Shohei Ohtani’s free agent decision process has kept the rest of baseball in a holding pattern, front office personnel filling the Opryland Hotel in Nashville but reluctant to make moves.
They have looked up and down the lineup and what they have seen is the Orioles and Rays in particular have better, mostly younger, more athletic players on both sides of the ball at catcher, first base, shortstop, third base and left field. They see in Aaron Judge and Clarke Schmidt the only two homegrown players of consequence on this team and wonder why the Yankee.
Jim Henneman checks in from Cooperstown, N.Y., where this year's National Baseball Hall of Fame enshrinement of Fred McGriff and Scott Rolen had a common theme: "Never give up on your dream and stay true to yourself."
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