The eyes of the baseball world will be on Shohei Ohtani on Thursday, November 10 when free agency opens in Major League Baseball, with the two-way player expected to fetch the biggest contract in the history of a sport that is defined by enormous deals.
The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal (11:30 mark) reported that the Dodgers remain the front-runner to acquire Ohtani's unicorn-like services but he cannot rule out the Mets and owner Steve Cohen being in the mix, either.
Cohen and the Mets should rule themselves out.
The are a number of factors to consider with the Ohtani deal that have very little to do with what goes down on the field.