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The Giants offered Shohei Ohtani the same contract that he signed with the Dodgers

Shohei Ohtani has dominated the baseball airwaves since the start of the offseason. For weeks we wondered where he would sign, and what the process would look like. Then we were treated to a flurry of (mostly false) reporting as things heated up. The mystery and speculation was the biggest story in baseball.

When Ohtani chose the Los Angeles Dodgers, breaking the hearts of San Francisco Giants fans in the process, his decision became the biggest story in baseball.

And then reports of his newly-minted contract — the largest in sports history — became public.