgers man, maybe it's great, but I'm not even sure about that! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now, Grand Nation! And hi again everybody I hope that you are doing well so great to have you with me on if you don't like that
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0:55.0	So let me get this straight.
0:58.2	The Los Angeles Dodgers have signed two players this off season totally more than one billion dollars.
1:09.6	That's right, billion. After the young Japanese pitcher Yamamoto agreed to a 12-year
1:18.3	325 million million contract.
1:23.0	That's right.
1:25.0	25 years old, a pitcher who throws heat,
1:31.0	who's very small in stature, all right?
1:35.0	He's 510, 176 pounds.
1:41.0	Fastball goes up to 99. He's got a really effective split-fingered fastball. So I'm asking
1:49.9	you, how long will it be before like Otani he's out with Tommy John's surgery two
1:59.2	months four months year, two years.
2:05.0	And here's the other issue.
2:07.0	The Dodgers who have really not won a World Series since 1988,
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