December 9, 2023
The modern-day Babe Ruth will continue playing in Los Angeles. Shohei Ohtani, the two-time winner of the American League MVP, will sign with the Los Angeles Dodgers in free agency after spending the first six years of his career with the Los Angeles Angels, Ohtani announced in an Instagram post. Los Angeles Angels’ Shohei Ohtani
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NASHVILLE — Everyone who gathered at the Gaylord Opryland for Major League Baseball’s winter meetings this week asked the same question over and over again: Which team is going to sign Shohei Ohtani? For one franchise, Ohtani’s decision will define the offseason. For other prominent free agents, it will finally move their markets forward. For Taro
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Shohei Ohtani plans to decide where to sign “within the week,” MLB Network reported on Monday, as the Winter Meetings began in Nashville, Tennessee. The free agent two-way star is projected to receive a record-setting contract worth more than $500 million with only a handful of teams still considered serious options, per multiple reports. MLB
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Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo, a sports radio legend and ESPN personality, took some heat over a comment he made when talking about Shohei Ohtani’s free agency. Ohtani has not chosen a team yet and reportedly has preferred to keep his meetings with baseball executives private as he goes through the process. The procedure has ruffled
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NASHVILLE — The Angels made little noise in terms of player acquisitions over three days at the winter meetings. They said nothing substantive about where they stood with Shohei Ohtani. They left Tennessee with the promise of further deals to come. “As we sit here today, I feel like there’s ways to improve that are closer
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NASHVILLE — On Tuesday afternoon, clear frustration was present between manager Dave Roberts and the Dodgers’ front office. Roberts’ public (and unplanned) confirmation that the team met with Shohei Ohtani in Los Angeles last week had caught his bosses off guard, including president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman. In the immediate aftermath, there was even uncertainty
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Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts confirmed that the team met with Shohei Ohtani “a couple days ago,” but that comment alone may have an impact on landing the highly sought after free agent superstar. Ohtani owns MLB free agency talk, especially at the league’s Winter Meetings in Nashville this week. But the courting of
READ MOREBaseball is waiting for Shohei. Big-name free agents appear in no hurry to strike deals at the winter meetings, biding time until Shohei Ohtani potentially breaks the record for richest contract set 4 1/2 years ago by Mike Trout. And Japanese free agent Yoshinobu Yamamoto could be holding up the starting pitching market. “It’s probably
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The bidding for coveted free agent Shohei Ohtani is down to four teams, with the winner expected to pay more than $500 million for the services of the two-time American League Most Valuable Player, ESPN reported Friday. The Chicago Cubs, Toronto Blue Jays and the two Los Angeles teams — the Dodgers and Angels —
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Shohei Ohtani’s first pro manager, Hideki Kuriyama, on Friday celebrated the two-way superstar’s second unanimous MVP award in Major League Baseball and said he expects even more from him. “To receive that award twice in a unanimous vote is, I think, proof that everyone recognizes what he’s done,” the former Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters skipper
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