Dodgers get Yamamoto for $325 million

Los Angeles — Coveted Japanese right-handed pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto has agreed to a 12-year, $325-million deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Los Angeles Times and other US media outlets reported Thursday.

The Times cited a person with knowledge of the deal but unauthorized to speak publicly and ESPN also cited unnamed sources in reporting the Dodgers had beat out a bevy of other suitors to land the 25-year-old star. Earlier Thursday, New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone revealed he had presented Yamamoto with a No. 18 Yankees jersey as part of the club’s effort to lure him to the Bronx.

“It’s his if he wants to keep it,” Boone said.

Yamamoto also reportedly met with the San Francisco Giants, the Philadelphia and the Boston Red Sox.