News Article: Shohei Ohtani signs in Canada

[Runner77]

Turns out the flight that Jay fans and Morosi were tracking …

 

[HuGo Sham]

oops.

dislike the jays - who voted for 'Spos to contract.
Glad he's not in the east as the yanks are my placeholder till Montreal
(if ever) returns.
would've been cool to have him in canada though

 

[Runner77]

 

[the valiant effort]

No Soto nor Ohtani, as expected

Welcome home, $300 million dollar man Cody Bellinger!

 

[Naslundforever]

Dodgers?

 

[sampollock]

Jay's could not compete with the la

 

[Redux91]

So much for that lol
(I'm a dodgers fan too )

But that is , no joke, the most astounding contract ive ever seen in my life wow

Highest paid player last year made 43.3M
Ohtani is now at 70M lol

 

[Michoulicious]

lol Toronto

 

[Runner77]

Such high journalistic standards — a story that stemmed from a Reddit joke.



Clearly Morosi was desperate to be first and failed to do basic due diligence.

Even better is CBC who appears to not have independently verified the accuracy of the rumours and chose instead to send a crew to Pearson to photograph Herjavec’s landing.

 

[sampollock]

So much for that lol
(I'm a dodgers fan too )

But that is , no joke, the most astounding contract ive ever seen in my life wow

Highest paid player last year made 43.3M
Ohtani is now at 70M lol

And he can't pitch next year

 

[Michoulicious]

I want ALL the Ohtani to Toronto memes forever.

This is so embarassing in so many ways for so many people. The plane tracking, the live streams, omg.

Hilarious.

 

[Runner77]

And he can't pitch next year

Neither can Herjavec.

 

[LV426]

Ohtani's new duds.

 

[JianYang]

This got me thinking, what was the biggest splash free agent ever signed by a Canadian team in MLB?

The first name that comes to my head is Roger Clemens but I don't follow the sport closely.

 

[Adam Michaels]

 

[DAChampion]

Shouldn't this be in other sports thread?

 

[MarkJ]

this should be in Toronto's thr...ohh forget that.

 

[Natey]

Told ya.

 

[Habano]

Soooo happy Tarana didn't get him!

 

[Pompeius Magnus]

The Dodgers have to hope his arm will be 100% in 2025, because if he can't be an elite pitcher anymore, his on field value takes a pretty big drop. He does bring a ton of money in advertising and visibility with him on top of everything else though, so there's that obviously.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Shouldn't this be in other sports thread?

Keep this thread the way it is. And monitor every flight from LA to Toronto.

 

[the valiant effort]

This got me thinking, what was the biggest splash free agent ever signed by a Canadian team in MLB?

The first name that comes to my head is Roger Clemens but I don't follow the sport closely.

In terms of money, I think it’s George Springer lol

 

[Runner77]

 

[StCaufield]

As a jays fan I’m bummed. As a Habs fan I’m happy that leaf fans are devastated

 

[Pompeius Magnus]

Good luck pitching around a Betts-Ohtani-Freeman heart of the order.