Imagine having an extra $3.557 million sitting around just waiting to be spent. And you have to use it by June 15 or lose it.
Well, that’s the position the Mariners find themselves in now after Shohei Ohtani left them at the baseball altar and ran off with the Los Angeles Angels instead.
Much has been written and discussed about the Mariners’ and general manager Jerry Dipoto’s publicized pursuit of the hitting and pitching phenom from Japan.
As part of the quest to get Ohtani, Dipoto made three trades to accumulate $2.5 million in international bonus pool money to go with their $1.