On the one hand, it’s not hard to blame Shohei Ohtani for not picking the Toronto Blue Jays a little under two years ago.

On the other hand, it is absolutely wild that the Jays and Ohtani’s Dodgers will meet up in the World Series starting Friday at the Rogers Centre.

For some, it looked like the two-way superstar skipping out on a contract with the Blue Jays in December 2023 could’ve been a death blow for the Toronto franchise that hadn’t had the type of postseason success it had imagined for years.

But one year after the Dodgers won their second World Series and the Blue Jays won just 74 games, the two teams meet with the biggest prize in baseball on the line.

Ohtani picked up the National League Championship Series MVP award after hitting three home runs and pitching six shutout

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