TORONTO -- While most of baseball is saying hats off to Shohei Ohtani , Toronto manager John Schneider wants a cap back from the two-way star.

Before signing a $700 million, 10-year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers , Ohtani met with Blue Jays officials on Dec. 4, 2023, at the team's spring training complex in Dunedin, Florida.

Ohtani will be the opening batter of the World Series, hitting leadoff for the defending champion Dodgers against the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre on Friday night after his unprecedented performance at the plate and on the mound in the NL Championship Series.

"I hope he brought his hat, the Blue Jay hat that he took from us in our meeting. I hope he brought it back, finally," Schneider said Thursday.

"And the jacket for Decoy," he added, a reference to Oht

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