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New York, Dec 9 (EFE).- Japanese Shohei Ohtani, the most relevant and important star in the Major Leagues at the moment, announced this Saturday his signing for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
“I have decided to choose the Dodgers as my next team,” he wrote on his official Instagram profile.
The stellar two-way player (he works as a pitcher and as a hitter) was a free agent, after leaving his time with the Angels behind, and received numerous offers full of zeros from teams that wanted to incorporate someone who is considered a talent. generational in baseball.
Jeff Passan, one of the journalists with the best sources in the Major Leagues, estimated the Dodgers’ offer at $700 million for 10 years for the ESPN network.
Those monumental figures would place Ohtani with the largest sports contract ever signed in history.
“First, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to everyone involved in the Angels organization and to the fans who have supported me over the past six years,” Ohtani said.
“And to all Dodger fans, I promise that I will always do the best for the team and that I will always continue to give the best version of myself,” said the Japanese, who accompanied his publication with an image with the unmistakable Dodger logo.
Ohtani assured at the end of his message that he will hold a press conference soon to give more details of his decision.
Ohtani’s fate had been the great unknown and a recurring topic of conversation in the MLB in recent months with multiple teams involved in his pursuit, but finally it was the Dodgers who took the 29-year-old Japanese genius to their roster. EFE
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