Any glimmer of hope that the Tampa Bay Rays had in signing top international player Shohei Otani was stomped out Sunday. Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times via Twitter reported that the Rays were one of the teams Otani left out of his potential landing spots.
Otani cut his list of preferred teams to seven this weekend according to MLB.com. The seven teams Otani has listed are the Rangers, Mariners, Padres, Cubs, Angels, Dodgers, and Giants as teams that are still in the running.
The common factor in six of those seven teams is that they are on the west coast.