Flaherty backs Dodgers' spending, calls out other teams for 'doing very little'

Free-agent pitcher Jack Flaherty doesn't think the Los Angeles Dodgers are ruining baseball by outspending everyone to acquire players, believing instead that other teams need to do more to keep up.

Flaherty's tweet comes during an offseason in which the Dodgers have spent $454 million on nine players - not including pitcher Roki Sasaki - to fortify their lineup and defend their World Series championship.

Los Angeles' spending this winter follows a similarly busy 2023 offseason when it acquired Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto for over $1 billion.

The New York Mets are the only team to outspend the Dodgers this offseason, thanks to the $765-million contract they gave Juan Soto.

The New York Yankees, Arizona Diamondbacks, San Francisco Giants, Toronto Blue Jays, and Texas Rangers are the only other clubs to spend more than $100 million on free agents this offseason.

Flaherty won the World Series with the Dodgers last campaign after they acquired him from the Detroit Tigers at the trade deadline.