Trading Ohtani even if they are in it?

[Reveille1984]

I would trade him just because we need to restock the team honestly.  I love Ohtani and he's been a pleasure to watch the last six seasons, but I don't want to sign a $500M player where we're one injury away from losing both an ace and MOTO bat.  That has the capacity to be a franchise crushing contract, even more so than the usual big budget FA.

If this truly is the start of a Trout decline, and Ohtani walks for nothing, this team is going nowhere without some expert maneuvering from Minasian.  Our lineup would be a mishmash of something like - Neto/Trout/Ward/Moniak/Adell/O'Hoppe/Drury/Walsh and sometimes Rendon.  This on top of still having a bottom five farm system is  going to be very rough, and keep us in perpetual mediocrity.

[Adam]

Emulate the Braves and Rays not the Mets

[FromJapan]

Dodger Stadium Pregame Tour in Japanese is being held on July 7th and 8th. This is only for this two games against the Angels this year, but it is scheduled to be held next year. This year, the Dodgers employed two new Japanese staffers. One of them said, "If 'he' joins the team next year, we will definitely be busy."

Link: Dodger Stadium Tours

Reference in Japanese: Full Count (Japanese online baseball media) on July 8, 2023