Yamamoto is 'beyond ecstatic' to join Dodgers

\n\n”, “providerName”: “Twitter”, “providerUrl”: “https://twitter.com”, “thumbnail_url”: null, “type”: “oembed”, “width”: 550, “contentType “: “rich”},{“__typename”: “Markdown”, “content”: “This contract follows that of his Japanese teammate Shohei Ohtani, who signed for 10 years and US$700 million at the beginning of this month, an agreement that includes deferred funds for… Unprecedented.\n\n“I wouldn't say Ohtani was the only reason I decided to come,” Yamamoto said. “Even if he had decided to sign with another team, I might have ended up in Los Angeles as a Dodger.”\n\nYamamoto, 25, is considered a potential leader of the rotation, despite his physique. At five-foot-10, the right-hander's repertoire includes a 94-99 mph fastball and several secondary pitches to destroy hitters: the famous curveball, split-fingered fastball and cutter/slider.\n\nYamamoto comes to the Majors fresh off a win With the Triple Crown of pitching in Japan, he led the league in wins, ERA and strikeouts. He also won the Eiji Sawamura Award, Japan's version of the Cy Young Award, in each of the past three seasons. In that span, he was 49-16 with a 1.44 earned run average and 580 strikeouts.”,”type”:text”}],”relativeSiteUrl”:”:/news/yamamoto-mas-que-extatico-de – join -the-dodgers”,”contentType”:news”,”subHeadline”:null,summary”:After announcing a 12-year, $325 million contract with right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the Dodgers presented the Japanese All-Star at the conference Reporter at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday.\n”I am thrilled to become a member of this historic franchise and I cannot express how happy I am,”tagline({\”formatString\”:\”none\”})” :null”Tags “:[{“__typename”:”InternalTag”,”slug”:”storytype-article”,”title”:”Article”,”type”:”article”},{“__typename”:”PersonTag”,”slug”:”playerid-808967″,”title”:”Yoshinobu Yamamoto”,”person”:{“__ref”:”Person:808967″},”type”:”player”},{“__typename”:”TeamTag”,”slug”:”teamid-119″,”title”:”Los Angeles Dodgers”,”team”:{“__ref”:”Team:119″},”type”:”team”}]”type”: “story”, “thumbnail”: “https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/upload/{formatInstructions}/mlb/jrubkpwapaymfldf822n”, “title”: “Yamamoto” More Than Ecstatic “To join the Dodgers”}}”Person:808967″:{“__typename”:”Person”,”id”:808967}”,”Team:119″:{“__typename”: “Team”,”id” :119}}} window.adobeAnalytics = {“reportingSuiteId”:mlbglobal08,mlbcom08,mlbcomes”} window.globalState = {“tracking_title”: “Major League Baseball”, “lang”: “es”} window.appId = ' ' /*–>*/