Yoshinobu Yamamoto Reveals Huge Goal for Second Season With Dodgers
After completing his rookie season in Major League Baseball in the best possible way, Los Angeles Dodgers right-handed pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto is looking to do it all over again in 2025.
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In a one-on-one conversation with MLB.com’s Sonja Chen, Yamamoto was asked his biggest goals for the 2025 season.
“Of course, being a world champion,” Yamamoto said through his interpreter Yoshihiro Sonoda. “We were able to accomplish that last year together as a team and I’d like for us to experience that again this season.”
Yamamoto made history last offseason, becoming the highest-paid pitcher in MLB history when he signed a 12-year, $325 million contract with the Dodgers. Yamamoto had offers from multiple teams — including both the New York Mets and Yankees — but chose to team up with Shohei Ohtani in L.A. just weeks after he signed the then-richest contract in MLB history at 10 years, $700 million.
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Yamamoto infamously got off to a horrible start in the second game of the opening series in Korea, allowing five earned runs in the first inning, his lone inning of his MLB debut. However, he bounced back incredibly after that, and ended up being the ace of the Dodgers’ short-handed rotation in October.
Overall, Yamamoto finished the regular season going 7-2 with a 3.00 ERA and 105 strikeouts across 90 innings pitched.
He made four starts in October, sporting a 3.86 ERA across 18.2 innings pitched.
Yamamoto was on the mound for the Dodgers in the most important game of the season in Game 5 of the National League Division Series against the San Diego Padres.
After giving up five runs in three innings in Game 1 of the series, Yamamoto had the best performance of his MLB career given the stakes, throwing five shutout innings in the team’s 2-0, series-clinching victory.
Yamamoto then threw 6.1 innings of one-run ball in World Series Game 2, allowing just one hit on a solo home run.
Yamamoto will look to play another big role in a loaded rotation for L.A. this season. Between him, Tyler Glasnow, Blake Snell, Roki Sasaki, and the eventual return of Ohtani, the Dodgers could have five aces in their rotation in 2025.
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Wait, so let me get this straight. The “huge” goal is to win the World Series? Do I have that correct? And you are saying he just revealed it? You mean, this was previously a secret??
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