Landing Díaz shows Dodgers unfazed by future

best career campaigns, posting a 1.63 ERA with 28 saves in 31 opportunities and 98 strikeouts in 66¹/₃ innings.

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ADAM HUNGER Associated Press EDWIN DÍAZ agreed to a three-year deal and will help the Dodgers go for a third straight World Series title.

W to two closers? hat kind of team would commit $141 million The one that won last year. The one that won this year. The one that plans to win again next year.

"All I have to say to you," Dodgers owner Mark Walter told fans at the team's World Series championship celebration last month, "is we'll be back next year." The Dodgers handed Tanner Scott $72 million last winter. It hasn't worked out.

So, on Tuesday, the Dodgers handed Edwin Díaz $69 million.

If the Dodgers are going to be Exhibit A for Walter's rival owners to cry about how desperately they need a salary cap, bring it on. If Walter's rival owners demand that players be locked out next winter and not be allowed back until they relent and accept a salary cap, well, bring that on too.

There is a sentence players are taught to utter: "I can't worry about what I can't control." The Díaz signing is basically the Dodgers' ownership saying the same thing: "We can't worry about other owners pointing their fingers at us.

We're here to win. If the rules change, then we'll worry about that." Or maybe not.