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Shohei Ohtani Contract Signing Doesn't Make the Dodgers World Series Favorites—Yet

By now, you've surely heard the news that the Los Angeles Dodgers won the Shohei Ohtani sweepstakes. After a weeks-long saga that included, among other things, speculation about the mystery name of his dog, an infamous flight to Toronto that he wasn't on and just a whole lot of guesswork amid the secrecy of the whole process, Ohtani signed with the Dodgers for a flabbergasting $700 million.

Now, what's next for Dodgers?

Landing the two-time AL MVP was massive.

Historic, even.

The Dodgers now have a 1-2-3 punch of Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman and Ohtani that should rank among the greatest in the history of Major League Baseball, right up there with The Big Red Machine's Pete Rose, Johnny Bench and Joe Morgan as well as the New York Yankees' Murderer's Row featuring Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Tony Lazzeri.