Shohei Ohtani formally has made his choice on the place he’ll play in 2024 and past.
The 2-time AL MVP and celebrity free agent agreed to a historic 10-year, $700 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday, ending months of hypothesis over the place the two-way phenom will proceed his MLB profession.
The Giants have been one of many groups closely pursuing Ohtani this offseason and by all indications have been one of many last handful of groups within the operating for his companies.
Nevertheless, the New York Submit’s Jon Heyman joined MLB Community’s “MLB Tonight” after the Ohtani information broke and supplied some perception on the place the Giants may need landed within the Ohtani Sweepstakes.
“I am going to inform you what I do know, however clearly no person’s going to know quite a bit as a result of this was shrouded in secrecy,” Heyman shared. “As of late final evening, my understanding is the Dodgers didn’t know they have been getting him so it was both very late final evening or this morning the place it got here collectively the place the Dodgers grew to become the crew that they perceive they have been getting Shohei Ohtani.
“And my different understanding is that there have been three finalists: the Angels, the Blue Jays and the Dodgers. Actually, the Blue Jays have been clearly within the operating and the Angels have been as nicely. And the Giants and the Cubs I assume you possibly can name them ‘finalists.’ There have been 5 groups.”
As Heyman talked about, the Dodgers, Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Angels — not the Giants — have been the ultimate three groups Ohtani was deciding between earlier than finally selecting to daybreak the Dodger blue.
It stays to be seen when San Francisco and the Chicago Cubs formally have been out of the operating for Ohtani, but it surely seems they didn’t advance to the ultimate rose ceremony.
Given the Giants have completed second for a handful of celebrity gamers over time, leading to heartbreak for a star-hungry fan base, perhaps ending fourth or fifth would possibly sting rather less for followers of the orange and black. Or not. In all probability not, really.
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