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Here's Alex Babovich and Cole Kuiper.

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Emergency episode after a week of back and forth, a very crazy week in the world of baseball media.

Shohay Otani has officially made his decision and objectively he made the worst decision possible.

I'm Cole Kuiper here with Laura Britt. We're going to talk, Sh Otani what this means for the Giants and what this means for baseball. Before we get

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All right, Laura, let's jump right into it.

Jorge Otani is officially a Los Angeles Dodger.

Yeah, this is the news everybody's been waiting on, not necessarily where he went, but just where he was deciding to go.

So at winter meetings all week, this was all the talk.

It's waiting for the domino to fall, as Farhan Zaidy put it many times.

Once this domino falls, other things can start to happen, but the reports are that it's a

10-year, $700 million deal.

I was also reading because when I told my husband this news, and I'm sure many

of you are probably asking the same question, how do the Dodgers afford all this? From everything

I've seen and read, it's that it's all deferred, not all of it, but a lot of his contract is deferred,

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