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It's less how much they spent on him, but the chain of events that have come from signing him.
>glass canon who needs surgery joins org that already destroys arms and makes them require surgery earlier in their career
>gets injured quickly
>have to rush Ohtani's recovery and return to pitching since they're running out of guys
>because he's not actually ready to go for actual full starts since he's still technically recovering and they don't want to lose out on their "best hitter" by sending him to OKC for rehab stints, they have to do more bullpen games
>bullpen is taxed more
>everyone on their bullpen is being used too much and are starting to get injured more and more
>all of a sudden they have a rotation of mostly AAA guys with the exception of grandpa kershaw and yams. both of which are starting to show their holes too