The Yankees love the nice Shohei Ohtani (who doesn’t?) and tried to accumulate him once more on the commerce deadline, however a number of baseball folks have expressed doubts about whether or not he’d wish to come to New York as a free agent.
That doesn’t imply the Yankees received’t strive for Ohtani a 12 months from now, and other people near Ohtani preserve it’s fallacious that he's anti-New York. They contend he has by no means expressed these sentiments, and moreover that he’d be open-minded if he turns into a free agent. They add that he’s absolutely dedicated to the Angels for now, as his unbelievable efficiency exhibits.
In fact, if groups that didn’t make the Ohtani Derby last spherical six years in the past shaped an impression about Ohtani’s preferences — the Yankees didn't make it — so much could have modified. Ohtani now has approach a couple of assembly to go on. Regardless, the six different finalists have been the Dodgers, Cubs, Giants, Mariners, Padres and Rangers, and two baseball executives advised they may see the Giants touchdown Ohtani ought to he depart the Angels. In fact, supposition doesn’t bat 1.000 in baseball.
Ohtani has by no means mentioned something publicly about locale preferences. Some membership execs believed he most well-liked a considerably smaller market six years in the past, maybe on the West Coast. In any case, the Yankees have been nonetheless among the many most groups in aborted trade-deadline talks, earlier than Angels proprietor Arte Moreno determined he couldn’t commerce Ohtani, who has put collectively a second straight all-world season that might finish in a second straight MVP in most different years.
It hasn’t been about cash for Ohtani (he got here to the U.S. earlier than he may very well be paid market worth), and he has indicated successful is essential, together with with the ability to assist his workforce any approach he can. So that might play within the Yankees’ favor. Yet another distinction as a free agent after 2023, versus final time: As a real free agent this time, the financial gives may very well be wildly totally different.
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