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Yamamoto, Glasnow expected to start during Dodgers' Seoul Series

The Los Angeles Dodgers will start their 2024 Major League Baseball season earlier than most teams. Instead of the traditional Opening Day, they will face the San Diego Padres for two games in Seoul, South Korea. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts announced that Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tyler Glasnow will be their starters in those games.

Both pitchers joined the Dodgers this offseason. However, Yamamoto will be making his MLB debut after signing a 12-year, $325 million contract. The Dodgers also paid a $50.625 million posting fee to his previous team, the Orix Buffaloes.

Yamamoto has dominated Nippon Professional Baseball, winning three consecutive Pacific League Most Valuable Player and Eiji Sawamura (equivalent to Cy Young) awards.

The 25-year-old right-handed pitcher is also a three-time Triple Crown and Best Nine awardee. He has five NPB All-Star appearances and a Japan Series winner with the Orix Buffaloes in 2022.

Meanwhile, the Dodgers traded for Glasnow from the Tampa Bay Rays last December. In return, they sent Jonny DeLuca and Ryan Pepiot to the Rays. After the trade, Glasnow signed a five-year, $135 million extension with the Dodgers.

Glasnow had a 10-7 record and a 3.53 earned run average for the Rays last season. He struck out a career-high 162 batters and gave up 93 hits in 120 innings. Before joining the Rays in 2018, Glasnow suited up for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Aside from Yamamoto and Glasnow, Bobby Miller, Walker Buehler, and James Paxton are the other projected starters. Clayton Kershaw agreed to a new deal with the Dodgers but will use the first half of the 2024 season to recover from a shoulder injury.

Finally, 2023 American League Most Valuable Player Shohei Ohtani won’t take the pitching mound this season because of his recovery from an elbow injury that required surgery. Ohtani crossed from the Los Angeles Angels to the Dodgers after agreeing to a whopping ten-year, $700 million contract.

-Lance Fernandez

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