Tag Archives: Shohei Ohtani
Shohei Ohtani gives the fans what they paid to see
Whenever you go to a show you are almost guaranteed to get what you paid for. Concerts, Broadway, Comedy Clubs, you usually get what you expected to get when you decided to go out. Sports are a whole different world as anyone who paid out for the 2017 World Series Game Seven can attest to. …
Oh My Ohtani
Some games are not like other games. Last night, the baseball world witnessed a game in whichthe following things happened In the top of the first a player struck out the side In the bottom of the first a player hit a lead off home run In the bottom of the fourth a player hit …
Pitching / Pitching / Pitching
The Dodger rotation at the end of the 2023 season was basically Kershaw / Miller / Lynn and possibly Pepiot if they needed that fourth starter. Which was one broken pitcher, a rookie, a home run prone fill in, and another rookie. Now, that wasn’t how they started 2023, the expectation for the 2023 rotation was Urias …
Angels going for it
Using baseball reference the players with the most at-bats per position for the Angels in 2017 looked like this: Pos Name Age PA BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ C Martin Maldonado 30 471 .221 .276 .368 .645 74 1B C.J. Cron 27 373 .248 .305 .437 .741 99 2B Danny Espinosa# 30 254 .162 .237 .276 …
Was Shohei Ohtani born or built
As I was reading the Dylan Hernandez piece on Shohei Ohtani the thought came to me that if I was going to build a baseball player, Ohtani-San would be what I’d hope to replicate. He throws 100 MPH, he can hit a baseball 500 feet, and now I just read he’s as fast as Billy …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 