Ohtani

When Shohei Ohtani agreed to play for the Dodgers, everyone won — well, almost everyone.The best player in baseball will spend the next 10 years playing for one of the sport’s signature franchises, positioning him to be featured in the postseason year after year after year.Ohtani won.The Dodgers won.Baseball won.About the only losers here were the Angels, but what’s new about that?This was a grand slam for everyone involved, Ohtani now moving to a stage worthy of his talents.Ohtani envisioned himself pitching for the…

Shohei Ohtani is a Dodger.Saying it brings chills. Hearing it brings cheers. Seeing it brings a disbelieving desire to see it again and again and again.Shohei Ohtani is a Dodger. Shohei Ohtani is a Dodger. Shohei Ohtani is… yeah, he’s really coming up the 5 to the 101 to Stadium Way to perhaps live out the rest of his wondrous career.Babe Ruth is a Dodger.Writing it feels right. Reading it makes sense. Imagining it makes the wait for next spring insanely intolerable.Batting third for the Dodgers, behind Mookie Betts and…

In Los Angeles, the window does not shut.The modern baseball fan has been conditioned to believe that each team has a competitive window, that you can keep the core of a contending team together for only so long before the window inevitably closes.To that, Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers are here to say ho, ho, ho to Dodgers fans and ha, ha, ha to the rest of the league.When might we expect any other team to win the National League West?The Dodgers have won 10 times in the past 11 years. The exception was 2021, when the…

The Shohei Ohtani sweepstakes are over.The Dodgers, as they had long dreamed, held the winning ticket.In a blockbuster announcement Saturday, Ohtani agreed to a 10-year, $700 million contract with the Dodgers, according to a statement posted on Instagram, bringing the two-time most valuable player across town after his historic six-year stint with the Angels.With the Dodgers, the 29-year-old Ohtani will now become an instant face of the franchise, as well as the highest-paid player in MLB history, with his…

We don’t know whether the Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays are the two finalists to sign Shohei Ohtani. We don’t know much about Ohtani’s free agency, by design.But we do know that Ohtani has met with the Dodgers and Blue Jays in recent days, and that was enough to spark what turned into an international debate.On Wednesday, on the Dodgers-owned SportsNet LA channel, analyst and former Dodgers player Jerry Hairston Jr. made his pitch for Ohtani to sign with the Dodgers. On Thursday, on Toronto’s legendary morning show…

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NASHVILLE —  On Tuesday afternoon, clear frustration was present between manager Dave Roberts and the Dodgers’ front office.Roberts’ public (and unplanned) confirmation that the team met with Shohei Ohtani in Los Angeles last week had caught his bosses off guard, including president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman. In the immediate aftermath, there was even uncertainty about how the revelation might impact the Dodgers’ chances of landing the two-way star in free agency, given Ohtani’s apparent preference for…

NASHVILLE —  The Dodgers held a meeting with two-way star Shohei Ohtani at Dodger Stadium last week, manager Dave Roberts revealed Tuesday at Major League Baseball’s winter meetings, marking the biggest on-the-record development in a free-agent pursuit that had previously been shrouded in secrecy and speculation.“Yeah, we met with him,” Roberts said. “I like to be honest, so yeah, we met with Shohei.”According to Roberts, Dodgers officials spent two to three hours with Ohtani, who last month won his second American…

About a month into free agency, a de facto waiting game is underway — for both the Dodgers, and many other clubs around Major League Baseball.In what has been a quiet offseason around the league, the Dodgers have been no exception; yet to orchestrate much of a ripple, let alone any discernible splash.Instead, with the winter meetings approaching next week, the team appears to be waiting for this offseason’s two biggest dominos to fall first, anxious to learn their fate in the sweepstakes for Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu…

DETROIT —  After the Angels announced they would not trade Shohei Ohtani ahead of the MLB deadline, the two-way star took a perfect game into the fifth inning Thursday against the Detroit Tigers. After his bid for perfection was broken up, he went on to throw his first major-league complete game in a 6-0 win at Comerica Park in the first game of a doubleheader Thursday.In the second game, Ohtani hit home runs in the second and fourth innings — giving him a league-leading 38 homers on the season — to help the Angels take…