Tag Archives: Ohtani

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Shohei Ohtani hits 1st Dodgers HR after (relatively) slow start  Yahoo Sports Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]MLB opens investigation into Shohei Ohtani interpreter allegations  Yahoo Sports Source link

Fans who want to watch Shohei Ohtani‘s debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers will have to wait until 3 a.m. PT for the team’s opener against the San Diego Padres in South Korea on March 20. They can at least feel confident he’ll actually be playing that game. Appearing at DodgerFest on Saturday, Ohtani told reporters through an interpreter he feels “very confident” he will be ready for Opening Day after undergoing surgery for a torn UCL at the end of last season. He went into further detail while… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The Dodgers needed Shohei Ohtani. They still need a few other pieces  Yahoo Sports Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]MLB free agency 2023 tracker: Field of Shohei Ohtani suitors reportedly dwindles  Yahoo Sports Source link

The Los Angeles Angels are for sale. Arte Moreno, who has owned the team since 2003, will seek a buyer for a franchise that currently employs two of this generation’s most dazzling talents and plays in the country’s second-largest market. Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani and a foothold in the Los Angeles area. It would all sound much more appealing if Moreno’s tenure hadn’t turned into a blueprint for how to waste superstar talent by neglecting, bungling or outright refusing to invest in… Source link

It’s really important we don’t take Shohei Ohtani for granted. The Los Angeles Angels pitcher is coming off the greatest two-way season in the history of MLB — yes, even better than Babe Ruth — and he may very well surpass it this year. He is a talented unprecedented in baseball, but he’s become so big it’s hard to even remember how impossible the idea of him seemed as a prospect. So when he does something like, say, post a two-homer, eight-RBI performance, then strike out 13 batters… Source link

Shohei Ohtani was the story of the 2021 season, so much so that his presence is about to be felt in the MLB rulebook. MLB and the MLB Players Association have reached an agreement on a number of rule changes following the new collective bargaining agreement, Yahoo Sports’ Hannah Keyser confirmed Tuesday. Among them is a tweak to the universal designated hitter that will undoubtedly be known as the “Shohei Ohtani rule.” Under the new rule, if a team has its starting pitcher in its lineup as the… Source link