Mike Lupica: Other Than Money, Mets And Yankees Have Little To Offer Shohei Ohtani

Tribune News Service, Denver Post: Sports
Thu, 08/10/2023 - 3:36pm

All along there’s been a big, big-city fever dream in the back of everybody’s minds that Shohei Ohtani ends up in New York, for all the talk that he’ll end up staying on the west coast once he become a free agent. Somehow the best baseball player in the world would come here the way Babe Ruth did over 100 years ago, and be that kind of star in a star town. But even if that were a real possibility, no matter how much of a longshot it is, ask yourself something: What exactly about the current state of the Mets and Yankees would make Ohtani even think about coming here? Because what we have found out this season, both sides of town, over $600 million spent on two teams whose combined record coming out of Wednesday night’s games was a combined seven games under .500, is that it takes more than money to win.

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