The Los Angeles Dodgers preemptively reserved a No. 17 jersey for Shohei Ohtani in early December by asking reliever Joe Kelly if he’d quit the uniform for his potential new teammate. Days later, the Dodgers inked the reigning AL MVP to a record-breaking 10-year, $700 million contract.
New York Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone revealed Thursday that the Bronx Bombers might have taken a web page from Los Angeles’ ebook of their pursuit of free-agent Japanese ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto. It appears like New York has taken issues a step additional.
The Yankees met with Yamamoto for the primary time final week in Los Angeles, and received along with the 25-year-old once more earlier this week in Manhattan.
Boone mentioned that the workforce gave him his personal jersey throughout the assembly and there was a particular video message from a sure former World Sequence MVP as effectively.
