3 moves Steve Cohen would have already made if he was more like George Steinbrenner

2) NY Mets owner Steve Cohen would have sold the farm for Shohei Ohtani if he was more like George Steinbrenner

If George Steinbrenner got to know the existence of Shohei Ohtani, you better believe he’d be a member of the Yankees at some point. It doesn’t matter if they’re not a West Coast team. Steinbrenner would have found a way to make it work even if it meant flying Yankee Stadium across the country like they did with the old castle on the animated show Gargoyles back in the day from Scotland to New York.

Ohtani is the kind of superstar player Steinbrenner skips meals to have on his ball club. He is more than a once-in-a-generation talent. Ohtani is something we’ve never seen before.

Cohen will have a realistic shot at signing Ohtani in the offseason. However, if he was more like Steinbrenner, Ohtani would already be in Queens. He would have sold every last piece of the farm system in order to acquire the two-way superstar.

This would mean no Francisco Alvarez, Brett Baty, and a couple of other guys. It would have been the kind of massive haul for the Los Angeles Angels they could never imagine. Everyone on the Mets would be available. A guy like Pete Alonso would be on the trade block for a shot at Ohtani.

We can debate if this would be for the best or worst. Considering most huge trades in sports memory tend to benefit the team getting the surplus of talent over the one player, this might be too ambitious of an undertaking. Cohen has continually preached the necessity to build a farm system. This is a Steinbrenner move we should be glad he won’t make.