Yankees’ Brian Cashman drops eye-opening Shohei Ohtani contract admission

The New York Yankees have never been shy to chase the big stars. Whenever a big name head into free agency or requests a trade, New York is always involved somehow. The same thing happened during the year of Shohei Ohtani. When the two-way star hit the free agent market this offseason, he was first heavily linked to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

However, there were still reports that the Yankees were in the mix for Ohtani’s services. Ohtani ended up moving to the other side of LA with the Dodgers. The signing had quite the peculiar structure, with multiple deferrals of pay. A few months after this blockbuster, Brian Cashman revealed on a podcast that this type of structure was never offered to the Yankees, per Talkin’ Yanks.

“That’s like a once-in-a-lifetime situation,” Cashman said. “I can’t imagine how you propose a contract like that with all those deferrals, but it made sense when he said it came from Ohtani. So, no, there was nothing presented to me like that. Never, ever in my history.”