Agree with your assessment
The Yankees did not exactly position themselves to be the Ohtani favourites since they are kind of bogged down with long/massive contracts already.
The Mets, who f***ing knows. All their new owner spending flopped horribly so they might be gunshy.
The Dodgers have very clearly been maintaining roster and payroll flexibility for a year+ so they can sign this guy. They have to be like, 70% favourites.
So you have the Dodgers up top and then a glut of teams including Toronto that could swoop in and overpay him to steal him from LA. That would include NYM, NYY, TOR, SFG, HOU, SEA, BOS, TEX. I mean, really anybody. Some of the smaller market teams could even make a case to increase payroll and extend for him. Baltimore, lmao. Imagine. They could do it. Baltimore.