JAPANESE STAR PITCHER YOSHINOBU YAMAMOTO JOINING DODGERS ON RECORD DEAL

Yoshinobu Yamamoto is teaming up with Shohei Ohtani. The Japanese star pitcher has reached a 12-year, $325 million deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers. The massive contract contains a $50 million signing bonus and no deferred money. It's the largest deal in terms of total money for a pitcher in MLB history, topping the nine-year, $324 million contract Gerrit Cole signed with the New York Yankees ahead of the 2020 season. The Dodgers have now committed more than $1 billion in contracts to land the top two players in free agency. They lured Ohtani away from the Los Angeles Angeles with a record-smashing 10-year, $700 million contract(with $680 million in deferred money). Less than two weeks later, they've made another big-time financial commitment to bring in Yamamoto.

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