5.) The non-stop flight time from Boston to Tokyo is just 14 hours—and there's only one flight a day!;
4.) The Daisuke Matsuzaka experience in Boston;
3.) The plethora of Toyotas, Nissans and Subarus in the area;
2.) The Red Sox currently have no Japanese players on the 40-man roster (oddly, a potential positive);
And, the single least-effective argument to help bring Ohtani to Boston:
1.) Look how we nurtured the last two-way super-star who played for the Red Sox!