SHOHEI HOMERS AND ITS 9-1 DODGERS!!
With that home run, Shohei is now the official OPS leader of the National League.
I hope this fuckery goes as long a Lebron’s career….
“Are the Dodgers really going to give a 40 year old Shohei $70 million?”
“He’s still a top 10 player in the league!”
At that point 70m is more like a profit sharing program.
“Hey Sho here’s your cut of the money you brought in. Thx bro.”
That’s literally what all salary is, for every job.
Shoheu is just like me fr fr
I don’t why you got downvoted. You are absolutely correct.
Diamondbacks are selling a non-homerun hit ball for $10,000 because it’s Ohtani. More than the autographed perfect game ball from Randy. Let that sink in.
Not really. To be pedantic, some businesses run at a loss (notably tech companies in their growth stage). And so there’s technically no “profit sharing” going on
Also, the idea that all jobs are compensated in proportion to the revenue they generate is… well, just not how it works.
Pretty sure Shohei is also disproportionately bringing in revenue for the dodgers compared to his 70m salary.
Heck it was even more disproportionate when he was on the angels. That was part of the rumoured reason he wasn’t traded out - the amount of money he was generating.
He is but it’s worth adding that the Dodgers also play a role in that. Shohei’s sponsorship money went from \(30 million a year to over \)100 million within a few months of signing, being on a team that invests in winning and marketing its stars was huge for him just as he’s been huge for them.
It’s a lot more mutual than people will probably ever give the Dodgers credit for
Tech companies are kind of an outlier though, because the way VC funding works and profit incentives (rushing to acquisition / IPO) aren’t really the same as most other companies. But sure, that’s an exception.
Plenty of nonprofits.
What if he just worked on commission? Give him 50% of what he brings in.
The crazy thing is if Ohtanis arm holds up (big if obv but for the sake of argument)… lets say Ohtani sees a 60% decline in his bat and arm in WAR by age 40.
Ohtani is on pace for 13.2 WAR… he could lose 60% and still be a 5.3WAR player.
Or your average like MLB all star. 5.3WAR would be enough to make him a top 15ish NL player.
Its kind of nuts Ohtani could see a big decline and still be a top player in his old age.
He’s the unofficial ERA and official OPS leader of the National League!!
Even in the game you’re not allowed to do this but he does it in real life.
MVP race is over in June lmao
.925 OPS with a 0.74 ERA
Just…gross
He said in the interview he’s not happy with his performance right now and you could see him say the word “Fuck!” when he gives up a hit and also that angry face when he strikes out.
Think he needs to get angry, his happy attitude isn’t helping him get to his final form lol but he’s doing good in my opinion.
It’s the Michael Jordan mentality. When you’re clearly the greatest, you need to find ways to challenge and motivate yourself or you’ll stagnate. The difference is, Jordan created a world in his mind where everyone hated him and was out to get him, so he took everything “personally” and was always out for revenge to prove himself. Whereas Ohtani sees himself as his own competition and has raised the bar so high he’s basically trying to compete with ‘21 Ohtani, ‘22 Ohtani, etc.
The scariest part is I genuinely believe he’ll find a way to make whatever little adjustments he needs to improve those numbers even more. Dude is min-maxing in real life
What a fucking guy.
And he started so slow too
OPS has climbed 50 points (.894 to .944) in the almost 5 games of June
Junetani is real
Isn’t Schwarber still higher?
It dropped after he got a K, yes. When this home run happened he was the highest.
He can throw. He can hit. He can crow!
He is The Pan!
First in OPS and ERA in the NL… He is the most ridiculous player ever
Literally two ridiculous players in one.
If you took Shohei and split him in two, you would have 2 hall of famers.
Exactly. And still some people want to see more before they say he’s hall of fame ready
I don’t think its HoF thats the question (outside of a few very boneheaded traditional guys). Its usually brought up in the GOAT question.
Maybe i’m crazy but i just don’t see ohtani as goat material…
Don’t get me wrong he’s obviously an amazing ball player but it’s just too fucking greedy to list him as also goat just listen to his voice pitch and tone, bleating it is all horrendous, his teeth are all wrong, his posture is awful, his running form is fucked, he’s basically bald, and he’s only got 2 legs.. like I just don’t think it’s fair for this greedy greedy man to not be satiated with just being the best ball player ever now he also wants to branch out into being a goat?
You had me in the first half I’m ngl. Clever bastard, I hate you. Just kidding. I love you.
Ah you’re right
He can be in the HOF after 10 years…2027 would make it 10. After that, it’s about the most no-brainer-est of all no-brainers that ever stumbled around with no brain.
If/when he gets his 5th MVP, they should just make an exception and just put him in the HOF, even while he is active. 0 need to delay it.
What else could those people possibly need to see? Harold Baines is in the HoF for gods sake, HAROLD BAINES!
The man with a career WAR of 38.8 that led the league in slugging once and had less than 3,000 hits. I know that was not a standard induction but give me a break, do not tell me you can tell the story of Baseball in this era without mentioning Shohei in your first 3 sentences.
Let’s not kid ourselves. Shohei will be mentioned in the FIRST sentence, in a “Besides Shohei Ohtani, we mustn’t forget legends like Aaron Judge, Paul Skenes, and aging Mike Trout also played…” way. Because in the future, if anyone was to know anything about baseball in this era, there’s only one player I’m banking on acheiving Ruthian status… With the rest being of Gehrig status at most.
Wouldn’t he die if you split him in two though?
Yeah, I mean you’d probably have some other ‘splaining to do if you did that, but it would make for a memorable induction ceremony certainly.
Nope. They have a heart on each end
Bob Costas said, if you wall off all the HOF to just 20 guys. Ohtani would make that list now.
He’s a walking statistical impossibility.
He is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the Matrix.
ERGO! VIS-À-VIS! CONCORDANTLY!
14+ WAR is looking possible.
Beating Babe Ruth to set the single season WAR record would be something, that’s for sure.
At this point the Angels need the police to stop the game to save them
Sorry, but the LAPD won’t do anything even when actual crimes are happening.
They’ll do plenty, it’s just not what you want them doing
Angels (slaughtered) in the Outfield
This is an actual crime.
26 outs to go
Dodgers just taking out their anger from the 6-0 sweep last year.
Or the extra-inning scare last night. Players want to go home early and spend time with their fam
It’s lapd. They usually come five hours later
Five hours later: “We came and didn’t see anything 🤷🏽♂️”
“Can we have a billion more in funding please?”
“Hello po-lice? Shohei Ohtani’s coming to beat me up!”
lmao
Time for the Angels fan in the stands to start a riot
“Police presence at angels stadium”
“Hello? Police? The dodgers are tryna beat me up”
Arte will sooner spend money on the team, than the LAPD showing up. Nothing but Wiggums.
2 for 2 in the bottom of the 1st
Can he hit for the cycle….in the first inning?
this would be even crazier than Tatis Sr I think
A cycle in the first inning means a minimum of 28 batters for the Dodgers and 23 runs. Certainly that would be crazier than Tatis Sr
THE NUMBERS DON’T LIE!!!!!
AND THEY SPELL DISASTER FOR YOU!
i think there should be a mercy rule in place before facing the 28th batter of the same inning
Technically all managers can forfeit at any time they want to.
If anyone has a chance it’s Ohtani.
I saw it was 4-1 a while ago. Then saw this highlight. Assumed it was like the 3rd or something.
Jesus christ what a paddling
He has more hits than dodgers have outs made
That aligns with his pitching stat where he had more total bases batting than what he’d given up to Arizona earlier this week.
I once saw him make two outs in an inning. Not pitching.
The sound of the crack of that bat was glorious.
Jesus fuck, alright already, uncle uncle!
I give just please make it stop!
This is how I felt watching the Giants-Cubs game yesterdays. Can we just forfeit and get ice cream for a good try😭
Managers are allowed to forfeit at anytime. They don’t but they could.
TIL
He’s mad he spent 6 year there and didn’t get to the playoffs.
Kochanowicz is a baseball terrorist. He’s gotta go.
You realize that Arte Moreno will probably live past 89. That’s after 2035.
Every game, every at bat, every swing and every pitch, we’re watching history. Shohei Ohtani.
Are you gonna post this in every thread
Every thread, every post, and every comment, we’re watching history. u/HeavensRoyalty
You better believe it. I just wanna feel like I’m included.
Keep going
THERE
Every thread. Every post.
Every post, every thread, we’re reading redundancy. Shohei Ohtani.
You’re literally that “Every game, every at bat, every swing and every pitch, we’re watching history. Shohei Ohtani.” Guy now haha I love that i see you here again.
THERE IT IS!
You know what. Keep up the good work!
Sorry Angels bros
Dread it. Run from it. Junetani arrives all the same
How did you clip Mike Trout’s reaction and aging in CF so quickly?
The Giants have had a bunch of super high-scoring games recently and we wanted to try it out
The giants spread it out though. At this rate it’s dodgers 43, angels 4 (3 Mike trout home runs)
“And Mike Trout with a big home run to cut the lead to 8”
Shit like this is why we’re behind like 5 wins on our Pythagorean.
Turns out, they’re onto something.
Shohei Ohtani is the biggest bully in baseball
This is probably just confirmation bias, but I feel like he usually goes hitless whenever his team is destroying their opponent.
I’ll never forget that game at Coors when he was still on the Angels. Angels won like 25-1 and there was an inning where he made two outs after the Angels bat around the Rockies.
He bat 1-7 during Junetani that day lol
I think because during those time he really want to statpad homers ironically enough, but trying hard not working for him.
Counterpoint: Jack Kochanowicz is so bad, a batter can’t help it.
Yama finally getting run support. 🥲
9-1 Dodgers? More like 9-1-1 Dodgers.
.947 OPS, 0.74 ERA.
0.74 ERA
Whoops typo, thanks.
This is my first Dodgers game because I won a contest for something tomorrow. Incredible inning
somebody buy this dude season tix
You’d also have to buy me round trip flights from the opposite edge of the Midwest but I do appreciate the end goal
Stop they are already dead
2⁄2 with a single and home run in the first inning is nuts.
Why couldn’t he hit two HR in same inning, overrated.
Don’t give him any ideas.
Hello darkness my old friend
dodgers on pace for 216 runs, assuming they only hit in 8 innings
Atleast we aren’t the angels
You guys have an incredible bullpen. Jason Adam + Mason Miller, locked down bullpen.
oh it’s still the first inning
“SHOHEI HOMERS” used to be a line I loved to hear, now it just brings sadness. I’ll never stop being an Angels fan, but there’s literally nothing to root for beyond an aging Trout.
This is just sad at this point lol
Dodgers taking out their anger from the 6-0 sweep last year.
Game is over before the Angels had recorded 2 outs.
What an insane inning. Bad pitching, errors fielding, and ungodly unlucky bloop/bounces for hits.
Potentially the highest Baltimore chop I’ve ever seen in my fucking life
Jesus 😭
…is Japanese
Kochanowitz against this lineup is hydrogen bomb vs. coughing baby. Then pair that up with Brent Suter who already stinks and you have got whatever the hell just happened
He will NEVER the Angels forget that they let him walk.
Why would he think about his ex in any capacity ? His new bae got him two wedding rings already.
I feel so bad for Angels fans, all three of them. Most obvious Ohtani homer, no doubt off the bat, no doubt before he even came to the plate. And it’s been *ONE* out. One.
JUNETANI HAS ARRIVED
The Angels led at one point this inning. Now Shohei Ohtani has outscored them… in the same inning.
Now Shohei only need a Double and a Triple to get a Cycle.
But can he do it in the first inning?
Can’t complain that Yama doesn’t have run support tonight
He’s no longer the ace; Roki is /s
Some would say that this score is not ideal
Shohei ….awesome offense against Angels who disrespected him by not including any of his acomplishments as an angel in 60 yr video. since that video Angels went fr .500 to the cellar. Karma
His first hit of the inning was a 1ft chopper that he beat out, and then this 406ft homer lol.
Meh; averaging a 230 ft lineout is no way to increase OPS.
I’m sorry…DOES THAT SAY 1ST INNING??
90MPH middle is certainly a choice
This Ohtani guy is good
FADE ME
Stop allowing these short cut off highlights FFS!
O_O
This guy really is unreal.
angels fans dont deserve this lol
I’d rather have ChatGPT be the GM of the Angels over Perry Minasian.
Hell give Deepseek a shot.
EDIT: Damn, even ChatGPT would keep Jack. Fuck AI
Boy that got out of hand really quickly.
Yamamoto: Runs? For me?
yea I was like “ah looks like it opened up in the 7t….1ST INNING!?!?”
I know we’re trying to give Yoshi more run support, but this is a little much
spread it out over more games why lose 0-1 etc and bunch up runs like this?
Yamamoto must be in heaven
Position player pitching post for the 2nd inning ?
what are shohei’s stats since going on that little 2 day break that dave roberts gave him. feels like he’s gotta have a crazy ops since then
Shohei said his last game before the 2 day break is where he found it again, which if included, puts his numbers at: .430 BA, .521 OBP, .759 SLG, and 1.280 OPS in 21 games since May 12, the highest OPS in the majors in that span.
Jesus Christ
wtf
Shohei Ohtani is him
Greatest player I’ve ever seen
panda plates are in play, everyone
I feel bad for Trout stuck on this crap team with crap owners.
He signed an extension, chose to stay.
Trout to the Dodgers for some prospects….
How many innings is Miggy pitching today?
How is he getting better every year? It’s just insane.
The dodgers didn’t even give us 2-3 innings to let ourselves lube up, they just went for it
A few days ago said he wanted to get his slug up. Dude just manifest anything he wants.
With how the first inning was going, that homerun felt so inevitable
Myles Garrett first pitch buff 😂
need Garret to pitch the 9th inning
Okie dokie goodnight everyone
upload the full home run trot or don’t post it at all
We really are witnessing something historic. I can’t help but root for the guy.
Personally, it’s always weird seeing my two teams play each other. Sadness and happiness in each game. Was a great game.
Does MLB have mercy rule?
If you’re going to upload a home run highlight, at least let us see the guy round the bases.
Against the angels is diabolical
Thank goodness it ended in 9. I was already feeling bad for the Angels’ pitcher
DE-molished.
somebody greased up all the balls or something lol