{"id":39116,"date":"2023-12-24T01:04:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T01:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/yamamoto-to-sign-with-dodgers-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2023-12-24T01:04:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T01:04:04","slug":"yamamoto-to-sign-with-dodgers-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/yamamoto-to-sign-with-dodgers-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Yamamoto to sign with Dodgers | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Coveted Japanese right-handed pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto has agreed to a 12-year, $325-million deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Los Angeles Times and other US media outlets reported Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Times cited a person with knowledge of the deal but unauthorized to speak publicly and ESPN also cited unnamed sources in reporting the Dodgers had beat out a bevy of other suitors to land the 25-year-old star.<\/p>\n

Earlier Thursday, New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone revealed he had presented Yamamoto with a No. 18 Yankees jersey as part of the club’s effort to lure him to the Bronx.<\/p>\n

“It’s his if he wants to keep it,” Boone said.<\/p>\n

Yamamoto also reportedly met with the San Francisco Giants, the Philadelphia and the Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n

But Yamamoto will apparently be joining superstar compatriot Shohei Ohtani in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Ohtani, the two-way star who this season won a second American League Most Valuable Player Award by unanimous vote, departed the Los Angeles Angels as a free agent and inked a record-shattering 10-year, $700 million deal — the richest contract in the history of North American sport.<\/p>\n

Yamamoto teamed with Ohtani in Japan’s victorious World Baseball Classic campaign and was named Japan’s Pacific League MVP for the third straight year in November.<\/p>\n

That followed his third straight Sawamura Award as Japan’s top pitcher.<\/p>\n

He won Nippon Professional Baseball’s pitching triple crown — leading the league in wins, earned run average and strikeouts — in each of the past three seasons.<\/p>\n

Overall, he was 49-16 with a 1.44 ERA and 580 strikeouts in that span.<\/p>\n

In what turned out to be his final NPB start, Yamamoto pitched a 14-strikeout complete game on 138 pitches to lead the Orix Buffaloes to victory in game six of the Japan Series.<\/p>\n

The Buffaloes ultimately lost the series to the Hanshin Tigers, and they officially posted Yamamoto on November 20, making him eligible to sign with a Major League Baseball club.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n