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The San Diego Union-Tribune
The San Diego Union-Tribune
SAN DIEGO — Sorry, Toronto (and San Diegans). Shohei Ohtani and the Blue Jays never made sense. Spending $700 million doesn’t make much sense, either. But if someone was going to break the bank, it was going to be the team biding its time for years in hopes of landing this generation’s greatest free agent. The Blue Jays over Dodger Blue? The Great White North over Hollywood? Clawing in the AL East over reigning in the NL West? Yeah, Ohtani was never getting on that plane to Toronto on Friday, as much as San Diegans would have loved that outcome. A.J. Preller had already punted Juan Soto and hi…