Tom Verducci: Shohei Ohtani Might Be The Greatest Living Player | 9/25/24
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- MLB Network analyst Tom Verducci joins the Dan Patrick Show and discusses the record-breaking season we have seen from Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani as well as why he thinks Ohtani has a case to be regarded as the greatest living player
More you watch that 50th sb, you realize how smart Ohtani is. The timing he moved his toe to avoid the tag was just crazy. Being that big guy and able to control his body,, in the right timing an inch away from the glove,,, it’s just unbelievable.
Excellent point. He's by far the most fluid graceful player at 6"4 and above ever too. He's like a Tom & Jerry Cartoon you can't catch me. He's got like 35 steals in a row without being caught. How is that possible? As I said a few days ago he's the best combination I've ever seen of Smarts ,Skills, and Athleticism, ever to play.
Yeah, we have unconsciously starting to take Ohtanis greatness for granted..which is nuts!
I usually watch the highlights of games. I like going to games and watching the whole game, but for TV, I just watch the highlights. I've got stuff to do. But for the playoffs this year, I'm watching the Dodger series. I'm hoping to see some crazy play out of Ohtani.
Shohei didn’t join the 50/50 club he created the 50/50 club.
Thats fax big bruh! Sho will be magnificent in the playoffs mark my words.
The goat 🐐!!
Sho in your rear view is faster than he appears.
In 2022, Shohei decided he was going to be the best pitcher in baseball.
That year, he started 28 games, finishing with a 15-9 record and a 2.33 ERA. In his 9 losses, he gave up a total of 30 earned runs for an ERA of 3.33. Those 9 losses also include 4 quality starts that resulted in a loss or no decision despite posting an ERA of 1.75. Shohei finished 4th in Cy Young voting. He also hit 34 home runs and stole 11 bags that year.
Ohtani's 2022 season will be looked back upon as one of the greatest accomplishments and most underappreciated seasons in baseball history.
Should have been unanimous MVP, instead he was 2nd.
Looking back at Judge's 62 HR in 2022 it was also the first time in 20 years that the league stopped testing for substances.
Ohtani should be getting his 4th straight MVP, he was robbed in 2022.
@@yamamancha It’s like the Trout and Kershaw syndrome a few years ago. They were just so much better than everyone else that just being themselves felt normal. Even if they played better than everyone else it didn’t mean as much because it was their norm. People get used to greatness and that makes them expect “greaterness”. If you look at both their numbers, they both should have won more MVPs or CYAs. Same thing with Ohtani. While his pitching should have been good enough for 3rd in the CYA, his offensive numbers weren’t as good in 2022, so he flew under the radar (seems impossible, but it happened). Years from now we’ll look back and be able to see that he should have been the unanimous MVP from 2021-2024 and beyond.
"Underappreciated" is a big fat "LOL," bud.
That headline just blew everyone away, what an oracle! 😂
Competing for Cy Young and HR title is mind blowing, truly special talent. They should interview that scout that said “He’s basically like a high school hitter” 🥴🤣
Not sure why it is so hard to say he’s the greatest living player. Apparently those with low IQ or in denial or haters can’t grasp the concept that it was considered impossible for one player to do all that he does, especially doing it all at elite levels.
We should agree he is the greatest of all time.
If he wasn't "oriental" they would have enshrined him in Cooperstown already and named a state after him and printed his face one $100 bill.
Why are you so intimidated by a little dissidence, buddy boy. It's healthy.
Stop putting all these words next to greatest. Living, two way, international blah blah blah. He’s just the greatest player ever
His career batting average is .280.
@@Vic-Vega if put every player in history in a draft and had the first pick, it would be ohtani
@@NayaWrapIt would? Who's to say with different managers some of these other players couldn't pitch(or pitchers couldn't hit) at a high level? You think it was Ruth's decision to separate his pitching and hitting seasons? Fat chance.
Ohtani's probably top-five all-time for me, but he still has work to do to earn the all-time baseball GOAT moniker.
He also probably cheated the game. That's just no issue for you whatsoever??
It's probably one of those infinitely debatable subjects, but yes, I think if you factor in all that Ohtani is and has done, he deserves to be called the greatest ever. In fact, I keep saying he deserves his own room at the Hall of Fame. Now.
Name me 1 player you would pick before ohtani to have on your team
Hopefully, we might see another 50/50 in a couple of decades, but the marlins game I don't think we'd ever see a better hitting stat line than that again.
Ted Williams was a man’s man. Fought in 2 wars and the last man to hit.400.
Only criticism I've heard about Ted is he wouldn't expand his strike zone, even in times when it might have been needed.
Shohei should have won the AL MVP over Judge in 2022 when he hit 34 home runs (95 RBIs) and won 15 games as a starting pitcher. That season alone was enough to cement himself as the GOAT.
I agree big big time
I love Tom❤
Greatness usually associates with accomplishments... I think Shohei needs some rings on him before we can say he's the greatest baseball player. But the BEST baseball player ever? The one and only Shohei Ohtani! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
サイ・ヤング賞とホームラン王 同時受賞したら奇跡だよね
It's possible for Shohei, no miracle needed for him, just opportunity.
Wow, I did not know that there’s an exact Japanese translation for the name “Cy Young”. His real name is “Cyrus” Young. Would there be an exact translation for that as well?
@@MikeCee7 I don’t think there’s another exact translation other than that as far as I know
@@syunnitirouu Thanks for you reply!
So, which of the Japanese symbols, translates to the name “Cy Young” This may sound dumb, but is there an exact translation for names like: Arnold Schwarzenegger? Or Sylvester Stallone?
@@MikeCee7 Thank you! for reply! I think 「アーノルド・シュワルツネガー」and「シルベスター・スタローン」is.
Sight to BEHOLD.
You can’t compare him to yesterday’s players.
Todays players are…
Stronger
Faster
More athletic
Smarter
And almost inarguably poorer hitters of the baseball!!!
Ohtani is the “Joey Chestnut” of Baseball! 🌭 😂
No more 2-way player... He's hits, steals, and pitch.... Do the math....
Not necessary to add the disclaimer of "living". Shohei is the most talented player to ever play the game. He hasn't accomplished enough in his career to be the GOAT just yet, but there is no doubt he is the BEST baseball player to ever live.
Agreed 💪 💯
I wonder how often they should pitch him, do they make him every other slot, giving him 2 weeks between starts? He's just too valuable to risk injury, right?
Can’t really walk him, he wrecks the bases too.
@@Sincity702boy Yeah, walking a top base stealer seems like a bad idea.
He's got closer written all over him this postseason (if Roberts isn't a coward, that is...).
@@Vic-Vega But then you'd be using him more often and wouldn't have any completely fresh games would he?
@@sloanNYCThe man's been DH'ing the entire damn season. If he ain't "completely fresh" right now, he won't ever be.
Verducci low-key states that he doesn't buy the Bonds 'record.'
If you listen carefully, he discounts McGwire's and Sosa's, too.
Might be ?
🐐
And with over 60 more at bats than Judge, it's Judge with more Home Runs and RBI's. Judge's Batting Average is
also much higher and he had to go thru the grind of being an everyday player, whereas Ohtani just sits in the
dugout while waiting to bat. All the additional power stats are in Judge's favor and he is comparable to Ruth, Gehrig
and Di Maggio in major stats for a season.
And how is he as a pitcher, numbnuts? 😂
I'm a big Judge fan as well but you aren't including the pitching aspect of Ohtani in 2022 and the other years...WAY more taxing n harder than playing outfield...
Any above average high school kid could play outfield
Bo ""Dont "" know Sho '''
Might be? He IS the greatest living player
Might be? Or he is? 😂
Did this guy say there's 150 guys faster then Shohei if he did he's out of his mind
Ohtani is at 72nd percentile in sprint speed on baseball savant. If there are 13 position players on each team and 30 teams you’d get 390 position players of which about 109 are faster than him. I think Verducci is a little high with 150, but it’s not as crazy as you think. Ohtani is definitely stealing these bases primarily based on elite jumps rather than elite speed.
He's not wrong. Check Baseball Savant.
Ichiro seemed faster, but even he wasn't stealing like Shohei. heck, even Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders didn't steal like Shohei...
Imagine if he was on roids.
He would join the 80/80 club with 1.00 ERA
Just for the h**l of it, it would be fun to see 😂
He might not have gotten hurt if he was on something, or would have recovered before injury got worse.
Look, his name is not Shohei James.
90/90 Club..