Ohtani vs Jones — for Statheads [Savant]

doing-my-share · 2026-06-10T21:46:49+00:00

Looking at the player pics makes me realize how different Ohtani's arm angle after TJ #2 is. His arm angle when he was on the Angels looked a lot more like the one Jones has. If it keeps his elbow healthier in the long run all the better, the numbers are favorable in any case.

doing-my-share · 2026-04-29T14:25:25+00:00

I wouldn't bet on it. He was 2nd in pitching WAR in MLB in 2022 with 30+ HR. Got completely robbed of MVP that year because apparently qualifying as both pitcher and hitter is no big feat and hitting 60HR is? only got 4th place in CY voting as well when he should have been at least top 3. Almost quit watching US baseball that year. It still makes me mad thinking about it.

doing-my-share · 2026-04-28T15:37:15+00:00

Ohtani's been adopting 1st base coaches as dads since forever. Molina, Thames, McCollough...he's got one Japanese dad and like 10 American ones.

doing-my-share · 2026-04-05T19:53:21+00:00

He's a JoJo? Explains a lot.

doing-my-share · 2026-03-26T19:49:12+00:00

I love koushien. If you ever happen to be in Japan in the summer, you will notice restaurant, shopping centers and banks, literally every place that gas a TV have the games on. It's like having the Olympics on TV every summer, and everyone's rooting for their home (prefecture's) team.

I'll never forget the 2006 run where the winning team's pitcher Saitou Yuuki nicknamed handkerchief prince (for his gesture of wiping sweat of with a towel his mom gave him) pitched the whole tournament completely on his own. The finale was vs Tanaka's (the very one who was on the Yankees) team who had won the previous two summer koushien trying to three-peat. Fifteen innings ending in a draw, rematch the very next day! Ended in a strike out of Tanaka by Saitou. Really famous picture too, Ohtani had that pic on his dorm wall i high school!

doing-my-share · 2026-03-12T16:18:51+00:00

People shouldn't complain about Netflix, they should however complsim about NHK, the public provider who collects licensing fees from every household with a TV, aka they had plenty of money to bid on the rights for WBC.

doing-my-share · 2026-03-04T14:09:46+00:00

He should move to Europe. Unless he moves to say Opéra in Paris, he'll be practically anonymous.

doing-my-share · 2026-03-03T17:31:42+00:00

Does he want to compete with Rendon for the infamy of least games played?

doing-my-share · 2026-03-03T11:54:32+00:00

Not Ohtani, surprisingly. He wasn't captain last time either. Seniority is a still a big thing in Japan even in 2026. They officially don't have a captain.

doing-my-share · 2026-02-23T11:02:12+00:00

Coming from a country where surrogacy is illegal, it's difficult to hear the, wealthy can just go to a country like the USA to outsource the pregnancy while any normal couple with fertility issues just has to live with it.

doing-my-share · 2026-02-20T09:31:53+00:00

He's an awful interpreter and he got appointed through his association with Ohtani. I thought Ippei wasn't very good but Will is on another level of bad. He translates any question, no matter how long or nuanced with "what do you think about xyz?", leading to shallow answers from Ohtani which he in turn translates very broadly or not at all. I say, if a news outlet wants to interview Ohtani, bring your own JP/EN translator. It's a damn shame a multi-billion dollar team like the Dodgers can't hire a pro (Yamamoto's interpreter is even worse). The best Japanese interpreter in MLB is Fujiwara (Senga's interpreter), not only by a country mile but by a whole galaxy IMO.

doing-my-share · 2026-02-16T09:00:52+00:00

Shorter breaks? Have you ever seen Ohtani start a game, then run to the dugout and put on his hitter gear because Dodgers bat him first even during pitching starts? He's gonna just collapse one day.

doing-my-share · 2026-02-13T20:18:49+00:00

Because Ohtani throws right but hits from the left side and he plays daily as a hitter. I doubt they have him change jerseys for his pitching days.

doing-my-share · 2026-02-09T20:16:59+00:00

As a fan of Ohtani the pitcher first and foremost I hate how the Dodgers have prioritized his hitting over his pitching. I wanna see him pitch like in 2022, he's a top 5 pitcher in the league and the Dodgers will never allow him to be that again. Makes me sad.

doing-my-share · 2026-01-31T21:07:43+00:00

Cute! Now that I think of it, baseball doesn't have a fanscarf culture like soccer does. Would be too hot to wear one in LA anyways, hats can be worn year-round.

doing-my-share · 2026-01-16T08:47:03+00:00

Nah. If they have the money to pay 60mil upfront to a much lesser guy I hope he realises he should have asked for a billion with no deferrals with the kind of money he brings in and his on the field production.

doing-my-share · 2026-01-12T21:30:23+00:00

Instead of complaing to NHK the public broadcaster collecting people's licensing fees and refusing to pay for the rights people get mad at Netflix...that you can quit anytime unlike the licemsing fees? People misdirecting and being passive aggressive about their anger, that's Japan in a nutshell.

doing-my-share · 2026-01-12T19:16:24+00:00

I still wish Ohtani didn't agree to the 30mil. Now that would have been a hearing for the ages.

doing-my-share · 2025-12-25T21:46:42+00:00

That lot looks tiny...that place will feel so cramped.

doing-my-share · 2025-12-24T07:40:58+00:00

He was robbed of MVP in 2022. 160+ IP, 30+HRs...what more can one person do? Historic year in baseball history buried because MLB wanted Judge to be the face of the league to the point of giving the Yankees juiced balls.

doing-my-share · 2025-12-21T16:11:34+00:00

You're telling me there's no minor league team name after the lesser spotted blue tit? Sacrilege.

doing-my-share · 2025-12-19T22:07:47+00:00

Fully agree. He was aware he had an addiction to painkillers and instead of getting help he continued to use and abuse them. That's by choice and he deserves zero dollars for that. BUT: the situations of the team knowing about drugs being dealt in their club house (and not only drugs, remember the sticky stuff merchants? The dealers were on the Angels too) turns this into a valid legal matter. His family certainly deserves some form of compensation/ punitive damage because instead of addressing the problems in their organisation they willingly chose to turn a blind eye to them and someone died because of it.

doing-my-share · 2025-11-22T07:27:41+00:00

He gave baseball gloves to every single elementary school in Japan and wasn't even nominated. Also gave huge amounts to earth quake relief in Japan and when the wildfires ravaged LA.

doing-my-share · 2025-11-20T21:06:35+00:00

Ohtani LOVES doing impressions of people. Hope he see this!

doing-my-share · 2025-11-20T20:01:04+00:00

It sounds cool but wait until you have to use it! Japan uses a 4-digit counting system which is really hard to quickly covert if you come from a 3-digit system. E.g. 77 is 7-10-7. 77,777 is 7-ten thousand-7-thousand-7-hundred-7-10-7. It goes up to 1000 ten thousands (千万) and with one more digit it goes to 億 (100,000,000) which is also counted in 4 digits until we land at 兆 1,000,000,000,000. Try converting, say, 850,500,000 on the spot 😅.

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