Phillies and Cincinnati Reds, respectively, in exchange for additional international signing money.

Campbell was a fourth-round draft pick out of the University of Texas in 2023. Campbell hit .251 with a .703 OPS in 115 games with Class-A Great Lakes last year. He was fifth in the league with 42 stolen bases. Lantigua has spent the past two summers playing in the Dominican Summer League, batting .301 with a 1.005 OPS in 49 games last year.

With money less of an issue, the opportunity to play for a perennial contender coming off a World Series title with a sophisticated support system for pitchers and two countrymen already on the roster made the Dodgers the favorites to land Sasaki even before he was posted by his Japanese team, the Chiba Lotte Marines last month.

When Ohtani made the jump to MLB at age 23, he fell into the same international free agency category as Sasaki. The Angels gave Ohtani a $2.3 million signing bonus in December 2017 and paid him roughly the major-league minimum for each of his first three MLB seasons before he became eligible for arbitration.

The Marines will get a release fee calculated at 25% of the amount of Sasaki’s signing bonus.

Considered one of the best pitchers in the world with the potential to dominate MLB hitters at the front of a rotation, Sasaki has touched 102 mph with his fastball and has a devastating splitter to go with it.

In four NPB seasons, Sasaki was 29-15 with a 2.10 ERA and 505 strikeouts in 394 2/3 innings. Last season, he was 10-5 with a 2.35 ERA and missed time with shoulder inflammation which caused his fastball velocity to dip.

When he was posted by Chiba Lotte last month, 20 teams reached out to his agent, Joel Wolfe. That was eventually trimmed to three finalists — the Dodgers, Padres and Blue Jays. The Padres were seen as the Dodgers’ most significant competitor based on Sasaki’s close relationship with Yu Darvish.

Early on Friday, though, it was reported that the Padres were out of the running. The Blue Jays were always considered a long shot but did acquire $2 million in additional international signing bonus money in a trade before Sasaki announced his decision.

During a news conference at the winter meetings last month, Sasaki’s agent, Joel Wolfe, denied an agreement with the Dodgers was already in place. Wolfe said MLB had investigated.

“There was a lot of discussion in the media, in the league, in NPB about Roki’s situation,” Wolfe said. “There were some accusations, allegations, all of them false, made about predetermined deals, things like that. However, MLB rightly wanted to make sure that this was going to be a fair and level playing field for everyone, so they did their due diligence and interviewed numerous parties ahead of time to make sure that that was the case.”

The Dodgers are trying to become the first repeat World Series champion since the New York Yankees won three in a row from 1998 to 2000. Their first spring training workout is on Feb. 11 in Glendale, Arizona, ahead of their opening two-game series against the Chicago Cubs in Tokyo on March 18 and 19.