If you’re a Milwaukee Brewers fan in need of a post-Halloween haunt, here’s a shiver: Shohei Ohtani was closer than you think to landing inside the NL Central. Picture the best player on Earth rolling into Wrigley 13 times a year to erase games with one swing and hijack random June nights with his electric arsenal of pitches on the mound. That wasn’t a fantasy; it almost happened, and the NL Central would still be feeling the aftershocks.
Ohtani isn’t just rewriting the record book in L.A. — he’s daring everyone else to keep up. The real Midwest mystery isn’t his GOAT trajectory; it’s how the Chicago Cubs fumbled a once-in-a-generation layup.