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There is a straight line from Shohei Ohtani’s snubbing of Toronto to the long-term signing of Vladimir Guerrero Jr. a year later.

The most hurtful part of the Toronto Blue Jays’ pursuit of Shohei Ohtani wasn’t that he said, ‘No’. It was that he felt sorry for them after he did it.

“Aside from how the fans may or may not think, I am just very grateful for the teams that approached me and wanted to sign me,” Ohtani said later. He’d just shown up for the first time since you know what happened and hit a home run in his first at bat.

In other words, I needed a hot date to make the L.A. Dodgers jealous enough to give me a US$700-million ring. Thanks for being that special someone.

It’s a straight line from Ohtani’s snubbing of Toronto to the long-term signing of Vladimir Guerrero

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