Will Shohei Ohtani Play Outfield This Year? Pitch Next Year? + More Los Angeles Dodgers Questions
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- Could Shohei Ohtani play the outfield for the Los Angeles Dodgers this year? Is their longterm plan still for him to be a pitcher? Could Bo Bichette and others be trade targets for LA? How concerned are we about the current Dodgers? All those listener questions and more, we'll dig in!
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I want to see Ohtani pitch and hit in the same game as a Dodgers player!!!
Ohtani decided for second surgery BECAUSE he wanted to pitch on the highest level. He can hit without surgery, even pitch around 90mph..but he said “what’s the point to pitch when you can’t compete with the best” that’s why he wants to pitch.
It’s people like Brian Kenny of MLBTV who says Ohtani should only hit (since 2018)
If the Dodgers struggling offensively doesn't get them to Finally Embrace small ball 😤 then it's Never going to happen!
What do you mean by "small ball"? One of the problems with "small ball" is that it means something different to everyone.
Ohtani would be way too expensive and not worth 700 mill strictly as a hitter. He has not proven his worth in a playoff situation.
So we're just going to ignore the fact that Vince plays soccer?
Vince was at a soccer match as a spectator, not as a player.
I'll worry the moment the trade deadline is done and our bench remains being the one we have now. As for moves I would really try again with Arozarena and Mason Miller or another pitcher (since we don't know how/if Buehler, May, Graterol, Kersh will settle and/or if Glasnow, Treinen and Stone will stay healthy on their quality outings).
As for Mookie I wouldn't mess him by sending him again to the OF. I'm pretty sure Lux will keep regaining his batting and I think/hope Outman will recover his confidence. Kiké will be fine as long as they give him enough AB's. CT3 is a lost cause.
They should try him as a 2way before pulling the plug. Last year he was a superb hitter while pitching. This year he is better, but not that much better that compensates all the value he brings as a pitcher. They will not rush him. It’s the first year in a 10 year deal. If they go for arenado or similar, make muncy a 2B and send mookie back to OF, Rojas can play SS. Or go look for an OF at the deadline if they think it’s needed, it’s may, too soon to panic, the bats are cold this past week but will get hot again, they have the luxury to try different things before before the playoffs.
Why would you want to take away what makes 😕 Ohtani unique!!! Yet alone paying him 700 million dollars for a regular D.H. although the Best 👌 one in baseball ⚾️ but not enough to Justify such a MASSIVE investment!! Dodgers fans 💙 want to see him pitch! If he pitches 4 or 5 years out of the NEXT 9 then I'm good 👍 😌
Yes. We want Ohtani to pitch at least 2 more years. Let's go Shotime Shohei!
Dalton Varsho can also be an Emergency back up catcher!
Dodgers should have stipulations in Ohtani's Contract that if he does choose not to pitch at all during the entire duration of his contract 🙄 then the Dodgers should get a small discount!
What about Neto from the Angels?
Neto is injured has a bone fractured and still under medical checks and recommendations.
Dodgers spent 1.3 Billion dollars 💸 this past year and the team still has flaws! I can't see the Dodgers spending another 500 million dollars for Juan Soto!
No. We don't want Soto.
Forget about what Nightingale said, he knows nothing about Ohtani's mentality and thinking and his potential abilities at all. Once he mentioned Ohtani has less passion towards Pitching, then it meant he knew NOTHING about Ohtani! Ohtani was originally expected to be a pitcher by 90% of MLB scouts(including Dodgers scouts) and only about 10~15% scouts seeing his hitting potentials during his high school years. Only Nippon Ham Fighters previous manager Kuriyama (manager during 5 yrs of Ohtani in Fighters & 2023 WBC Champion Japan Team Manager) believes in Ohtani's 2-way/3-way baseball talents. Ohtani has been doing 3-way since high school and continued 3-way(hitting, pitching, outfielding) in his Japan Rookie year. Fighters stopped Ohtani's outfielding duty after he got leg injury and eventually becoming Fighters' Ace Pitcher in 2nd year and got regular started pitching rotation in 2nd yr. Ohtani has always been the Ace pitcher in his teams since then both in Fighters and Angels where he produced 80 wins and only 34 losses and his career ERA in Japan as 2.52 and in MLB as 3.01 with strikeouts 648 in Japan and 608 in MLB. Ohtani himself always feels doing both pitching and hitting giving him the best balance at baseball performances overall and therefore betterment in both pitching and hitting. Instead in 2019 when Ohtani was only a hitter, he had too much time and thought too much about hitting and ended up spoiled the balance he was keeping since he became a professional baseball player. Besides, Ohtani felt that many of his arm injuries hindered his chances to discover more of his pitching potentials like 2022 when he was ranked 4th in the CY race with 2.33ERA and his best MLB record of 15 wins in the season. Ohtani has answered to NHK interview last season that he would want to explore more for both pitching and hitting, especially at the pitching which he thinks he is still have 70% to grow and only reached out 30% of strength compared to hitting which would be a 40% more to explore. Ohtani will not satisfy of giving up pitching before exploring all his own possibilities and potentials because Ohtani wants to be the 'Best' baseball player!
Besides, just take a look of the scuffs of Ohtani's both arms, he bared all the pains of surgery to double strengthen his pitching arm, you see Ohtani's determinations to come back to pitching. And watching Ohtani's happy smiling face after his every other day pitching rehab and the satisfaction he got from the gradual progress he had on the increasing strength and distances and the recent changes from causal throwing to setup throwing/pitching (sometimes with 2 seam pitching). If Nightingale ever paid attention to Ohtani's rehab pitching, he would never give comment of Ohtani having less passion on pitching and willing to give up pitching because the facial expression of Ohtani while examining regularly his pitch grips during his rehab pitching shown Ohtani's mind set on 25 season scheduled starting pitching is already on fire!
Well said. 👍
Ohtani will not play outfield in regular season. Maybe the playoffs.
Hard to see them playing him there in the playoffs if he hadn't done it in the regular season at all.