Shohei Ohtani's Historic MLB Achievement and Injury Risks

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00:00Let's continue to do this compare and contrast kind of thing.

00:02You have a stat on Shohei Ohtani,

00:04and then maybe you can link it to an old-time guy.

00:07Yeah, Shohei Ohtani, another one, too.

00:09It's just incredible history.

00:10Shohei Ohtani has 28 home runs

00:12and six triples through his first 80 games this year.

00:14The last MLB player to get there through 80 games,

00:18Willie Mays in 1954,

00:20who many people will argue is the greatest player all around ever.

00:24And that is a valid argument to have.

00:27But Willie Mays, Shohei Ohtani,

00:29which goes back to that other conversation

00:30we had earlier at the top of the hour,

00:32which is, you know, if Willie Mays could pitch,

00:35would you want him to pitch in necessarily

00:38and take on all that injury risk

00:40just to have him make 30 starts

00:42and impact another 150 or 160 innings with his arm?

00:46Maybe, maybe you do want him.

00:48And I get it.

00:48You know, I understand at some point,

00:50Babe Ruth stopped pitching, right?

00:52And I don't want to rob the game of the unicorn.

00:55I'm not the thief of joy here.

00:58I'm trying to say that I don't want Shohei Ohtani

01:01to miss a whole season or to, you know,

01:04have the Dodgers fall off as this juggernaut team

01:07because Shohei Ohtani is not on the field.

01:08And I'm just concerned that going back into this,

01:11this current era of pitching where velocity is king

01:14and all the stuff that everyone's doing,

01:16I just don't know if it's the best way

01:18to manage the massive investment we've made on him.

01:21I don't think anybody expected if Ohtani just hit last year,

01:25that he would be quite as 50-50 amazing as he was.

01:29There's a 50-50 player last year.

01:31Oh my God.

01:33Can we stop and pause and think about that?

01:35Those don't grow on trees either.

01:37I know it's amazing to watch,

01:38but it is scary to watch at the same time.

01:41You're kind of watching with your hands over your eyes

01:43and peeking out your fingers

01:44because it's almost like a suspense film

01:47where you're just hoping that everything's going to work out okay.

01:50And the adrenaline rush is fun.

01:52I just don't know if the end of the day,

01:54it makes you sick.

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