Remember when the Dodgers had the highest payroll but kept losing in October and the narrative was βwell you canβt buy chemistryβ ππππ
Dodgers-Brewers NLCS game times:
Game 1: 5 pm PT
Game 2: 2 pm PT
Game 3: 5 pm PT
Game 4: 6 pm PT
Game 5*: 6 pm PT
Game 6*: 5 pm PT
Game 7*: 5 pm PT
* = if necessary
Hot take: $325M/10 years was indeed way too much to give a pitcher who had never held an MLB-sized baseball.
Unless your owner happens to run a private equity business that leverages a network of undisclosed related-party loans to turn his insurance empire into a personal cash machine for his sports assets.
Dodgers fans think they got Yamamoto because their front office is smarter than everyone else (theyβre not), or because they have more money than everyone else (they donβt).
They got him because their owner was able to take risks no other owner could take, because he was breaking the law.