Sometimes good managers of any business (GM in this case) has to be willing to make difficult choices for the health of the business. Go back 5-6 years and there was significant talk about trading mike trout for a massive haul. Now no one has any idea whether that would have changed the past few years but it could hardly have been worse.
the same franchise faced with the same decision and unable to make the difficult choice. hopefully the next 6 years are different than the past 6 years after the trout decision. I know that there is plenty of support for signinghim and maybe it was the right thing, but don’t you sometimes have to ask”what if?”
Now, I hope mike trout HAS to say that he has no idea what ohtani is gonna do, I really hope that. The alternative is that these guys don’t talk at all. After 5 years together no talks about the biggest decision in ohtani’s future, especially when it mirrors trouts decision 5 years ago.