Tag: Shohei Ohtani
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The Next Big 3 Has Arrived
Have you ever heard of big 3’s? World domination as I like to call them. It is derive by the strength and numbers of what a ball club, organization, or franchise consist and this year it is no different than what is to come with the arrival of the big 3, again.
I am talking flashing light like always but even louder, noisier, and bigger with the likes of Los Angeles’ own Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and unbelievably Roki Sasaki.
This is a world domination beginning in Hollywood. The flames are passing along to other’s misery anticipation of the 2025 MLB regular season.
That is not to say what the future holds for MLB as a whole.
The misery was no different for Los Angeles offseason but what they leaned on was the prominent signing of Roki Sasaki and possibly sealing the future of at least years 10 years to start.
Japanese born descent players have changed the game. They are no longer the generation of old that bored the MLB community. Now, it is pop funk fun, only, to the credit of L.A. and that is concerning because we saw the last situation such as this evaporate in the Miami Heat and the Dodgers are set in financial ways like no other.
Ohtani is a phenomenon but history repeats itself with the size and increase and player’s egos and personalities in Major League Baseball. For now, Ohtani, the Dodgers ball club franchise organization unite and lean on last year’s acquisition of Yoshinobu Yamamoto and promising Roki Sasaki who seems to be the silencer from the gate and draw attention like any Big 3.
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Greatness has Gotten in the Way of Ohtani
As we enter a new dawn of an era with the likes of Juan Soto, Aaron Judge, and others aligning the stars in MLB. One, favorably has always attributed to mind and that is Shohei Ohtani. A 50/50 champ himself is reigning in is in one what is his second season with Los Angeles Dodgers after firstly safely winning the 2024 World Series.
The scope of it is Ohtani is not stopping and does not intend on stopping but if it were to be said that like many players in most recent past, selfishly cheated? ESPN Sports Reporters were talking highly in-depth on New Year’s Day about the jeopardy that Ohtani might have sustained after the interpreter incident.
And after turning the page to 2025. There is something to be said to MLB fans globally and commissioner Rob Manfred.
Ohtani deserves further investigation and possible punishment for how sloppy of a con act this truly is. Why would a cheap interpreter or store clerk for example even want to mess around with Ohtani’s legal team and expose such stupidity.
Ohtani and his wife announced their first child. Yay! How about announcing to the world anything else such as your pets, uncles, aunts, etc. Ohtani could be a theft but nonetheless is a tremendous baseball player.
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The Greatness of Mike Trout
Anaheim Angels Mike Trout is like thinking of a superhero figure walking in the northern hemisphere of Planet Earth. The guy can hit, amuse, fist bump his chest and still look good. These are the qualities that make or break Trout.
Greatness is defined as being great, distinguished, or eminent, and none of those sometimes exemplify Trout. Trout, for example, did not adore commercials, an undesirable way to catapult to the top. Eminence was not on his mind all the time, even though there were choices.
Trout would also be hit by a significant of lows marginalizing to highs as a loyal cast member of the Angels for the last thirteen years of his full career. Meaning, if it was one top play after the other or a walk-off moment that solidified absolutely everything.
It was a telling moment, however, when Shohei Ohtani struck out his Angels teammate Mike Trout in the 2023 World Baseball Classic and put aside talk that the kid from Millville, NJ could come up clutch for Team USA.
The real talk is Trout still has some years left of baseball in him but his career greatness of .299 BA and .991 OPS cannot be overshadowed to go along with his excellent fielding jinx, of course.
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The Dodgers Changing the Game of Business
The Los Angeles Dodgers are not messing around. It is 2024 and the landscape has changed. Shohei Ohtani is a Dodger and Japan’s economy is doing well as the 4th largest in the world. In other news, words must have broken as well that Yoshinobu Yamamoto, another Japanese player of descent, is now wearing blue and white too. It was not the only remark Los Angeles and President of baseball operations Andrew Friedman desired as they also made a play for Teoscar Hernandez, Tyler Glasnow, and Will Smith who is interesting.
Smith, a gifted offensive catcher, had just become the longest to sign a major league history contract. He signed for 10 years, $140 million, and is not looking back and Andrew Friedman in this case. The luxury tax benefits that come with this profit.
Now, there have been some lingering issues with the MLBPA, and righteously so but even through stressful economic times. Rob Manfred has not shied away from risk and reward and speaking aloud that it is unlikely at this time for MLB expansion. The teams want it as well as a.previous guest here on Sports Kingdom by the name of Rick Curti and the Charlotte Bats.
But when the Dodgers have $1 billion accrued in total deferrals. The landscape has changed. With new statures and limitations on the horizon, do not shockingly expect teams to follow the same blueprint and turn it into a colossal cesspool.
Otherwise, rookie contracts are wagering quite okay by mathematical standards and the game is back to business.
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What to Make of Shohei and Ippei
Shohei Ohtani has been baseball’s sincerest project in the last half decade. He has taken by storm and withered an unlikely rain drought for the Anaheim Angels and now Los Dodgers. If it means one clue to the disappearance of Ippei Mizuhara, it is clearly this.
Ippei was accordingly under a bookmaking scheme. Why? Why would he jeopardize his job security, future, and court legalities on Matthew Bowyer? Nobody really knows as MLB is undergoing a federal investigation but in the meantime. It begs to question the light of a betting and backstabbing society.
While Ohtani might be the one at fault, it is not hard to argue the popularity of FanDuel, ESPN Bet, and deceiving looks whether that be a poker table or interpreting words.
Ohtani is due to earn $700 million and in deferrals too so many eyes are cast upon the latest phenom and righteously so. Last year he obtained his second AL MVP trophy, especially over teammate Mike Trout.
Speaking of which, Trout recently said he is not taking the easy way out by leaving Anaheim and righteously so. However, what happened during the 2023 World Baseball Classic? And what has occurred in the past couple years with injuries?
It would be miraculous at this point for Trout to return and lead the Angels. He is not doing selfishly. Ron Washington agreed to become the Angels managers most recently.
It is not hard to figure Ohtani has surrounded himself with better teammates such as Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman but certainly not others around him.
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Shohei the Money
Shohei Ohtani has officially signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers for $700 million and cash deferrals, crowning him the richest athlete in any sport. That ranks him richer than Lebron James, Tom Brady, and other LA athletes in particular.
Ohtani is a 3-time MLB All-Star and 2x AL MVP with the former Anaheim Angels. The Angels did not try to elaborate and extend a matching qualifying offer, without repercussions. Expect glory once more in Los Angeles and it is not this time necessarily about rolling the red carpet premiere for Jerry Maguire again.
Hence 2024 is a new chapter of the dawn of Ohtani. He does not have to be extra which is exactly why the Dodgers bought him out. He can be as valuable as a team player swimming in deep water late against Mike Trout for example.
MIke Trout squared off against Ohtani in the 2023 World Baseball Classic and when the final pitch narrowed. It was all over. Japan had won over USA and now there has been a recent surge of pitchers to post-assignment in the states possibly such as Roki Sasaki, Shota Imanaga, Kodai Senga, and Shohei Ohtani.
Last year, Ohtani averaged .304 and hit more than 40 home runs for the second time in a single season. His last pitching performance was in August against Ella De La Cruz and the Cincinnati Reds rumored to sign the Japanese phenom.
A 3.14 ERA solidified the icing on the cake for the Yankees, Mets, and Angels to steadfastly walk away from Ohtani. Ohtani is richer than his original 2018 $42 million contract and for all the right reasons. He is smart, aggressive, and flamboyant.
The Dodgers organization already has itself a contending winner in the clubhouse and Ohtani.
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