baseball MVP & CY YOUNG: who do you like?

ROY AL
1. Gunnar Henderson
2. Masataka Yoshida
3. Josh Jung

ROY NL
1. Corbin Carroll
2. Matt McLain
3. Kodai Senga

The Dodgers don’t just have two nickels to rub together. They have a treasure chest filled to the rusty hinges with gold doubloons. They showed us that when they signed superstar Shohei Ohtani for 10 years and $700 million almost two weeks ago.

So while I watched Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, squeezing an amazing 103 wins out of marginal players he’d signed on the cheap for the A's, the Dodgers reached into their treasure chest for doubloons that weren’t bound for Ohtani and rubbed ’em together like Aladdin’s lamp. And what should appear in a Dodger uniform but young Japanese superstar pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who according to news reports has signed a 12-year deal worth $325 million. (MLB.com is among the sites reporting the deal based on a source and says "The team has not confirmed the deal, which is pending a physical.")

If Ohtani was the most sought after free agent in baseball this offseason, Yamamoto was Number 2. He’s 25 years old. He’s been pitching for the Orix Buffaloes since he was 18. For the last three seasons, he’s been the best pitcher in Japan.