MLB’s perception problem

Baseball's biggest challenge is reminding fans of how many different teams have won the World Series this century

It feels like for my entire life, Major League Baseball has more of a perception problem that a real problem.

The latest existential crisis for baseball is because Shohei Ohtani, the best player of this century, signed as a free agent with the Los Angeles Dodgers for $700 million over 10 years. Ohtani’s average annual salary of $70 million the next decad…