While we wait for the Dodgers' contract with Kenta Maeda to be finalized and, perhaps more importantly, the specific details known, the information we do have now in many ways bring more questions than answers.
Christopher Meola has been ahead of the game in the reporting of Maeda to the Dodgers, first in reporting the agreement — later confirmed by Jon Heyman of CBS Sports, Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports, Jon Morosi of Fox Sports, and Joel Sherman of the New York Post; with Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times saying a deal was "close" — and first to report any kind of contract details, later essentially confirmed by Sherman.