Waiting game: Why the Dodgers' winter plans hinge on Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto
LOS ANGELES — About a month into free agency, a de facto waiting game is underway — for both the Dodgers, and many other clubs around Major League Baseball.
In what has been a quiet offseason around the league, the Dodgers have been no exception; yet to orchestrate much of a ripple, let alone any discernible splash.
Instead, with the winter meetings approaching next week, the team appears to be waiting for this offseason's two biggest dominoes to fall first, anxious to learn their fate in the sweepstakes for Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto before making any other major moves.
"Right now, things are building momentum in a lot of different areas," president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman told reporters Friday, three days before MLB's winter meetings open in Nashville, Tenn., on Monday. "Whether that means a lot of things will get done during these three days in Nashville or not, I'm not sure. But I do feel like a lot of things are starting to
