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So far, in the 2024 Major League Baseball offseason, the Los Angeles Dodgers have blown the rest of the league out of the water with their egregious spending.
With the recent offseason acquisitions of right-handed pitcher/designated hitter Shohei Ohtani and right-handed pitcher Yamamoto Yoshinobu, to the already dodger blue utility Mookie Betts and first-baseman Freddie Freeman, fans and teams around the league see the Dodgers “buying” a superteam.
However, what the rest of the league fails to understand is every MLB team can do what the Dodgers are doing this offseason — your team owners choose not to.