Not every MLB team can afford to ink Aaron Judge to a contract. Or throw a bunch of money at one of the top free agents available.
So the next best thing is to trade for a star.
As we enter the 2022 offseason in baseball, there are a few names being thrown around as trade candidates. And I’ll take this moment to focus on one name: Shohei Ohtani.
There’s no way the Los Angeles Angels would deal him, right? Even if he’s in line for a huge contract in the near future, and even with the franchise being terrible, and even with GM Perry Minasian saying out loud that “Ohtani is not getting moved” … we have to throw him on this list as a possibility, and we’ll rate every player on a scale of 1 (not happening) to 5 (he’s gone).