Shohei Ohtani gets big respect points for his play, but he is clearly not 100 percent healed after suffering a subluxation of his left shoulder four days ago.

“Running is the most painful,” said one Dodgers person. “He should just hit him on the seats!”

Other Dodgers folks estimate he’s 80-90 percent of himself, which is still better than 99.99 percent of mortals.

An old scout from a rival team doesn’t give him any excuses. “He’s just having a hard time right now.”

The Yankees really wanted Tommy Edman, but felt “left out” because the Cardinals, White Sox and Dodgers were working with the three of them for weeks. Big loss.

The White Sox, losers of 121 games, scored a coup when they hired untouchable Rangers bench Will Venable as their new manager.

Venable turned down the Mets (and others) for an interview the year before. People thought he was the heir apparent to Rangers manager Bruce Bochy because he was a coveted coach and was close to Rangers honcho Chris Young from their days together on the Princeton baseball and basketball teams. He also interviewed on the South Side (but never in New York) when they hired Pedro Grifol (maybe he prefers deep dish).

The Mets people were shocked. Venable took a job with a team in the midst of a major rebuild after turning down a job interview a year ago. But it’s okay, Carlos Mendoza turned out great.

Ex-Marlins manager Skip Schumaker retired a while ago. Like everyone else who interviewed, he was impressed with White Sox GM Chris Getz. But let’s be honest, he just broke away from the Marlins.

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Craig Albernaz is seen as Miami’s favorite.

The early smart money sees the Mets re-sign Jose Iglesias, aka Candelita, to a major league deal. Iglesias was a delight in the Mets clubhouse, as well as on the field, where he hit .337 (he’s the batting champ with plenty of at-bats).

Speaking of batting champions, Luis Arraez stood on the field with his left hand in a bandage. He had surgery to repair the ligament damage he suffered over the summer. It didn’t matter, he kept playing and won his third straight batting title.

A sweep would have been quite a shame in this World Series with the teams with the best records in each league (the fifth time this has happened in the wild card era in 30 years, via Jayson Stark), the two MVPs (Aaron Judge and Ohtani) and the two home run leaders (also Judge and Ohtani).