Shohei Otani runs from the Dodgers: the Yankees can take him before August

The sensation of baseball today and probably in the current decade is the Japanese. shohei otani. Since the days of the legendary Babe Ruth, there has been no memory of a player with such an effective ability to double down on his duties by throwing and striking.

But the reality of the 29-year-old is not the same as that of his LA Angels franchise. In the institutional angelenos faced an imbalance and even the owner of the team, Arte Moreno, calculated several options for selling the establishment It has been owned by him since 2003.

Added to this, Otani to become a free agent after this seasonso if you want to cash out the most complete baseball player in MLB today, now is the time.

Several teams were interested in their services and the one with the most weight is the Dodgers. The position of the eleventh from Los Angeles is advantageous in negotiations for Otani: he offers to stay in a sunny city in the western United States for Salary increase of the order of 65 and 70 million dollars per season.making him the highest paid in MLB (nominally, not counting marketing).

It’s an old desire for the Dodgers, who weren’t as quick as the Angels in 2018, to take Ohtani out of his native Japan and back to the US. However, they could once again be without Major League Baseball’s most coveted player.

According to John Heyman, an MLB Network analyst, Arte Moreno is “unwilling” to negotiate his figure with the California team, so the Dodgers will do everything on the loose, with other state teams like the San Diego Padres and San Francisco Giants in the competition.

Yankees, Dodgers great rival, Shohei Otani

Until the August 1 deadline, the Angels could continue to listen to trade offers for the Japanese star, and in addition to the Dodgers or Padres, the history of a major league accustomed to having great players spoke in Arta Moreno’s ear: New York Yankees.

In the Big Apple they are convinced that they can count on Shohei Otani in the same campaign and not in the winter on the loose.

specialized portals such as ESPN showed in recent days that in the Yankees’ cabinets are confident of reaching a deal with Arte Moreno and other Angels directors.

There are even those who already represent Otani in the locker room with another unstoppable baseball player like Aaron Judge. Retired baseball Hall of Famer John Smoltz recently assured that with both, the Yankees are guaranteed not only to make the playoffs, but win the World Series.

“He’s worth getting even if they don’t re-sign him to the World Series (…) That makes New York a clear favorite to win the World Series. That’s a big difference this guy makes,” Smoltz said on MLB Network’s The Cartoon Show podcast.

“The way he plays… It would be hard not to think that what he would do as a New York Yankee in this stadium would be amazing,” the Hall of Fame added.