The Los Angeles Angels have a very hard job to do. Getting Shohei Ohtani to decide to stay in Anaheim. They did it once before, but Arte Moreno and Perry Minasian will have to work hard to keep him around after six straight losing seasons with no signs that the losing streak will end soon.
One thing that was meant to make the Shohei Ohtani sweepstakes easier was the fact that Ohtani wаnted to stay on the West Coast. Real teams that want to get Ohtani would still be in the running, like the Dodgers, Giants, and Mariners. But the big market teams in New York and along the East Coast would no longer be in the running.
The Boston Red Sox are an East Coast team that has a lot of money to spend and a good reason to do so after finishing last three years in a row. He told the New York Post that the Boston Red Sox “loom as a real threаt” to sign Shohei Ohtani. Oh no!
Shohei Ohtani may be willing to go to the Eastern League, which makes it even harder for the LA Angels to keep him.
Before teams like the Cubs and Rangers joined, the task was already tough with only West Coast teams playing. Things will be even harder if Shohei lets teams from the east play.
More and more, Shohei Ohtani and the Red Sox are being linked. One executive who has a team interested in them said he thinks they are a real threаt. Ohtani has signed a big new deal with Boston-based New Balance. Even more important, the Red Sox need to even things out after finishing last three times in four years.
Yeahman talks about a link Ohtani has in Boston with New Balance. He also talks about how the Red Sox want to get out of the AL East basement. Like the Angels, they were in the Һunt all season but really let down near the end. Getting a player like Ohtani could get fans excited about winning again.
It’s not clear if Ohtani wants to play for the Red Sox, but they have every reason to try to get him. That could give an owner like Steve Cohen the chance to snub a possible Angels offer and take them out of the running totally if Ohtani is open to going east. Maybe they would have a better chance if only West Coast teams could play.