Word out of the Winter Meetings Tuesday was that the Cubs were pivoting from Shohei Ohtani and possibly even Yoshinobu Yamamoto after balking at their respective price tags. As dubious as that sounds on the surface since everyone knew how much Ohtani was going to cost, we don’t have context for what additional details might have gone into his desired contract. As for Yamamoto, the latest report is that he could end up close to $300 million, a huge increase over initial projections.
Jed Hoyer was largely mum on the subject when speaking to reporters in Nashville, saying only that they’d received no updates from Ohtani’s camp.