When Ohtani snubbed Toronto, it reminded everyone where the Jays stand in baseball’s pecking order – closer to the bottom than the top
Los Angeles Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani is interviewed after a 10-8 win over the Chicago Cubs in Los Angeles, on Sept. 11.On Wednesday night, Los Angeles Dodger Shohei Ohtani hit his 47th home run of the year and stole his 48th base. He’s got three weeks to get to 50/50. Once there, he will be the only player to have done it.
Now that the season is wrapping up, it’s a good time to revisit what the Jays lost when they got snookered by Ohtani’s people. Instead of giving Ohtani US$70-million a year, they laid out US$29-million to acquire or reacquire Isiah Kiner-Falefa, Kevin Kiermaier and 39-year-old Justin Turner. If they’d acquired him, they’d be a theoretical six games to the better, which means they wouldn’t have given up midsummer, which means people wouldn’t have tuned out the baseball team for the last three or four months of the season.
Though the Jays aren’t in any better a spot than those two teams, performance-wise, market-wise or ownership-wise, Toronto was a dark horse. You could believe it was capable of a few tricks. Around the turn of the century, the Dodgers missed the playoffs seven years in a row. Despite the fact that they play in the prettiest park in the majors, their attendance cratered.
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