The Los Angeles Dodgers are cool operators when it comes to free-agency. While they have no problem making splashes like the then-record-setting deal for Shohei Ohtani, they know that they've established a strong enough infrastructure and built the kind of culture that makes free agents sell themselves to the club, rather than the other way around.
It's a position few other clubs can truly claim. The New York Yankees during their dynastic years had this kind of clout, but it has been a good many years since they could claim this status. Los Angeles, for the most part, has stood alone.