The Los Angeles Dodgers’ unreal two-year run in free agency continued Tuesday with yet another All-Star signing. The Dodgers reached an agreement with relief pitcher Kirby Yates on a 1-year deal worth $13 million,

Yates becomes the latest big acquisition in a huge Dodgers offseason. He’s their second marquee pickup in the late innings. Los Angeles signed Tanner Scott to a four-year, $72M pact with deferrals not long before agreeing to terms with Yates.

The best argument against the perception that the Dodgers' front office is up to some sinister sorcery in Los Angeles came from — ironically — a rival executive