Shohei Ohtani's Impressive Baseball Stats and Future Roles

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00:00this is a news alert for everybody. Shohei Otani is good at baseball. Everyone hit another

00:07home run this weekend. Look at the last 15 days leading up to the weekend. It's been

00:11fantastic. I mean, just unbelievable. Talk about putting a team on his back, eight home

00:16runs, 17 RBI, 14 runs scored a three 83 batting average, a 500 on base percentage. That's

00:23madness. Seven slugging and a 1457 OPS. I mean, Otani is just incredible. And it's funny

00:31Matt, because we asked ourselves at the beginning of the year, we talked about this question

00:34of what does Otani look like when he's not a pitcher? Like, is he still MVP quality?

00:40Can you get that level? Does he become a more dangerous hitter when he doesn't have to worry

00:44about pitching every fifth day? I think we've got the answer to our question. Yeah. He's

00:48a more dangerous guy. So I'm going to pose a new question to you. If you're the Dodgers,

00:54do you want Shohei Otani to pitch again and just make sure that he stays healthy and forget

01:01all that pitching stuff and just be this incredible player? Or because you're paying him a pitcher

01:05and a hitter contract, basically, do you need him to pitch again next year to justify the

01:11spend? We spent, speaking of spending, we spent a lot of time, which to me is the greatest

01:17currency in the world, talking about how the pitching is so volatile in the league

01:22right now. You talked about the Yankee pitching woes, Dodger pitching woes. We went and we

01:26talked about teams that could be out and we listed names of pitchers that could be on

01:29the move. Shohei Otani, he hit .383, we're talking about here in the last two weeks.

01:35Even if he hit .305, .315, and gave you two wins and an ERA that's sub three, dare I say,

01:46that to me is worth it. Yes, he pitches. Yes, he hits. This is the complete player.

01:51And he, Shohei Otani, can actually single handedly set the market right. He can calm

01:57all the waters if he does both things that he's expected to do. It's just the way the

02:02universe works, Joe. The other way the universe works is when a player is healthy, he's usually

02:07not very good. When a player is, excuse me, when a player's hurt, he's not very good.

02:11When a player's healthy, he's much better. Sometime, maybe, might. So there you go. Worst

02:15transition ever. You're welcome. Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be here for the next hour

02:18and a half.