Dodgers acknowledge meeting with Ohtani. Yankees covet Yamamoto

"Yeah, we met with him," the Los Angeles Dodgers manager said Tuesday at the winter meetings, making Roberts' club the first to publicly admit a sit-down with the unique two-way player likely to break baseball's salary record. Officials on other teams danced meticulously around the question as if choregraphed by Bob Fosse. Toronto general manager Ross Atkins, who sparked speculation of a possible meeting by holding his Monday media availability on Zoom rather than at the winter meetings hotel, had this to say: "Some meetings that occur, that don't occur, I'm not going to get into the specifics of."