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Dylan Hernández: Weak NL West competition gives Dodgers little motivation to spend on free agents

LOS ANGELES - If an elite free agent is available, the Los Angeles Dodgers won't sign him.

How the Dodgers have managed to lower expectations to this point is truly remarkable, considering they have a television contract worth more than $8 billion.

You would think they might have slipped and accidentally signed someone to a big contract by now, but, no, Mark Walter and his partners at Guggenheim Baseball Management are committed to a philosophy that is bound to disappoint their curiously loyal

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