Rob Parker: “This is where I think Shohei’s got to be very careful. He should be a player that people are all into, look up to, admire, marvel at... I just saw a story in Forbes that the Dodgers season tickets doubled right after they signed Ohtani. By Ohtani doing this it looks like he’s LeBron James 2.0. He’s building a ‘super team’ and he’s doing it a different way than people have done it. He’s now going to turn himself from this baseball hero and unicorn that we can’t get enough of, into the villain. He’s building a super team where the Dodgers now, because of the way he structured his contract, could now financially go out and get two or three starting pitchers to go with Ohtani... Ohtani, if they pull this off and they do what they say they’re going to do [acquire Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tyler Glasnow], he should be villain number one in Major League Baseball. LeBron was vilified in doing something very similar, in that he altered the structure of putting teams together. It could be like people looked at the Yankees, the ‘Evil Empire.’ They won, they had the high payroll, they had the players, they won three out of four, and those guys were homegrown – Andy Pettite, Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada, Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams – those were all Yankees farmhands that developed into stars, but they added other stars [Roger Clemens, Jason Giambi, Alex Rodriguez, Mike Mussina, CC Sabathia, Mark Teixeira, etc.] and were the 'Evil Empire'. If Ohtani does this and it works for the Dodgers, that’s where I think he becomes a villain because the other teams will be like ‘dude, this is unfair’. He will have altered the ship in the power structure of baseball by going to the Dodgers, and then giving them such a team-friendly contract that they were able to stockpile two other star pitchers to go along with him, then they won three in a row, and then they will look at him as the villain.” (Full Segment Above)
Watch Rob Parker of Fox Sports Radio’s ‘The Odd Couple’ explain why he thinks Shohei Ohtani will soon become Major League Baseball’s biggest villain if the Dodgers end up tacking on star pitchers Tyler Glasnow and Yoshinobu Yamamoto following Ohtani’s unprecedented $700 million deferred payment-laden deal.
Check out the segment above as Parker compares Ohtani to LeBron James when he ‘took his talents to Miami’ and then recruited Chris Bosh to South Beach to combine with himself and Dwyane Wade, as the era of detested ‘super teams’ officially began.
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