Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim second baseman Shohei Ohtani is the centerpiece of the summer trade rumor mill, and an interesting claim has been made.

John Heyman, a major league baseball writer for the New York Post, appeared on the Bleacher Report livestream on Aug. 18 and estimated a 25 percent chance that Ohtani would be traded and a 5 to 10 percent chance that he would re-sign with the Angels during the offseason.

Even if Ohtani is traded, he doesn’t think he’ll go to the Los Angeles Dodgers, the team’s rival in the Freeway Series.

He predicted that Angels owner Arte Moreno would not send Ohtani to the Dodgers, a local rival.

The Dodgers and Angels are rivals in different leagues but share the same Los Angeles area. They play interleague games every season.

While they don’t compete for the division title, they have a strange rivalry. As a result, the two teams don’t make trades easily.

In February 2020, the Dodgers reportedly agreed to a trade that would have sent outfielder Jacob Pederson and right-hander Ross Stripling to the Angels, but the deal fell through.

It’s not like there have been no trades at all. The last trade between the two teams was in December 2014, when the Dodgers gave up left-hander Andrew Heaney for infielder Howie Kendrick, but that was part of the Dodgers’ trade with the Miami Marlins.온라인카지노

In 1972, the Dodgers gave up five players, including Frank Robinson, in exchange for pitcher Andy Mathersmith and third baseman Ken McMullen.

Anything can happen in the trade market, but it seems unlikely at this point that the Angels would give up such an iconic player to a local rival.

The Dodgers have a chance to keep Ohtani if they wait just a few more months. He hits free agency after this season. Heyman predicted that the Dodgers have a “very good chance” of signing Ohtani this winter.