If it wasn’t the sun and sandy beaches of Southern California that motivated baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani to spurn the San Francisco Giants and sign a mega-free agent deal with the arch-rival Los Angeles Dodgers, was it something about the City by the Bay?
Beloved former Giants catcher Buster Posey, the centerpiece of San Francisco’s three World Series championship teams from 2010–14 and now a member of the club’s ownership group, suggested that might have been the case.