The Dodgers thought Ewdin Diaz was going to stay in New York

Charles-Alexis Brisebois
The Dodgers thought Ewdin Diaz was going to stay in New York
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The Dodgers have had a superb offseason. They managed to improve their already incredible team (yes, it's apparently possible) by signing Edwin Diaz and Kyle Tucker, two of the best players in the world.

This has clearly upset a lot of people, but hey, they don't care.

The thing to know is that the Dodgers have their selling point : offering a shorter contract, but with a significantly higher average salary. They're banking on the fact that they're the Dodgers to get what they want.

It doesn't always work. But this winter, they clearly managed to target players who bought what they were selling.

Andrew Friedman, the club's president of baseball operations, said he didn't think Diaz would leave New York. And when he realized he had a chance, he offered him $69 million over three years.

That's a record annual salary for a relief pitcher, but also a shorter deal than the five seasons he was seeking.

On the Dodgers Territory podcast, he also said that he didn't really believe the Dodgers had a real chance at Tucker until the end. At some point, he felt that Tucker wanted to play in L.A.

And a few days later, he managed to sign him for $60 million a year, but only for four years.

I don't know if the president said that to calm down people who think the Dodgers are a steamroller, to fit with what he had been saying in recent months that his club was going to “monitor the market,” or if it's just the truth.

But it doesn't matter: right now, everything is going well for his organization.

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