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Both New York baseball clubs are still making a push for Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
The Japanese ace, who is this offseason’s top remaining free agent, met with both the Yankees and the Mets this past weekend, according to The New York Post. He met with a group of Mets officials at owner Steve Cohen’s home in Connecticut on Saturday and then met with Yankees officials on Sunday.
Both teams had met with Yamamoto previously — Cohen and Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns flew to Japan to meet him, and Yankees officials met with him in Southern California last week — though his latest meeting with the Yankees brass was reportedly at Yamamoto’s request. Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner, general manager Brian Cashman, president Randy Levine, manager Aaron Boone and pitching coach Matt Blake all reportedly met with Yamamoto the first time.
It’s not just the Mets and Yankees who have met with Yamamoto recently, either. Yamamoto reportedly met with the San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Red Sox within the past week or so, per The New York Post. The Chicago Cubs have also been in the mix.
Yamamoto, 25, won his third straight Sawamura award, the Japanese equivalent of the Cy Young Award, last season with the Orix Buffaloes. He went 16-6 with a 1.21 ERA in 23 appearances last season while striking out 169 batters and walking just 28.
“He’s a gunslinger,” a major league official told The New York Post. “He reminds me of David Cone. He just gets the ball and doesn’t give a damn and keeps firing until there’s no bullets left.”
It’s unclear when Yamamoto will make his decision or which way he’s leaning. He will be just the latest high-profile free agent to make a move this offseason, following Shohei Ohtani’s move to the Dodgers earlier this month. Yamamoto’s deal is expected to be worth at least $200 million, if not more. He has until Jan. 4 to officially sign with a team.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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