The warmth of their Florida and Arizona sojourns, interspersed with cracks of the bat and calls of 'Let's play ball' imbue clubs with confidence and verve. Or that's at least the fantasy that baseball fans and purists wish were true. Crashing World Series ratings and absurd payroll disparities spin a different narrative.
Take the Los Angeles Dodgers, for example. They spent the offseason signing 2023 American League MVP Shohei Ohtani and star Japanese pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto to enormous contracts, among other high-profile free agent acquisitions.
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