The two-way star of the Los Angeles , Shoe Hei ohtani has performed quite a bit in 2025.
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The HITANI batter has hit .284 with 42 home runs and has been hit with 78 runs, with an OPS of 1.013 this season. He also has 17 stolen bases.
Ohtani pitcher has 25 strikeouts in a 2.37 ERA and has just five walks in the 19 innings of work. He definitely pitches the best of all starters, but his sample size is small.
Otani’s performance in his second year as a was nothing short of spectacular, but it remains to be seen how long the superstar can remain both a batter and a pitcher.
“It’s always difficult to judge the lifespan of any carrier,” Otani said last month. “So my goal is to be able to play two-way as long as possible, and to be able to play as long as possible.”
Baseball business president Andrew Friedman has revealed that he hopes to provide more context behind the superstar’s vision and that Ohatani will remain a two-way star for the remaining eight years of his contract with the .
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“But we want to make sure that in his first year in a very systematic way,” Friedman said. “He has a pitching design for the last eight years, and I want to make this as much as I can.”
The were cautious about Otani returning to the mound this season, but he shows off an elite one with every start.
“I think it’s about evaluating after every outing,” Friedman said. “We do this in a very systematic way and we continue to build it, and we don’t know where it will stop, and we will continue to monitor how he holds his stuff and how his body is responding.
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