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Are The Dodgers Building A Dynasty?

As they come off a World Series winning 2024, the Dodgers have added more championship pieces to their roster and are now, aiming towards a dynasty - Image Credit: Bill Menzel/Latino Sports

LOS ANGELES, CA — With their acquisitions, the Dodgers have just about blown everyone in Major League Baseball away this offseason, as well as last year. My cousin Joe Sciandra told me today that “The Dodgers now have $1.4 BILLION in deferred compensation commitments. And we laugh at the Mets still paying Bobby Bonilla $1 million a year.”

Deferred $ on Active Dodgers Contracts: Shohei Ohtani: $680M, Mookie Betts: $115M, Blake Snell: $66M, Freddie Freeman: $57M, Will Smith: $50M, Tommy Edman: $25M, Teoscar Hernández: $23.5M, Tanner Scott: $21M

Total: $1.375B

Being owned by Guggenheim Baseball Management and other wealthy investors, the Dodgers have bottomless pockets and are not afraid to spend what it takes to build a winning organization. They have a brilliantly run player development system and competent people in their front office.

The Dodgers celebrating their 2024 World Series championship after defeating the Yankees in five games – Image Credit: Bill Menzel/Latino Sports

Other teams have money but poorly run clubs. Others have drafted well but fail to develop those prospects properly. No other organization has all of these things working for them like the Dodgers. It’s not just the money spent that puts them in a league of their own.

They are deep with a boatload of talent from their farm system to the big league club. It is sour grapes on the part of the other clubs, the media and fans in general to criticize the Dodgers for always going the extra mile to stay strong make their fans happy.

In year one of Shohei Ohtani’s 10 year contract with LA, the Dodgers won the NL West, NL Pennant and Fall Classic – Image Credit: Bill Menzel/Latino Sports

And don’t think this is going to stop. They have seen a mass infusion of money coming into their coffers since the signing of Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto as the Japanese TV market, and sales of those two players’ merchandise exploded in 2024.

Ohtani and Yamamoto will be with the Dodgers for nine to eleven years. They spent a lot of money on just those two stars from Japan last year and understand the adage that money makes money.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Shohei Ohtani, and Roki Sasaki joined forces in LA over the weekend as Sasaki announced he will be signing with the Dodgers on Instagram – Image Credit: Bill Menzel/Latino Sports

The signings of Hyeseong Kim, Teoscar Hernández, Tanner Scott, Blake Snell, Kirby Yates (reported this morning) and, of course, the big prize, Roki Sasaki, so far this offseason, has sent a message to all those cheap owners, except for the Mets’ Steven A. Cohen, that they are not going to sit on their laurels of winning a World Series Championship last year.

They are setting themselves up to become a dynasty.

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