Please Let Shohei Ohtani Play for a Team That Doesn’t Suck
Will Leitch, writing for New York Magazine, writes a piece where he pleads for the Baseball Gods to find a better landing place for phenom Shohei Ohtani than where he’s been the last few years, the Angels.
…Ohtani is set to become a free agent the likes of which we’ve never seen. Any team that signs him will essentially get two superstars, the best hitter in the game and one of the best pitchers, for much of the prime of his career. Every big spender will be all-in for him: The Dodgers (probably the current favorite), the Yankees, the Giants, the Mariners (who almost got him when he first came to the majors six years ago), and, of course, Steve Cohen’s Mets, whose owner worked all those years in the coal mines of hedge-fund land precisely to be able to pay a player like Ohtani whatever he wants.
It’s too bad the Cardinals won’t even sniff what his asking price is going to be.