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The Dodgers freshened up their bullpen Tuesday, calling up 24-year-old right-hander Nick Robertson for the first time in his career. One option Roberts eliminated was using a six-man rotation, especially with the team having at least one off day for the next three weeks.

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“Once we get through this series and Julio comes back, we’ll try to figure out what we do,” Roberts said. The club also has a pair of rookies currently starting games in Bobby Miller and Michael Grove. Noah Syndergaard seems like the likeliest candidate, given his season-long struggles and 6.54 ERA. Who Urías will replace in the Dodgers current rotation is unclear. “We feel confident he’ll make his start on Sunday,” manager Dave Roberts said. It would mark his first start in almost a month after going on the injured list with a left hamstring strain. But, out of ignorance or charity, he signed for far less than he is worth.CINCINNATI - Julio Urías’ return date from a hamstring strain is set.Īfter throwing two innings of live batting practice to hitters Tuesday afternoon, then two more innings in the bullpen, Urías is on track to start the Dodgers game Sunday in Philadelphia against the Phillies. He is going to a loaded team and has greatly improved his chances of playing in the World Series. Ohtani? He will make plenty of money from this contract and his many endorsement deals.

The Dodgers get the greatest star in baseball and will reap enormous revenue from having Ohtani on their team, and they got him at a bargain price while seeming to have paid a king’s ransom. The true cost is $94 million if they can earn a 15% return, $54 million if they can earn a 20% return. The Dodgers can, most likely, earn an even higher rate of return on the money they are not paying Ohtani - so the cost to them is even less than $173 million. stocks), that $700 million is really worth $173 million in today’s dollars. How much? If Ohtani or the Dodgers can earn a 10% return (the long-run average return on U.S. This deferred $700 million is not $700 million: Ohtani left hundreds of millions of dollars on the table and the Dodgers saved hundreds of millions of dollars. A dollar paid or received five-, 10-, or 20 years from now is not the same as a dollar today because a dollar today can be invested to grow to more than a dollar in five, 10-, or 20 years. No one is talking about the time value of money. AL WEST STANDINGS Texas, 72-48 Houston, 69-52, 3. making more in the next 20 years than anyone else ever has on a player salary in sports.” Dodgers get strong pitching from Bobby Miller and Ryan Yarbrough and defeat the Milwaukee Brewers, 6-2. What about that deferral? CBS sportswriter Matt Snyder, wrote that, “He’s still getting 700 million freaking dollars…. Ohtani gets the biggest contract in sports history and demonstrates to his fans that he is willing to do whatever it takes to improve his new team.

The Dodgers get the greatest star in baseball and demonstrate to their fans that they will do whatever it takes to improve the team. Everything he does is unique and impeccably well thought out….There is no player like him and so it is fitting there is no contract like this one.”

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The deferral plan gives the Dodgers an extra $24 million to spend each year on free agents such as pitchers Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Josh Hader.īalelo gushed: “Nobody should be surprised. Los Angeles Dodgers beat Tampa Bay Rays (8-3). In an interview with Sports Illustrated sportswriter Tom Verducci, Ohtani’s agent Nez Balelo said that the deferral was Ohtani’s idea: He had asked Balelo, “What if I defer all my salary so that my team has a better chance to compete?” Balelo and the Dodgers obliged. The next day, the contract details were revealed - $2 million a year for the 10 years that Ohtani is scheduled to play for the Dodgers, followed by $68 million a year for the next 10 years. When the news broke that Ohtani would sign with the Los Angeles Dodgers, baseball and sports fans couldn’t believe it: $700 million for 10 years, which is about $250 million more than any other U.S. Analysts were estimating that Ohtani’s contract would be the biggest contract in sports history - somewhere north of $500 million. The free agency process was intentionally kept extremely secret, with news outlets scrambling to find leaks of tidbits of gossip.