Holy shit. Might do more analysis on this at some point, but no way in hell were the Cubs gonna meet this price. A day after Jon Morosi made a huge gaffe by reporting that Shohei Ohtani was en route to Canada, Jeff Passan broke the news that the megastar has signed a 10-year, $700 million deal with the Dodgers.
Passan also noted that the deal includes significant deferrals of most of Ohtani’s salary, which was reportedly his idea, lowering his CBT hit and allowing the Dodgers to keep building around him.