GLENDALE, Ariz. — Planning for the extraordinary takes a special kind of audacity. Nobody points to center field and clears the wall with the next swing. One guy might have done it, but that was Babe Ruth, and nobody’s really sure, anyway. Then came Shohei Ohtani. Ohtani, the walking miracle of the Los Angeles Dodgers,…
HOUSTON — Tyler Ivey is at peace, but sometimes ponders his past as a passionless pitcher who still reached the pinnacle. Adrenaline aided Ivey through his major-league debut in his hometown, the sort of storybook tale only this sport seems to write. On the day it unfolded, Ivey weighed 180 pounds and could not feel…
DALLAS — So perhaps you’re wondering this week: What would I have to do to get some baseball team to pay ME $700 million? Hey, excellent question. And I think we’ve figured that out. On one hand, you could be a unicorn — a once-in-a-lifetime home run hero/Cy Young starter/make-the-impossible-seem-possible kind of guy. Like Shohei…