Editor's note: This piece was prepared prior to Jon Heyman's Monday afternoon report that the Angels have officially taken Shohei Ohtani off the trade market (and that the Yankees made an offer). However, Matt's piece below still makes for a more-than-worthwhile thought experiment worth exploring. And you never know! Maybe the offseason will offer a different picture for this nonpareil talent.
Every baseball fan probably knows the story of the Babe Ruth trade to the Yankees. Despite it being a bit of an exaggeration, the rough outlines go as follows: the owner of the Red Sox, Harry Frazee, was also a financier of Broadway musicals, and using the sales from a Ruth trade, totaling something like ~$1.