Goodbye to anyone’s hopes of signing Yamamoto after this.
But hey, at least they won’t need to do this in 12 months for Roki Sasaki when he’s paid peanuts anyway. 🤦♂️
Surely that will back onto their payroll at the end of the contract, otherwise the Dodgers have just signed Ohtani to an incredibly team friendly contract. They already have and won’t give a toss about it in a decade.
This just makes any Yamamoto signing the easiest decision for them.
So what does this all mean exactly? Do the Dodgers suddenly have $68 Million on their payroll in 11 years from now and for the next 10 years after that?
Photo of a person at the winter meetings but it’s obvious a different time period because of signage in the background of said photo. Kikuchi and the sushi restaurant. Ohtani on the plane. Shark tank dude actually on the plane. Morosi calling everything wrong. National guys following Morosi’s lead by all calling Ohtani to Blue Jays wrong (see, Ohtani and the plane). Ohtani and the $700 Million deal the very next day. Rosenthal comes out of nowhere to announce the deal hasn’t been done because of no Dodger acknowledgment (hours after Ohtani said he’s a Dodger). Bellinger’s model girlfriend posts from Toronto and Twitterers (X’ers?) already calling BS on it being from today.
This winter can only be summed up one way:
“UPDATE: Per source (ME!), Shohei Ohtani is flying to Chicago this morning and is not expected to leave until a deal is signed and official. It’s happening, folks. Ohtani will be a member of the Chicago #Cubs”
Yep. To be completely serious for a moment, the Cubs would still be involved in this. They would have offered a contract since that is how these things works and now they are one of the four or five teams waiting on Ohtani’s decision.
I doubt they’ve had a change of heart.