|
Are you effing kidding me?
This guy throws a one-hitter in game one of a double header. And then hits two bombs in game two?
I have been a baseball damn near my whole life. As a kid I grew up on Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays and Hank Aaron.
I have seen a lot of baseball. I have never seen a player like Shohei Ohtani.
Being a starting pitcher and throwing a hundred pitches takes a lot out of you. Pitchers need recovery time. Preparation for their next start is all about preservation. Pitching every five days for 6 months.
This guy pitches and then DH's the next day or in this case the same day. Then he goes and hits two dingers.
He has year to date 38 home runs and 80 RBI's. He is making $5.5 a year.
Next year he will make more than $50 a year. He will still be a bargain because he could win a Cy Young, MVP and lead all of baseball in HR's and RBI's. Verlander and Scherzer make $40 each. Verlander is 40 years old and Scherzer is 39.
Shohei is 29.
I don't know where he will play next year. But baseball fans are seeing maybe the best player to ever play the game.
| 
