By Bill Shaikin
Staff WriterFollow
Jan. 23, 2025 6 AM PT
We called them “the new owners” back then. In its fourth month as the Dodgers’ new owners, Guggenheim Baseball agreed to assume a quarter-billion dollars worth of contracts — over six seasons — to land Adrián González.
Half that money would go to González. The other half, well, that was the value of the three other player contracts the Dodgers absorbed to induce the Boston Red Sox to trade him.
The Dodgers had started that 2012 season in bankruptcy court, and all of a sudden the baseball world nervously wondered whether the new owners had a spending limit, or at least what that spending limit might be.