ANAHEIM — Cincinnati Reds manager David Bell was asked Wednesday by some media clown before his team faced Shohei Ohtani how baseball’s superstar unicorn might fit in with the Reds’ young core as a possible free agent acquisition this winter.
The small-market Reds? The greatest and probably most expensive free agent in baseball history?
Hey, if Messi can join — and electrify — what amounts to the A-ball league of international soccer (sorry, ahem, football), then who’s to judge some rando baseball scribe from believing the impossible is in play for the modern-day Babe Ruth?