Shohei Ohtani-mania ebbs and flows in Japan, and the next peak is building slowly with the Dodgers in the NLCS vs. the Mets.

Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman all represent the Los Angeles Dodgers while Francisco Lindor and Pete Alonso represent the New York Mets. First and foremost, it's a win for baseball to have so many prominent players on the national stage like this.

That can mean a host of things: fashioning a new pitch, steadying mechanics, out-scheming the opposition, solving for what the opponent is trying to do before they do it, and so on. It ought to go without writing that every player and every team has to make some kind of adjustments throughout the season.

The October of Lindor: The Mets traded for Francisco Lindor before the 2021 season then signed him to a 10-year, $341 million contract three months later. It has been quite an adventure since. The Mets have had three managers and three heads of baseball operations in Lindor’s four seasons.

Fairly, there really is only one true baseball comp for Shohei Ohtani, and it’s the fellow with the candy bar, legendary appetite and 714 home runs. So the most high profile matchup in this National League Championship Series isn’t really fair to Mets all-everything star Francisco Lindor,

A few days ago, we saw the story that New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor was almost acquired by the Toronto Blue Jays back in 2021. If you'll remember, Li