Scott Boras Praises Dodgers Ownership For Spending Money, Calls Out Other Teams

Many fans across Major League Baseball heading into 2024 have labeled the Los Angeles Dodgers as the sport's villain, thanks to an impressive offseason. 

The Dodgers committed $700 million to Shohei Ohtani, $325 million to Yoshinobu Yamamoto, $136.5 million to Tyler Glasnow, $23.5 million to Teoscar Hernandez, and re-signed Clayton Kershaw despite the 35-year-old missing most of the 2024 season. Doing the math, that's an outlay of effectively $1.2 billion in guaranteed contracts. By contrast, the Oakland A's have quite literally $0 in guaranteed contracts for 2025 and beyond. That's not a misprint, it's literally zero.

It's hard to blame fans for being frustrated that the Dodgers are wielding their financial might. But they're receiving praise from one mildly surprising corner of the baseball world; agent Scott Boras.

Boras has had a contentious relationship with the Dodgers after he criticized their handling of Cody Bellinger's injury several years ago. 

READ: Scott Boras Accuses Dodgers Of Mishandling Cody Bellinger's Injury

But in a recent interview, he praised the ownership group and franchise for building a consistent, winning organization. And wielding their financial "flexibility" to do so.

"There always comes a litmus test for a franchise and it usually comes after the first world championship," said Boras to the Dallas Morning News. "If you sustain that championship level, you build the kind of legacy that few do. The Dodgers and Astros, for example, have always made the kind of move that is most difficult – the last one to a championship level for that season and beyond. It’s the kind of move that requires some [financial] flexibility in the moment; however it’s the kind of move that separates them from