While we have signed some high profile FAs, we have not yet won a H2H against the big boys in the past 20 years. If it is us vs LAD or Yankees and the player is their #1 target, we have never won that scenario.
The Dodgers did not really want Ryu and hence we were able to sign him. I almost assure you, if the Dodgers really wanted him, he would have stayed there..