The Yankees and Dodgers each talked about buying and selling for Shohei Ohtani in the summertime of 2022, when the Angels had been briefly contemplating dealing him, earlier than proprietor Arte Moreno pulled the plug on talks.
The Yankees had been thought of then to have a good group of younger gamers — led by Anthony Volpe and Austin Wells, and in addition together with Jose Peraza, Oswaldo Cabrera, Trey Sweeney, Luis Gil and Hunter Wesneski — and the Dodgers all the time have prospects — their group included Miguel Vargas, Bobby Miller, Dalton Dashing, Dustin Could and Gavin Lux again then.
The Yankees had been apparently keen to contemplate a commerce for Ohtani even after listening to from him on his tour that he couldn’t see himself in New York, but it surely absolutely dampened their resolve, even earlier than the Angels killed the entire thing.
In the end although, the Padres doubtless had been in the perfect place to get Ohtani in commerce with all of the younger guys they as an alternative traded for Juan Soto to supply (James Wooden, Mackenzie Gore, C.J. Abrams, and so on.) plus that they had Jackson Merrill. Phrase is, the Padres would have been keen to supply much more for Ohtani than Soto. Robust to beat that group — particularly with the ultra-aggressive GM A.J. Preller, Huntington Station’s personal, working it.
Teoscar Hernandez informed me he’d like to return to the Dodgers. “One thousand %,” Hernandez stated.
Key Dodgers lefty reliever Alex Vesia (indirect) says he’s “90 %” to be lively for the World Collection after lacking the NLCS.
Baseball followers constructed a tribute to the late nice Fernando Valenzuela with a makeshift memorial outdoors Gate A at Dodger Stadium. For those who weren’t round for Fernandomania in 1981, you needed to be there. It dwarfed even Ohtani mania.
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