With the Dodgers’ counterpart in the Freeway Series poised to miss another postseason this season, the Angels stand to lose one of the game’s best we’ve ever seen to Los Angeles in the winter.
Given Shohei Ohtani’s historic numbers and the failure to make a single postseason during his entire Angels’ tenure, at least one writer predicts that the Dodgers will poach the Japanese superstar to Chavez Ravine.
Of the small handful of teams that can hypothetically do a deal like that, none is in better position to actually do it than the Dodgers. Their payroll commitments are about to be more than cut in half, which is to say nothing of their ability to scratch Ohtani’s worsening itch to win and the mutual admiration between himself and Mookie Betts.