LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nearly all of the thriller round Shohei Ohtani’s unprecedented free company was revealed over the past week, but baseball followers saved sniffing round on a most fuzzy query.
Just who was the pup sitting on Ohtani’s lap when he was voted AL MVP for the second time final month?
Fans speculated the canine’s title might have been a touch at his intentions — What if the pooch was named Dodger? Or Giant? Or Blue Jay?
All a Decoy, seems.
Introduced by the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday after agreeing to a $700 million, 10-year deal, Ohtani revealed that the brown and white canine who joined him on tv final month is called Dekopin or Decopin in Japanese, relying on the transliteration — however he suggests Americans name him Decoy.
“I figured it would be hard for American people to pronounce it, so he has an American name,” Ohtani mentioned by way of translator Ippei Mizuhara.
Ohtani did not communicate to reporters after profitable his MVP award, and the canine’s title by no means surfaced whereas Ohtani stayed silent amid extremely secretive free agent talks. He was requested concerning the canine twice throughout Thursday’s information convention.
By the time Ohtani introduced Saturday that he’d picked the Dodgers, even his new teammates have been desperate to be taught extra about his furry buddy.
“I’d like to think it was named Walker but I guess I’ll find out soon,” pitcher Walker Buehler tweeted.
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