When the Los Angeles Dodgers signed Shohei Ohtani to a 10-year, $700 million contract, manager Dave Roberts was faced with the task of choosing a batting order that included three MVPs in the lineup.
Instead of deciding for himself, Roberts let the players decide.
“We called the three of them into the manager’s office at the same time and talked with just the four of us,” Roberts told Japanese reporter Hideki Kuriyama of Hochi News, a Japanese outlet that was translated to English via Google. “Mookie (Betts) said, ‘I want to bat first or second.