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Shohei Ohtani Has Reportedly Narrowed List to Five Teams

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He’s makin’ a list, he’s checkin’ it twice, gonna find out whose city is nice. Shohei Claus is comin’ to town.

The first thing we need to establish before going forward is that you need to take translated info with a grain of salt, particularly when you’re relying on your web browser to perform said translation. That’s particularly important when we’re talking about the Japanese language, the characters of which don’t have direct equivalents in the English alphabet. As we’ve noted before, that’s why there’s been some confusion as to exactly how Shohei Ohtani’s name should be spelled.