#2,057 - Did Shohei Ohtani Spurn San Francisco Giants’ $700M Offer Because City Is a Dumpster Fire?

As we reported Saturday, baseball sensation Shohei Ohtani signed a $700 million mega-deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers. The guaranteed contract is the richest ever signed in any U.S. professional sport.

But the two-way player received an almost identical offer from another Major League team: the San Francisco Giants, yet he turned it down. The eight-time winners of the World Series pulled out all the stops to try to get Ohtani, virtually begging him to come, but to no avail. 

The question is, why? 

Buster Posey, the onetime franchise Giants catcher and current member of its ownership group, admitted that the city's disastrous decline likely played a factor in Ohtani's thinking.

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