Now that Shohei Ohtani has agreed to a record-setting contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers, all eyes are on former Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who will likely make his decision next.
Yamamoto will have plenty of options to choose from. Every big market team is reportedly interested in signing the 25-year-old flamethrower, and he will be meeting with some of those teams this week.
But how interested is Yamamoto in those big market teams? The New York Post’s Jon Heyman posted on X, formerly Twitter, that the New York Mets are the current perceived favorites to sign him, with the New York Yankees and Dodgers close behind them.