Blue Blood: How Shohei Ohtani and the $700 Million Dodgers Built Baseball's New Dynasty - Softcover

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On a Friday night in October, a hobbled first baseman who could barely run limped to the plate and hit the first walk-off grand slam in the history of the World Series. A year later, the same franchise became the first team in a quarter century to win back-to-back titles. To understand how the Los Angeles Dodgers built the most feared team in baseball, you have to start with the number that changed the sport: seven hundred million dollars.

In December 2023, the Dodgers signed Shohei Ohtani, the most singular talent the game had ever produced, to the richest contract in the history of North American sports. Almost all of it, six hundred and eighty million dollars, would not be paid until the next decade, a structure so audacious it let one team keep spending while everyone else did the math. It was not a trick. It was the logic of the franchise in a single deal: master the rules, press every freedom to its limit, and let the bill come due later.

This book tells the full story of how a bankrupt, blacked-out team became a machine: from the two-billion-dollar sale that put Guggenheim money behind it, through the decade of October heartbreak that nearly broke Clayton Kershaw, to the pipeline of Japanese stars and the championships that finally arrived. It is also the story of the argument the Dodgers started, whether a team this good is the best thing that ever happened to baseball, or the reason the sport now wants to change its own rules.

Drawing entirely on the public record, court filings and contract structures, championship broadcasts and labor negotiations, it reconstructs the building of a dynasty that money made possible and that money alone could never explain.

Blue Blood is an independent, unauthorized work. It has not been authorized or endorsed by Shohei Ohtani, the Los Angeles Dodgers, or Major League Baseball.

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