It’s absolutely crazy to think that Shohei is already in the GOAT conversation at 28 years old… but I can’t disagree at all. If he has a few more seasons in a row like this it will be absolutely undeniable. Everything that could be put into words about the guy has already been said by everyone a million times, but he is exactly what baseball needed. He’s increasing interest in the game at an unprecedented rate, and is making baseball exciting again.
I know there shall be "Shohei Ohtani Award" or "Unicorn Trophy" in MLB in time... The problem is, there may be no one really deserves for it for the very long time beside Shohei himself.
He should have won MVP last year. If he was in a big market he would have. Nothing against Judge, great player, and yeah the home runs, but come on, Shohei is a lock for MVP with numbers like these. Vlady had huge numbers in 21', but no cares about the Jays...
Funny thing is Yankees fans claim Judge was the reason they even made the playoffs but don't realize how pathetic that is considering the Yankees gigantic payroll.
@@southsider3542 Learn about false equivalence. It just means the Angels team is much worse than the underperforming Yankees, especially the their pitchers.
Athletes (and celebrities in general) will never be on the mythical level of guys like Gandhi or Einstein ever again. I bet if I walk down the street, more people know who LeBron or Mahomes or Messi are than Ohtani
What impress me most is his volume of work on pitching this year. He never misses starting every 6 days, 95 IP already. Considering he was in rehab term as a pitcher in MVP year of 2021, he’s now literally putting it ALL together which makes him an ultimate two way player
Let's be serious, Ohtani LOST the AL MVP to a guy that hit a lot of homers last season while he was being a top 5 hitter AND top 5 starting pitcher at the major league level. Now because he's hit a lot of homers and Judge is injured, he's now untouchable this season? Give me a break, he deserved it last season and will probably deserve it every season he stays a top ten in both hitting and pitching. Ohtani got robbed last season because a NY Yankee hit a lot of homers. 🤨😒
Totally agree - last year’s East Coast media bias was grotesque. 🤢🤮 The decision to award Judge the MVP in 2022 will be perceived harshly in the future.
i was really upset about last year's MVP race and the final decision. but, after I witnessed that 8RBI+2HR+13K-within-24-hours performance last June, I've told myself, from that moment on, the MVP debaite is meaningless. I've moved on to the GOAT of all sports debate. I've freed myself from the annual MVP waste-of-brain-cell-debate. I hope this helps. peace out
Yea it was a dumb thing that hitting one extra homer than 61 automatically cemented Judge for MVP. Or similarly this year people are calling for Luis Arraez automatically MVP if he ends with 400. Hitting 62 instead of 61 or 400 instead of 399 should not be the criteria. That said, Judge did have higher WAR but I think because of a lot people don't understand advanced stats, and that WAR doesn't really work with Ohtani (and thus would spark a lot of debate), the voters instead stick to the breaking Maris record argument but the problem with doing so is now you set a very bad precedent what qualifies a player for MVP (i.e. breaking a long standing record).
Ohtani is likely going to have hit 30 homeruns by the All-Star break. That alone is enough to make someone a MVP candidate, but he will also have thrown 100 innings with an ERA of around 3. It’s just baffling.
Shohei is neither a mystery nor abnomal. It is the result of “the difference in education” that Shohei Ohtani have received since their childhood and school days in Japan. Ohtani is undeniably a great athlete, but if he had been born and raised in the United States, with the same DNA would not have grown into the Ohtani of today. He was born and raised in Japan and received a Japanese baseball education from childhood, which is why he is the player "he is today". Not only his physical abilities and skills, but also his attitude toward baseball and competition, his stoicism in daily life, and his gentle and kind behavior as a person based on sportsmanship are the result of his baseball education in Japan from childhood to high school. He is not a unicorn or monster, but merely one of an honor student of Japanese high school baseball education. Japanese YAKYU bassball was derived uniquely from American-style baseball and took more than 100 years to achieve. The fact is that on this same planet, there is another baseball that exists in a different spirit than the US style. Of course, the roots of baseball are USA, but baseball that was exported to other countries from US and took root there developed in a different way. This would be a fact in this planet. To understand what Shohei Ohtani's motivation is and the basic idea in him, it is good to look at his goal sheet, which is very famous in Japan. It is an 81-square goal matrix sheet (mandala sheet) that he created as part of his school education when he was a 16-year-old high school freshman. You can see what he was aiming for at the age of 16, learning baseball, his future goals, his daily life goals, and what he chose as the keywords to achieve his ultimate goal. Of course, this is a story from his childhood when he was only 16 years old, so it is different from what he is doing now, but it clearly shows what he was aiming for, what he practiced, what motivated him, what he wanted to do, and what was related to the hidden part of his life. I recommend you to see it once. Many people who have seen it will probably be surprised at what they find out. It is a glimpse of who he is and where he came from. And it is clear that this has led him to where he is today as a major leaguer. He has worked hard and faithfully implemented the scenario he devised in his mind 12 years ago. And you can get a taste from this sheet of the real power of Japanese baseball education that allowed this to be created by a high school rookie. He didn't just happen to achieve his current power in the majors, but that it was a planned action. He is not playing baseball for money. He just wants to be the best in baseball one day and master the way of baseball (YAKYUDO) in his own way. I feel the same spirit as a licensed swordsman in Bushido Japan.
'Remarkable'? Why don't you call it as it is? Historic. They probably wore that word out last year when they kept talking about Judge's 'historic' season ever since he was at 30 HR, a feat that Ohtani had done in 21 before the ASB while also being his team's top staring pitcher. They ignored all of Ohtani's records last year to hype up that fraud and only hype up Ohtani when he's literally THE best hitter in the league. When he was one of the top 3 pitchers and top 10 hitters last year he was treated like trash by MLB media. They'd compare his hitting stats to Judge but wouldn't put his pitching stats on screen. Cowards. If you shit on Ohtani in 22 you shouldn't be allowed to use him for ratings now.
You don't need to be biased when choosing true mvp. Those idiots who still believe Aaron are better need to be more objective. Please give Sho the MVP right now
Judge is a better hitter, but the margin he is better at doesn't equal to a top 5 pitcher. While I don't mind Judge winning MVP last year, to think that he is better than Ohtani because he won the award is what makes me think that people are still under appreciating what Ohtani is doing. He may not win MVP every year, just like even MJ or Lebron cant win MVP every year, but Ohtani is by far the best player in our generation and it is not even close, he may very well be the best player of all time when he finishes.
Acuña isn't the right shade for baseball fans. Just like Bonds before him, a majority of baseball fans (who are majority white) do not want to see a darker skinned man succeed in a "white man's" game. Despite Latinos and blacks absolute dominating the game for 30 years
If ohtani gets the mvp stolen from him again this season is it cause mlb doesn't want an asian guy as the forefront of baseball? him not winning it last year was pure cringe. No player since Babe Ruth has done what he has done. He is the Michael Jordan off baseball period. If my Giants sign him I am buying season tickets. Hes worth 500m contract just give the guy the money. He goes to any decent team they will win a world series. Ohtani def has a chip on his shoulder after his mvp was stolen from him last season. He is making sure this season that nobody doubts his skill set again and putting judge into the shadows of baseball. Its the most dominate player I ever seen. It makes you wonder are you even watching a real human being at this point.
Ohtani's RBI is further sandbagged by being on one of the worst teams in Baseball. If someone could just get on the damn bases before he homers that'd be awesome.
Yeah dude has skills, sharpness, good looks and is and will be the richest MLB player soon. I admire him more than I am jealous of him. He deserves all that he's accomplished. He's great for all of sports.
@@phuckfumassters At the beginning of the season he was out for 10 games, he came back and surpassed everyone, when he got injured he was the Leader in HR Slug OPS OPS+, I also tell you that he is the 10th SLug of all time and 1st of all active players
Judge's contract will be one of the worse contract given out. The Yankees knew he was getting older and will be injured. They should have gone all in and waited to get Otani in FA. Judge is just a shitty version of Trout.
We're witnessing potentially the greatest individual season in the history of the sport.
What’s more crazy is people had been saying this for three straight years.
This man just never ceases to amaze the entire world.
Maybe in all sports
@@xdgs567zAgreed, if he keeps it up it would be the greatest season in all of sports.
This is not the first time he did that but he is just breaking his own best season..
100% the best single season in any major sport in modern times. All he has to do is stay healthy.
True. 400+ total bases from a non-roided player and who also happens to play the mound would be something truly out of this world. 💫
It’s absolutely crazy to think that Shohei is already in the GOAT conversation at 28 years old… but I can’t disagree at all. If he has a few more seasons in a row like this it will be absolutely undeniable.
Everything that could be put into words about the guy has already been said by everyone a million times, but he is exactly what baseball needed. He’s increasing interest in the game at an unprecedented rate, and is making baseball exciting again.
I know there shall be "Shohei Ohtani Award" or "Unicorn Trophy" in MLB in time... The problem is, there may be no one really deserves for it for the very long time beside Shohei himself.
he's the greatest baseball player of all time. just say it already.
Absolutely, if he maintains any type of consistency going forward it'll be the greatest career ever
remember when Brian Kenny was on this show saying Ohtani has to choose either pitching or hitting
Brian has selective amnesia 😂
Yup
🤣
Ohtani means the baseball. No doubt.
scary to think his offensive number should be much better, if Trout isn't having the worst slump of his career.
exactly
RBI is not his fault, his team can't get on base.
He should have won MVP last year. If he was in a big market he would have. Nothing against Judge, great player, and yeah the home runs, but come on, Shohei is a lock for MVP with numbers like these. Vlady had huge numbers in 21', but no cares about the Jays...
Funny thing is Yankees fans claim Judge was the reason they even made the playoffs but don't realize how pathetic that is considering the Yankees gigantic payroll.
If he was a white american he would've been
Last year wasn’t as grand for him.
@@onlydbraskoMakes what Judge did even more impressive than
@@southsider3542 Learn about false equivalence. It just means the Angels team is much worse than the underperforming Yankees, especially the their pitchers.
If he keeps up like 5 more years, I think he will end up being ‘one of 10 most influential people’ by end of this century.
I like this take
I am not just saying as a ballplayer. He could end up being an equivalent of Albert Einstein or Mahatma Gandhi of 20th century.
Athletes (and celebrities in general) will never be on the mythical level of guys like Gandhi or Einstein ever again. I bet if I walk down the street, more people know who LeBron or Mahomes or Messi are than Ohtani
@@southsider3542your missing the point .. him as a person he is great and what he has done also
What impress me most is his volume of work on pitching this year. He never misses starting every 6 days, 95 IP already. Considering he was in rehab term as a pitcher in MVP year of 2021, he’s now literally putting it ALL together which makes him an ultimate two way player
i'm a little worried though. is this sustainable ?
i'm just praying he doesn't participate in the derby.
Phenomenal😵💫
That exceeds my understanding🚀🌏
Shohei's favorite new pastime will be checking his mobile banking app next season.
His MOM HANDLES HIS FINANCES
they better optimize whatever banking app is that, coz the numbers will be infinite
He is King of Baseball ⚾️
Too good. Best Sho on TV and all platforms right now. Lets goooo HALOS
Let's be serious, Ohtani LOST the AL MVP to a guy that hit a lot of homers last season while he was being a top 5 hitter AND top 5 starting pitcher at the major league level. Now because he's hit a lot of homers and Judge is injured, he's now untouchable this season? Give me a break, he deserved it last season and will probably deserve it every season he stays a top ten in both hitting and pitching. Ohtani got robbed last season because a NY Yankee hit a lot of homers. 🤨😒
Totally agree - last year’s East Coast media bias was grotesque. 🤢🤮 The decision to award Judge the MVP in 2022 will be perceived harshly in the future.
MVP seems to be determined by the number of homers. that's too stupid😩
i was really upset about last year's MVP race and the final decision. but, after I witnessed that 8RBI+2HR+13K-within-24-hours performance last June, I've told myself, from that moment on, the MVP debaite is meaningless. I've moved on to the GOAT of all sports debate. I've freed myself from the annual MVP waste-of-brain-cell-debate. I hope this helps. peace out
Yea it was a dumb thing that hitting one extra homer than 61 automatically cemented Judge for MVP. Or similarly this year people are calling for Luis Arraez automatically MVP if he ends with 400. Hitting 62 instead of 61 or 400 instead of 399 should not be the criteria. That said, Judge did have higher WAR but I think because of a lot people don't understand advanced stats, and that WAR doesn't really work with Ohtani (and thus would spark a lot of debate), the voters instead stick to the breaking Maris record argument but the problem with doing so is now you set a very bad precedent what qualifies a player for MVP (i.e. breaking a long standing record).
His 12 hours of sleep is probably No. 1.
I want to see Shohei win both Cy Young AND MVP.
cy young will be tough. he would need to win ton of games and then needs to get ERA down to 2. it can happen, but i doubt it.
Add in the triple crown. That would be insane
McClanahan too damn good to lose the CY this season.
He really should be 9-1 if the team scored some runs lol
aaron poop and co. not helping the Cy Young case, i'm afraid...
MVP🐐
Pitcher Ohtani never faces batter Ohtani. That's the trick.
Goataniiiiiiiiiiiii
Man, he’s gonna look great in Dodger blue.
He hit 29th.
Imagining the Angels without Shohei gives me chills.
Unreal!!!
Ohtani is likely going to have hit 30 homeruns by the All-Star break. That alone is enough to make someone a MVP candidate, but he will also have thrown 100 innings with an ERA of around 3. It’s just baffling.
Shohei is neither a mystery nor abnomal.
It is the result of “the difference in education” that Shohei Ohtani have received since their childhood and school days in Japan.
Ohtani is undeniably a great athlete, but if he had been born and raised in the United States, with the same DNA would not have grown into the Ohtani of today.
He was born and raised in Japan and received a Japanese baseball education from childhood, which is why he is the player "he is today". Not only his physical abilities and skills, but also his attitude toward baseball and competition, his stoicism in daily life, and his gentle and kind behavior as a person based on sportsmanship are the result of his baseball education in Japan from childhood to high school.
He is not a unicorn or monster, but merely one of an honor student of Japanese high school baseball education.
Japanese YAKYU bassball was derived uniquely from American-style baseball and took more than 100 years to achieve.
The fact is that on this same planet, there is another baseball that exists in a different spirit than the US style.
Of course, the roots of baseball are USA, but baseball that was exported to other countries from US and took root there developed in a different way. This would be a fact in this planet.
To understand what Shohei Ohtani's motivation is and the basic idea in him, it is good to look at his goal sheet, which is very famous in Japan.
It is an 81-square goal matrix sheet (mandala sheet) that he created as part of his school education when he was a 16-year-old high school freshman.
You can see what he was aiming for at the age of 16, learning baseball, his future goals, his daily life goals, and what he chose as the keywords to achieve his ultimate goal.
Of course, this is a story from his childhood when he was only 16 years old, so it is different from what he is doing now, but it clearly shows what he was aiming for, what he practiced, what motivated him, what he wanted to do, and what was related to the hidden part of his life. I recommend you to see it once.
Many people who have seen it will probably be surprised at what they find out.
It is a glimpse of who he is and where he came from. And it is clear that this has led him to where he is today as a major leaguer.
He has worked hard and faithfully implemented the scenario he devised in his mind 12 years ago.
And you can get a taste from this sheet of the real power of Japanese baseball education that allowed this to be created by a high school rookie.
He didn't just happen to achieve his current power in the majors, but that it was a planned action.
He is not playing baseball for money.
He just wants to be the best in baseball one day and master the way of baseball (YAKYUDO) in his own way.
I feel the same spirit as a licensed swordsman in Bushido Japan.
'Remarkable'? Why don't you call it as it is? Historic. They probably wore that word out last year when they kept talking about Judge's 'historic' season ever since he was at 30 HR, a feat that Ohtani had done in 21 before the ASB while also being his team's top staring pitcher. They ignored all of Ohtani's records last year to hype up that fraud and only hype up Ohtani when he's literally THE best hitter in the league. When he was one of the top 3 pitchers and top 10 hitters last year he was treated like trash by MLB media. They'd compare his hitting stats to Judge but wouldn't put his pitching stats on screen. Cowards. If you shit on Ohtani in 22 you shouldn't be allowed to use him for ratings now.
Judge's season was the best offensive season by a non-roided player since Mantle. That's pretty historic, don't you think?
Anybody find it interesting that he signed with New Balance you know Nike,Adidas, Under Armour threw him a bag.
Otani hace q los jugadores Contrarios se exijan más y eso es bueno para la MLB 100%
at some point people are gonna run out of things to say about shohei's greatness
大谷さんのプレーを見てください。
何か説明が必要ですか？
so sad no one watch baseball this is literally history
If he doesnt get league MVP and cy young award this year its rigged. There is no reason why this man shouldn't get both rn
McClanahan is having a better season on the mound unfortunately
@@southsider3542 not anymore. plus he went on IR
And yet Yankee fans think he’s overrated…
You don't need to be biased when choosing true mvp. Those idiots who still believe Aaron are better need to be more objective. Please give Sho the MVP right now
Judge is a better hitter, but the margin he is better at doesn't equal to a top 5 pitcher. While I don't mind Judge winning MVP last year, to think that he is better than Ohtani because he won the award is what makes me think that people are still under appreciating what Ohtani is doing. He may not win MVP every year, just like even MJ or Lebron cant win MVP every year, but Ohtani is by far the best player in our generation and it is not even close, he may very well be the best player of all time when he finishes.
Meanwhile, Ronald Acuna Jr., is just on pace to hit 40 HR and steal 70+ bases. No biggie.
Acuña isn't the right shade for baseball fans. Just like Bonds before him, a majority of baseball fans (who are majority white) do not want to see a darker skinned man succeed in a "white man's" game. Despite Latinos and blacks absolute dominating the game for 30 years
Wow
If ohtani gets the mvp stolen from him again this season is it cause mlb doesn't want an asian guy as the forefront of baseball? him not winning it last year was pure cringe. No player since Babe Ruth has done what he has done. He is the Michael Jordan off baseball period. If my Giants sign him I am buying season tickets. Hes worth 500m contract just give the guy the money. He goes to any decent team they will win a world series. Ohtani def has a chip on his shoulder after his mvp was stolen from him last season. He is making sure this season that nobody doubts his skill set again and putting judge into the shadows of baseball. Its the most dominate player I ever seen. It makes you wonder are you even watching a real human being at this point.
Ohtani's RBI is further sandbagged by being on one of the worst teams in Baseball. If someone could just get on the damn bases before he homers that'd be awesome.
I must confess I'm very jealous and feel threatened as a white American male.
👍🏻if you're with me.
Yeah dude has skills, sharpness, good looks and is and will be the richest MLB player soon. I admire him more than I am jealous of him. He deserves all that he's accomplished. He's great for all of sports.
We had a good run fellas 😂😂
He can't take our women too!
Yall funny af! Lol
@@skateordie3433 Once he learns english he'll break Wilt's record
Judge is better 🥴
that until Judge returns, unfortunately that stupid injury took out the best hitter in MLB
Judge will come back this season, hit 2 more homeruns and be crowned the mvp again
@@phuckfumassters At the beginning of the season he was out for 10 games, he came back and surpassed everyone, when he got injured he was the Leader in HR Slug OPS OPS+, I also tell you that he is the 10th SLug of all time and 1st of all active players
Judge's contract will be one of the worse contract given out. The Yankees knew he was getting older and will be injured. They should have gone all in and waited to get Otani in FA. Judge is just a shitty version of Trout.
@@JohnSmith-nj4zq
you just don't know what you're talking about
@@JohnSmith-nj4zq
If you tell me Stanton's contract, okay.