Blue Jays, Shohei Ohtani and John Schneider
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Toronto manager John Schneider joked that Shohei Ohtani should give back the Blue Jays hat he got from the December 2023 meeting that preceded the two-way star signing his $700 million contract with the Dodgers.
For John Schneider, facing Shohei Ohtani is an entirely different proposition, a sentiment he conveyed when comparing the challenge to playing against Cal Raleigh and Aaron Judge to reach the World Series.
The World Series provided fodder to look back at the whirlwind final week of Shohei Ohtani’s free agency tour in December 2023.
John Schneider reminisces about when Toronto came close to signing Shohei Ohtani, and Ohtani jokes that he still has a Blue Jays hat in his garage