The dust has settled and without a doubt, the most watched free agent MLB player this off-season was now former Los Angeles Angels All-Star, Shohei Ohtani, who signed with the Dodgers on Saturday in deal worth $700 million for 10 years. Rewind prior to the historic signing and the Atlanta Braves were reportedly one of the teams the unanimous American League MVP’s camp had been engaged in talks with about potentially joining the club.
And as reports of meetings between Ohtani and the Braves continued to raise eyebrows as to whether or not Atlanta was truly a destination being considered by the Japanese pitcher and slugger, Braves’ president of baseball operations, Alex Anthopoulos, seemingly shutdown those reports last week during the winter meetings when he told reporters that the organization had only been in pursuit of one position player during the winter and that was Jarred Kelenic, who they traded for last Sunday.
On Monday, during The Steakhouse, Steak Shapiro and Sandra Golden shared their thoughts on the record breaking Ohtani signing and both agreed that they did not believe that Braves needed to pursue the pitcher/slugger with the understanding that he was going to command the type of deal in which he got from the Dodgers. “It just wasn’t ever going to be an offer,” Golden said of the $700M the Dodgers shelled out, believing that Atlanta would not have been interesting in spending that much to acquire Ohtani’s talents. “$700 million is not going to work here,” Shapiro added.
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