Munetaka Murakami's signing with the White Sox proved that the Dodgers don't have a monopoly on Japanese players coming from NPB. In fact, there's not a great fit in LA for any of the top Japanese free agents — Murakami, Tatsuya Imai, or Kazuma Okamoto — and the team hasn't been mentioned alongside any of them this offseason outside of the general "never count the Dodgers out" warning.
But Dodgers haters still found a way to make the signing — with a team on the opposite end of payroll rankings from LA and who were historically awful just one season ago — about the Dodgers, somehow.