Joel Sherman

Joel Sherman

What the Shohei Ohtani Dodgers can learn from sports’ great super teams

There is no hiding. Not when you are this good. Not when you make this kind of splash in finances. Not when you add a megastar to a galaxy already under contract.

You can’t run from it. It is so overt. So front and center.

As much as anyone involved in sports, Bob Myers understands the position the Dodgers are in now. He was the general manager of a Warriors team that won a championship, then set a regular-season record with 73 wins but failed to win the title and responded by signing free agent Kevin Durant to a roster that already had Steph Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green.

“When you add someone like Kevin Durant in that situation, it felt like there was nothing acceptable outside of winning a championship,” Myers said. “That was the only thing that would suffice.”