From a Giants fan, this guy has made baseball so fun to watch again. He is literally history in the making and once in a lifetime player. Dodgers are real lucky to have him, but us baseballs fans are even more lucky to see this guy becoming possibly the best MLB player in history.
He was exceptional since high school and people thought he would go straight to MLB.However, through his time at NPB, he has steadily evolved as a two-way player, and is now the number one baseball player in history and on the planet.I'm happy to have seen it all.
AGREED! I'm 70+ years old and have seen so many baseball greats play - Mantle/Maris, Hank Aaron, Roberto Clemente, Tug McGraw, to name a few - BUT...Shohei Ohtani...OMG...I've never seen another baseball player as 'special' as Shohei - completely incomparable!
Shohei Ohtani's life plan (from age 18-42) he wrote at 16 years old: • Age 18: Join an MLB team • Age 19: Master English and reach AAA • Age 20: Called up to the Majors, make 1.5 billion JPY (translates to $13 million in US) • Age 21: Starting rotation, 16 wins • Age 22: Win the Cy Young Award • Age 23: Member of Japan WBC team • Age 24: Throw a no-hitter and 25 wins • Age 25: Throw fastest pitch in the world 175 kph (or 108 mph) • Age 26: Win the World Series and get married • Age 27: Member of Japan WBC team & MVP • Age 28: 1st son is born • Age 29: Throw 2nd no-hitter • Age 30: Get most wins by a Japanese pitcher • Age 31: 1st daughter is born • Age 32: Win 2nd World Series • Age 33: 2nd son is born • Age 34: Win 3rd World Series • Age 35: Member of Japan WBC team • Age 36: Break the strikeout record • Age 37: 1st son starts baseball • Age 38: Stats drop, start to think about retirement • Age 39: Decide to retire at end of next season • Age 40: Throw no-hitter in my very last game • Age 41: Return to Japan • Age 42: Introduce the American system to Japan "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." -Norman Vincent Peale
@@jurinaissance Great point. Before he came over, most scouts also thought he would become better at pitching than hitting. When Shohei struggled in his first spring training with the Angels, one scout called him basically a high school hitter and suggested he should be sent to the minors to adjust. Only after Albert Pujols and others suggested to Shohei to change his high kick to toe tap did his hitting really take off.
Shohei Ohtani will be the unanimously NL MVP, and it's not even close. There is absolutely no case for Lindor to be MVP, it's stupidity absurd and absurdity stupid. Lindor is batting .271 and has an OPS of .836 when was the last time someone won the MVP with an OPS that low? He is literally tailing The FACE OF BASEBALL in every offensive category, and it's not even close. As of 9-19-2024, Lindor is tailing Ohtani 29 RBI and it might even be wilder by the last game. Mookie Bett missed 3 months and two starting pitchers (Glasnow and Yamamoto) also missed two months, Kershaw was back and then out again. Miller and Buehler are trash, Ohtani pretty much carried the Dodgers, and with some help from Teo, the Dodgers probably wouldn't be winning the division if not for Ohtani's offensive prowess (51 home runs, 123 Run and 120 RBI). The Dodgers without Ohtani would be fighting for a Wild Card spot right now and San Deigo Padres would be winning the division. Ohtani is MORE Valuable to the Dodgers than (or as much) to Lindor's Mets. DH can't win MVP? and yet a few pitchers have won MVP in the past, and none of these guys come close to Ohtani offensive prowess. If pitcher can win MVP so can a DH. This is the media baiting and selling the news. After today and Ohtani 51-51, there is NO CASE for Lindor to be the NL MVP. I would dare say Shohei Ohtani is the Major League MVP. The last pitcher to win the NL MVP was Clayton Kershaw in 2014, and in the American League was Justin Verlander in 2011. Kershaw was 21-3 with an ERA 1.77. Verlander was 24-5 with an ERA 2.40. I am willing to bet Kershaw and J. Verlander never hit a home run or stole a base in their MVP year. While pitchers are mainly a defensive position offensively they don't do much and yet two have won MVP, so this absurd argument a DH CAN NOT the MVP is kinda stupid in itself.
This walk down the memory lane is brilliantly done. Of a top pitcher. Well done Verducci 🙏🏼 All respect for Marlins manager, Skip Schumaker for not intentionally walking Ohtani.
Odysseus said " Let them say I lived in the time of Achilles " - perhaps one day the epitaph of a devoted baseball fan might read " Let them say I lived in the time of Ohtani ".
I was there tonight, I witnessed history. As a nikkeijin i feel very proud of Shohei. This put up a show tonight, too bad i was sitting in right center waiting for #50 LOL ...
Thank you Tom for the poetic words to go with Ohtani historic baseball moment. We all live in between the baseball lines to touch the memories of our hero ghosts. Baseball is a timeless and beautiful realm where sons still play catch with their fathers even when their fathers are no longer around.
Congratulations to Shohei for joining first the 50/50 club ! ! ! ! ! If Shohei had entered the MLB immediately after graduating from high school as he had originally hoped, we would have seen Shohei only as a pitcher today. We wouldn't have seen Shohei as a home run hitter and a skilled base stealer, which we are now celebrating. Shohei himself intended to play as a pitcher in the MLB, and the MLB teams' executives thought the same. And he told the NPB teams not to draft him. Despite this, only the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters selected him as their first pick, and Shohei initially declined the nomination. However, the team and manager Hideki Kuriyama (who was also the manager of Team Japan in the WBC 2023) presented him with a detailed development plan and suggested that he would try playing as a two-way player as a professional, something that he himself had not thought about. Their enthusiastic persuasion paved the way for Shohei to become a two-way player in the professional league and made it a reality. Furthermore, the LA Angels accepted him as a two-way player in the MLB. And In 1921, manager Joe Maddon respected Ohtani's desire to "play every day as a two-way player", and removed the batting restrictions, giving him a freer environment. I can't express my gratitude to all of them. Thank you, thank you, thank you !!!!! Of course, I would also like to thank his father, Toru, and Hanamaki Higashi High School's manager Hiroshi Sasaki, who built the foundation for Shohei as a great baseball player, as well as his mother, Kayoko, his elder brother, Ryuta, and elder sister, Yuuka, who raised Shohei to be a kind and generous person. （I used Google translation.）
Ohtani is the masterful sculptor, meticulously chipping away at the marble of perfection with each precise and deliberate stroke. As his chisel meets the stone, he delicately unveils the hidden beauty within, gradually revealing an unparalleled masterpiece that transforms raw material into sublime art. Each contour he carves, each fragment that falls, mirrors his dedication and refined skill, as he shapes the ordinary into the extraordinary. What emerges is a testament to his vision and craftsmanship, a flawless creation that stands as a monument to his timeless genius.
If he gets 500 homeruns, 3,000 hits and 300 wins, he will forever go down as the greatest to ever play baseball!!! Better than Babe Ruth, who he might even be better than already!
It be impressive, but unlikely, he’s played for 6 years in the majors and still doesn’t even have 1,000 hits, maybe next year he will cross that threshold but he’ll probably never reach 3k, 500 hrs is possible. Before this season I’d have said no, but I never thought he’d hit 50, so maybe. He’s just over 200 now, so it will be tough he’d need to average 30 hrs across his next ten season, that’s pretty hard, only the best have done a feat like that, and Ohtani would have to do that in the back half of his career. As for 300 wins, ohtani has been playing for 6 years and has only 38, getting to 100 might be difficult, but 300 wins is kinda outdated, I doubt any pitcher going forward will reach that threshold with how the game is played today. All that said, Ohtani is a much better player than babe Ruth was. Ruth played against much weaker competition with a way different style of play. Of course Babe grew up playing stick ball at his church orphanage, ohtani has been getting elite training since his youth, Ohtani is a better player, but who was/is more talented, that’s the real question.
When the offseason arrives, every baseball fan will form an opinion about Ohtani's 2024 performance and what lies ahead. I'm looking forward to the commentary from those that know far more about America's pastime...You're right stab in the middle of history folks! Do him justice.
*This is very surprising (!)* The way the Dodgers handled this is shameful and real baseball fans should know it (!) But no one is talking about it . . .
Crazy to think he got into the 40-40 club on a walk off grand slam and now got into the 50-50 club by himself on a 6-6, 3HR, 10RBI day. Incredible
Mind boggling
The things he does are like scenes from a movie. don't forget the WBC faceoff with Trout as well. :)
And the two steals! 🏃♂
20 runs it felt like an NFL Game.
Just imagine had he not got caught on third base, he would have also had a cycle to boot.
Great video
9 ohtani vs any mlb team
ohtani wins
From a Giants fan, this guy has made baseball so fun to watch again. He is literally history in the making and once in a lifetime player. Dodgers are real lucky to have him, but us baseballs fans are even more lucky to see this guy becoming possibly the best MLB player in history.
This is giving me tears. Wow, greatness and a legend in our midst
Same it was crazy watching that game today I just love baseball!!!
He was exceptional since high school and people thought he would go straight to MLB.However, through his time at NPB, he has steadily evolved as a two-way player, and is now the number one baseball player in history and on the planet.I'm happy to have seen it all.
I am so lucky to be alive to see this man play ball
AGREED! I'm 70+ years old and have seen so many baseball greats play - Mantle/Maris, Hank Aaron, Roberto Clemente, Tug McGraw, to name a few - BUT...Shohei Ohtani...OMG...I've never seen another baseball player as 'special' as Shohei - completely incomparable!
Shohei Ohtani's life plan (from age 18-42) he wrote at 16 years old:
• Age 18: Join an MLB team
• Age 19: Master English and reach AAA
• Age 20: Called up to the Majors, make 1.5 billion JPY (translates to $13 million in US)
• Age 21: Starting rotation, 16 wins
• Age 22: Win the Cy Young Award
• Age 23: Member of Japan WBC team
• Age 24: Throw a no-hitter and 25 wins
• Age 25: Throw fastest pitch in the world 175 kph (or 108 mph)
• Age 26: Win the World Series and get married
• Age 27: Member of Japan WBC team & MVP
• Age 28: 1st son is born
• Age 29: Throw 2nd no-hitter
• Age 30: Get most wins by a Japanese pitcher
• Age 31: 1st daughter is born
• Age 32: Win 2nd World Series
• Age 33: 2nd son is born
• Age 34: Win 3rd World Series
• Age 35: Member of Japan WBC team
• Age 36: Break the strikeout record
• Age 37: 1st son starts baseball
• Age 38: Stats drop, start to think about retirement
• Age 39: Decide to retire at end of next season
• Age 40: Throw no-hitter in my very last game
• Age 41: Return to Japan
• Age 42: Introduce the American system to Japan
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." -Norman Vincent Peale
Set your goals low like him and you be fine. JK, this guy is exceptional.
たぶん55歳まで続ける。
今シーズンオフは子作りだろうな
amazing how most of his plan is focused on being a great pitcher, and yet he's instead breaking records as a great hitter
@@jurinaissance Great point. Before he came over, most scouts also thought he would become better at pitching than hitting. When Shohei struggled in his first spring training with the Angels, one scout called him basically a high school hitter and suggested he should be sent to the minors to adjust. Only after Albert Pujols and others suggested to Shohei to change his high kick to toe tap did his hitting really take off.
i must say... 2024 is a great year to be alive. watching Ohtani is dream i hope to never wake up from. let's win the world series dodgers!!
He hasn't even pitched yet. He's pretty good. 2024 is just the beginning. Let's go Dodgers.
Shohei Ohtani will be the unanimously NL MVP, and it's not even close. There is absolutely no case for Lindor to be MVP, it's stupidity absurd and absurdity stupid. Lindor is batting .271 and has an OPS of .836 when was the last time someone won the MVP with an OPS that low? He is literally tailing The FACE OF BASEBALL in every offensive category, and it's not even close. As of 9-19-2024, Lindor is tailing Ohtani 29 RBI and it might even be wilder by the last game.
Mookie Bett missed 3 months and two starting pitchers (Glasnow and Yamamoto) also missed two months, Kershaw was back and then out again. Miller and Buehler are trash, Ohtani pretty much carried the Dodgers, and with some help from Teo, the Dodgers probably wouldn't be winning the division if not for Ohtani's offensive prowess (51 home runs, 123 Run and 120 RBI). The Dodgers without Ohtani would be fighting for a Wild Card spot right now and San Deigo Padres would be winning the division. Ohtani is MORE Valuable to the Dodgers than (or as much) to Lindor's Mets.
DH can't win MVP? and yet a few pitchers have won MVP in the past, and none of these guys come close to Ohtani offensive prowess. If pitcher can win MVP so can a DH. This is the media baiting and selling the news. After today and Ohtani 51-51, there is NO CASE for Lindor to be the NL MVP.
I would dare say Shohei Ohtani is the Major League MVP.
The last pitcher to win the NL MVP was Clayton Kershaw in 2014, and in the American League was Justin Verlander in 2011.
Kershaw was 21-3 with an ERA 1.77.
Verlander was 24-5 with an ERA 2.40.
I am willing to bet Kershaw and J. Verlander never hit a home run or stole a base in their MVP year. While pitchers are mainly a defensive position offensively they don't do much and yet two have won MVP, so this absurd argument a DH CAN NOT the MVP is kinda stupid in itself.
"Oh my GOSH! SHOHEI, OHTANI!! The greatest day, in baseball HISTORY!"🤘 😝🤘
Tom Verducci did Ohtani proud with this vid.
Kudos to you sir!.... and to Ohtani-san!!
This walk down the memory lane is brilliantly done. Of a top pitcher. Well done Verducci 🙏🏼
All respect for Marlins manager, Skip Schumaker for not intentionally walking Ohtani.
It was an 11-3 game, if it was a close game they would have walked him, but in a blowout not that important
Thanks for the great video. 💙Ohtani is a beautiful player and person.
Odysseus said " Let them say I lived in the time of Achilles " - perhaps one day the epitaph of a devoted baseball fan might read " Let them say I lived in the time of Ohtani ".
I love this…well well said.
50th of the 50 HR record holder, that blew my mind 😮
#51 not just an ENCORE but a Moonshot. 56 stolen bases and 55 Home Runs? How far can he go? NL MVP 2024!
This video is a great storyteller full of lyricism, honor and respect✌️ Love it.
大谷をすぐにMLBに行かせなかった栗山監督の判断は正しかったな
翔平はそのおかげで確実に成長できた
Wow. Great video. Ohtani IS the best overall player in MLB history and one day will be the all time 🐐 by winning 2-4 championships .
I was there tonight, I witnessed history. As a nikkeijin i feel very proud of Shohei. This put up a show tonight, too bad i was sitting in right center waiting for #50 LOL ...
Great video! Ohtani Unanimous MVP
Thank you Tom for the poetic words to go with Ohtani historic baseball moment. We all live in between the baseball lines to touch the memories of our hero ghosts. Baseball is a timeless and beautiful realm where sons still play catch with their fathers even when their fathers are no longer around.
The greatest of all time! 🐐👑
Seeing his achievements reaffirmed how amazing the greats of the past were.
😢😢😢 amazing player. Blessed to be able to watch this. Go DODGERS!
とても素敵なVTRでした😂
ありがとうございます
GOD
When I saw him hit the 50th I said that man is a God as I hopped around my house pumping my fist.
And ppl try to put lindor next to sohei..please..
majestic tribute to the greatest player of all time
Im not a baseball fan coz of Ontani i become MJB fan... if MJ GOAT in NBA Ohtani is GOAT in MLB
おめでとう😂大谷翔平
そして 育ててくれたエンジェルスにも感謝
私は大谷が大好きです❤️
彼の成績は素晴らしいですが、いつも彼が野球を楽しんでいる姿が印象的です。
私は一人の日本人として、アメリカの皆様が、彼に快適な環境を用意してくださっていることに感謝いたします。
ありがとうございます🍀
Baseball Japanese Jesus
Moreover, he is a pitcher. The Dodgers will have a happy problem.
Congratulations to Shohei for joining first the 50/50 club ! ! ! ! !
If Shohei had entered the MLB immediately after graduating from high school as he had originally hoped, we would have seen Shohei only as a pitcher today. We wouldn't have seen Shohei as a home run hitter and a skilled base stealer, which we are now celebrating.
Shohei himself intended to play as a pitcher in the MLB, and the MLB teams' executives thought the same. And he told the NPB teams not to draft him. Despite this, only the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters selected him as their first pick, and Shohei initially declined the nomination.
However, the team and manager Hideki Kuriyama (who was also the manager of Team Japan in the WBC 2023) presented him with a detailed development plan and suggested that he would try playing as a two-way player as a professional, something that he himself had not thought about. Their enthusiastic persuasion paved the way for Shohei to become a two-way player in the professional league and made it a reality.
Furthermore, the LA Angels accepted him as a two-way player in the MLB. And In 1921, manager Joe Maddon respected Ohtani's desire to "play every day as a two-way player", and removed the batting restrictions, giving him a freer environment.
I can't express my gratitude to all of them. Thank you, thank you, thank you !!!!!
Of course, I would also like to thank his father, Toru, and Hanamaki Higashi High School's manager Hiroshi Sasaki, who built the foundation for Shohei as a great baseball player, as well as his mother, Kayoko, his elder brother, Ryuta, and elder sister, Yuuka, who raised Shohei to be a kind and generous person.
（I used Google translation.）
No feat is ever out of reach for the indomitable human spirit. Raising my glass to all the trailblazers 🥂
4:45 it's adorable seeing his teammates wave their arms back at him 😁.
Nice work MLB, epic bit for an epic game!
shohei HISTORY very Great
What a lovely documentary. Great Writing like this makes baseball so special. And we are so lucky to witness Ohtani making history every night.
Wow great great video which be on eternal in our memory 🎉
Beautifully done. Hope he can fulfill his path to a WS title
That quote sure fits how shohei and baseball came to be
Great video. Thanks.
Beautiful!!! Perfectly done.
PREP ANOTHER VIDEO FOR WHEN OHTANI GOES 60/60
9 games left they might rest him for post season
@@cwc8979 let him rest. and please let him out of the bullpen to close out the world series for the dodgers. history
@@terry2705no. He should not pitch this season he needs to rest and make sure his elbow recover to 100%
To another legendary Ohtani MVP GREATNESS video. Ty
Nicely done video MLB Net !
Ohtani is the masterful sculptor, meticulously chipping away at the marble of perfection with each precise and deliberate stroke. As his chisel meets the stone, he delicately unveils the hidden beauty within, gradually revealing an unparalleled masterpiece that transforms raw material into sublime art. Each contour he carves, each fragment that falls, mirrors his dedication and refined skill, as he shapes the ordinary into the extraordinary. What emerges is a testament to his vision and craftsmanship, a flawless creation that stands as a monument to his timeless genius.
SHOHEI GOING FOR 60/60 LETS GO
The unicorn!
If he gets 500 homeruns, 3,000 hits and 300 wins, he will forever go down as the greatest to ever play baseball!!! Better than Babe Ruth, who he might even be better than already!
It be impressive, but unlikely, he’s played for 6 years in the majors and still doesn’t even have 1,000 hits, maybe next year he will cross that threshold but he’ll probably never reach 3k, 500 hrs is possible. Before this season I’d have said no, but I never thought he’d hit 50, so maybe. He’s just over 200 now, so it will be tough he’d need to average 30 hrs across his next ten season, that’s pretty hard, only the best have done a feat like that, and Ohtani would have to do that in the back half of his career. As for 300 wins, ohtani has been playing for 6 years and has only 38, getting to 100 might be difficult, but 300 wins is kinda outdated, I doubt any pitcher going forward will reach that threshold with how the game is played today. All that said, Ohtani is a much better player than babe Ruth was. Ruth played against much weaker competition with a way different style of play. Of course Babe grew up playing stick ball at his church orphanage, ohtani has been getting elite training since his youth, Ohtani is a better player, but who was/is more talented, that’s the real question.
Cool video.
amazing.
1nd
全てが必要な道程だったんだなあ
The GOAT 🐐🐐🐐
Exceptional player, exceptional person!
The Ohtani Club...he set the mark for others to come.
He is still a pitcher
Shohei charts into uncharted territories. He creates his own path.
Wow!!! Nice Tribute Video!!!!
We are all witnessing greatness….
GOAT
When the offseason arrives, every baseball fan will form an opinion about Ohtani's 2024 performance and what lies ahead. I'm looking forward to the commentary from those that know far more about America's pastime...You're right stab in the middle of history folks! Do him justice.
There will never be another player to grace the diamond like this man! He is 1 of 1! The best player in baseball history !! GOAT 🐐!
"how can you not be romantic about baseball?"
Somewhere, Mike Trout is smiling.
He improved his baserunning and power alot since coming to MLB. Great pitcher and hit for high avg in Japan but SBs and HRs were nothing like this.
Speed n power... Thunder n lighting... 50-50❤❤❤
And he is a pitcher.
GOAT
theres no path if hes already the greatest to ever play the game
He's the first baseball player to get a triple double, and a hat trick.
simply the best ever
漫画『Ohtani』
あまりにも現実離れしすぎて
読者から批判殺到
GOAT
*This is very surprising (!)* The way the Dodgers handled this is shameful and real baseball fans should know it (!) But no one is talking about it . . .
MVP Ohtani❤
He is bringing baseball back to the map! America’s pasttime need him and Judge
He is by no means still in his prime
I hope everyone gets to witness the next 10 years! 🥰
He was meant to be a Dodger from the very start. 😌
I'm going to watch and like every Ohtani hype video I find!
Witnessing the greatest to ever do it ! 🐐🦄
Great video, I was thinking how great it would have sounded if James Earl Jones or Morgan Freeman were narrating this video.
i took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference
I hope that Ohtani can maintain a good image and good example, because he is an idol of many young people, he is good, the world will be better.
ありがとうございます。
もう神です😂
何回見ても感動します。
最高です😃
Shohei创造了历史，而我们何其有幸，见证了历史，恭喜Shohei
"The one less traveled by" that's great quatation !
Great video!!
Thank you!
GOAT!!!!!!!
The whole sports network needs to cover ohtani more, he still does not get enough recognition from other sports athletes in different sports
awesome video. He is the goat.
Greatest of all time
Okay, but Shohei is a pitcher.
I remember this similar take with Trout back in 2017…this one is incredibly different
Sucks how he can’t pitch this year
Sh😮hei 😊htani... let’s go, Sh❤... Congratulations to you and the Dodgers 🎉🎉
Congrats Goatani!!! ⚾️