The MLB Tonight panel dove into Shohei Ohtani's impact on both sides of the ball, as he helped Team Japan win their third-ever World Baseball Classic title.
The Japanese coach said he couldn't sleep after winning the WBC 2023 championship but after getting off the plane he was still thinking about how they could improve for the next WBC. Those guys really live and breathe baseball. It's not only about winning all time but loving the game.
As it should be. Playing for a club team that just pays you vs playing for your own country with fellow teammates who has the same blood is on a different level of pride and honor.
I don't know much about baseball. But I know Ohtani. I almost never watch baseball. But I often watch Ohtani. I don't know the greatness of Baseball. But I know Ohtani's greatness somehow.
They are so enthusiastic and awe-struck because they know from experience what Ohtani is doing is beyond what anyone else has done or can do. Hey, Ohtani still has room to improve, which is amazing in itself. He knows that, and he has said in the past that he wants to show what he's capable of--that's something beyond what we've already seen. Hard to comprehend. But as an Ohtani fan, I can tell you my appreciation can't get much greater than it is.
Top 5 pitcher and batter. Even Babe Ruth didn't do it this good for this long. IMO Shohei is the GOAT simply because there has never been anyone doing this before.
Shohei Ohtani is the living, breathing Baseball unicorn that no one ever even imagined could ever exist and yet we're actually living in that time watching him, in his prime. Sometime in the future the statement: "Ruth, Mays, Aaron, Young, Martínez, Clemens, Mantle, DiMaggio, Bonds, Griffey Jr, etc. were all pretty good too..." and THAT statement won't be insane but simply asserted with a head nod and a "Yep, they were."
The Sho was incredible. WBC won!! it brought more non-fans audience & viewers to start liking baseball. I, myself wasn't a fan of baseball until i saw the uniqueness of Ohtani playing two-way in a high level. I mean he is from another planet. An Historic player
First Ichiro. Now Shohei. (As in creating a legend in this tournament) Shows how much love for the game Japan has. Showed class too in a sense that they tipped their hats to the US team. This is the sportsmanship the sport needs. (We do not need rude stuff like planting their flag on the mound anymore)
2 years after Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig (among others) played their famous exhibition tour in Japan, a new professional league was born in that country. The seeds for Ohtani's emergence as a baseball phenom in MLB were planted all those years ago. One of the best things about this sport is how a full century+ of history is still alive through the players that inherit and carry on the game
I think that the WBC will grow so much in importance, that one day club owners can't deny a hight pay player to participate in the tournament if he is chosen to be part of a team. It will be more up to future tv contract with MLB organizers and I personally have the feeling that it will get to that point.
I don't understand why he didn't win the mvp 2022. Oh wait, they don't want him to win 2yrs in row. Another thing no one has ever done. This guy has fans all over and bringing ppl back to baseball. I haven't paid any attention to baseball until last yr becuz of him
Carlos Peña is one of the best at the network. His takes are always on point. I remember watching him hit bombs back in the day for my Tigers. He was my favorite during those lowly times lol Peavy has really come along too.
Solo imagínate si OHTANI fuera estadounidense y se llamara Oswhor y todos los logros que tiene los consiguiera en USA para USA sería una verdadera locura y ejemplo para todo EEUU solo imagínenlo
I don't know if Google Translate's bugging out, but Oswhor as an English surname really reminds me of the Japanese baseball game where they had to invent American sounding names and it had names like Sleve McDichael and Bob Dugnutt in it.
This WBC victory was a historic day in which the Japanese "YAKYU" Baseball won over the American-style “Baseball”. Japanese YAKYU 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. The reason “why Japanese baseball is strong in international tournaments" is not because they have strong members and excellent coaches. It is because they are “not players who grew up learning baseball in the United States". They were “educated in Japan's unique system of baseball education” when they were in high school. Americans don’t realize the importance of "the unique baseball education system" of Japanese baseball. 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 the physical aspect, but also the way he thinks about baseball, his stoicism, and his gentle behavior are the result of his baseball education from his childhood to high school in Japan. and it is Japan's unique baseball education that produced "the monster" Otani. He is not a unicorn, but merely an honor student of Japanese high school baseball education.
Why is no one talking about how team USA manager did not bunt Mookie Betts with jo outs and a runner on first. We just needed to tie the game, did he think that any team could string 3 or 4 hits in a row against Ohtani? Manager could have forced a different outcome.
Ohtani decided to bunt by His Own Will and Thought! The Japanese WBC manager and coaches DIDN'T Ask Shohei to bunt at all and they were as surprised as the audience, TV viewers, and the opponent Italian team! Shohei, with extremely high baseball IQ, saw the infield shift and the wide open spaces at third base. That's why he chose to bunt because the successful rate of the bunt is far higher than regular hit. Shohei was safe at the first base and he also successfully sent the other runner to 3rd base. Besides, Shohei has an extreme high successful rate for bunting in MLB (check Shohei's CZcams VTR clips)and he always practices bunting at batting practices even in every batting practice before every WBC game(2023).
peavy does the ohtani also. he does baseball analysis and then he goes on the road to review pizza joints. busy guy. one bite, everyone knows the rules!
There’s no one closest in soccer, Ohtani is beyond Messi and Ronaldo. There’s nobody on earth who rivals Ohtani and probably will never see anyone like this.
Soccer is not a sport where you can play multiple roles at the same time. But may be in a fantasy world, you could imagine someone like Shohei spending half a season as a CB at Ramos/ Varane/ VVD level protecting the back line, commanding defense and conceding few goals, then immediately in the next half, without rest, play as an elite striker scoring goals at the rate of Ronaldo/ Messi.
More closer to 50 mil/year and 500-600 mil contract. Only way it's going be less if he decides he wants to take less to help the team he signs with stays competitive.
Trout and Ohtani had a beautiful successful Double Steals after this season started and then Trout reached home with walk off at a wild pitching ( though Trout got broken finger at an AB and couldn't play now till almost end of the season).😢
@@slleung8979 he's missed 537 games over his career which is not good what so ever. You have to put him right there with degrom. When he's on the field it's lights out but you gotta be on the field to make it count first of all and he just can't stay on. Thats the top reason degrom isn't the best pitcher and the top reason trout is not the best player anymore
@@adammiller8597 Last season, Trout missed some of the season but he came back to finish with 40HR even he was not qualified as a hitter at bats. This season, before he got injured, Trout was the 2nd best batter on HR, runs, and OBP in Angels. Compared to Rendon(who always hurt himself in very strange occasions that didn't relate to team plays or defense), Trout is still Angels' top player other than Shohei in 2022 and 2023 (except 2021). Check Trout's stat, Angels and MLB seasonal ranking before you criticized Trout. By the way, I am Shohei's fan but not Trout's fan. Yet I did check on Shohei's teammates performances regularly and that's why I know Trout still did his work well. Even though Trout has all kinds of physical problems in last 3 seasons, Trout was still doing his best when he was healthy. Of course, he might pass his prime now but Trout was still the strongest supporter for Shohei when he was healthy.
@@slleung8979 100% agreed. I'm not hating on him im just saying facts. The dude is a beast when he's playing but every season you can expect him to get hurt at least once or twice a season and that just doesn't make you the greatest. I'm still in on Shohei tho lol
Verlander has the best fastball. it's not the fastest, but it's the best. Ohtani has the best splitter - and if he used the riding two-seamer, he'd have even more. the change-up is a non-starter for Ohtani - he's too used to over-powering his opponents with velocity.... i do wish Ohtani would focus more on out-smarting his opponents.... you don't get to stay young and strong forever, unless yhou're Nolan Ryan.
Otani and Trout bring WBC to another level.
Trout didn't. Had it not been Trea's grandslam, the USA team wouldn't have been at the championship game.
The Japanese coach said he couldn't sleep after winning the WBC 2023 championship but after getting off the plane he was still thinking about how they could improve for the next WBC. Those guys really live and breathe baseball. It's not only about winning all time but loving the game.
WBC is the greatest baseball competition tbh
Ohtani is the best athlete in the all of major sports right now! He deserves all that money coming his way next year
Look at his uniform. Has there ever been a closer with dirty uniforms? It's just cool.
Haha, never thought about. Ya he probably set another record for dirtiest uniform for a closer.
Yo best comment ever
😂
I’m still shocked how the WBC blew up the way it did. It’s now gone global
As it should be. Playing for a club team that just pays you vs playing for your own country with fellow teammates who has the same blood is on a different level of pride and honor.
@@vamosnippon
Absolutely nothing will ever beat that. 2026 is gonna be 🔥
@@vamosnippon tell that to Aaron Judge
@@fernandocasale6934 😂
I mean, I would hope a tournament with the word "World" in its name is global
I don't know much about baseball. But I know Ohtani.
I almost never watch baseball. But I often watch Ohtani.
I don't know the greatness of Baseball. But I know Ohtani's greatness somehow.
BEST WBC EVER ❕
Look how excited these guys are. They are knowledgeable enough to appreciate Ohtani a lot more than we average folks are.
They are so enthusiastic and awe-struck because they know from experience what Ohtani is doing is beyond what anyone else has done or can do. Hey, Ohtani still has room to improve, which is amazing in itself. He knows that, and he has said in the past that he wants to show what he's capable of--that's something beyond what we've already seen. Hard to comprehend. But as an Ohtani fan, I can tell you my appreciation can't get much greater than it is.
You guys missed the perfect bunt Shohei did
Was that in VS USA?
@@Jews_C0ntr0l_daa__worldd I think it was vs Mexico
vs Italy actually in quarter final
That was a perfect slider. Insane to think of the confidence to throw that on a full count. He's such a badass
Top 5 pitcher and batter. Even Babe Ruth didn't do it this good for this long. IMO Shohei is the GOAT simply because there has never been anyone doing this before.
Never watch baseball but this guy peeked my interest in the sports
Shohei Ohtani is an amazing mutant born in the world of baseball.
It's a rumor that Shohei's contract value would rise upto 700million bucks 10 yrs.
Shohei Ohtani is the living, breathing Baseball unicorn that no one ever even imagined could ever exist and yet we're actually living in that time watching him, in his prime. Sometime in the future the statement: "Ruth, Mays, Aaron, Young, Martínez, Clemens, Mantle, DiMaggio, Bonds, Griffey Jr, etc. were all pretty good too..." and THAT statement won't be insane but simply asserted with a head nod and a "Yep, they were."
The Sho was incredible. WBC won!! it brought more non-fans audience & viewers to start liking baseball. I, myself wasn't a fan of baseball until i saw the uniqueness of Ohtani playing two-way in a high level. I mean he is from another planet. An Historic player
WBC and Angels won
@@londzale3163
However Angels won’t win.
I’m not a baseball fan, but the WBC push me to watch more baseball games. I watch more NFL games.
First Ichiro. Now Shohei. (As in creating a legend in this tournament)
Shows how much love for the game Japan has.
Showed class too in a sense that they tipped their hats to the US team.
This is the sportsmanship the sport needs. (We do not need rude stuff like planting their flag on the mound anymore)
Godzilla no joke either.
South Korea has been irrelevant to baseball for over a decade now. They really have no class for planting their flag on the mound.
Please do not forget Nomo.
@@tc9499 Haven't forgot about him either but talking about the tournament. Thanks for the reply though.
@@mitzo Haven't forgot about him either but talking about the tournament. Thanks for the reply though.
He’s so welled prepared that he makes it look effortless
2 years after Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig (among others) played their famous exhibition tour in Japan, a new professional league was born in that country. The seeds for Ohtani's emergence as a baseball phenom in MLB were planted all those years ago. One of the best things about this sport is how a full century+ of history is still alive through the players that inherit and carry on the game
Eiji Sawamura = grade A badass pitcher
I bet Tungsten Arm O'Doyle played in that tour
真的是外星人下來打棒球，百年難得一見天才選手。
ohtani❤ Amazing🎉
I think that the WBC will grow so much in importance, that one day club owners can't deny a hight pay player to participate in the tournament if he is chosen to be part of a team. It will be more up to future tv contract with MLB organizers and I personally have the feeling that it will get to that point.
I don't understand why he didn't win the mvp 2022. Oh wait, they don't want him to win 2yrs in row. Another thing no one has ever done. This guy has fans all over and bringing ppl back to baseball. I haven't paid any attention to baseball until last yr becuz of him
Thank god WBC blew up big time that we might just see more stars on the next one.
What a time to be alive..
Ohtanii🎉
The greatest talent ever
I havent seen an impressive an athlete since Bo Jackson!
ほんとバッターとして最高 ピッチャーとしても最高
こんにちは、私は翻訳機を使用しています。もし、私の言うことが分かりにくかったら、申し訳ありません。
大谷選手に関する興味深い指標を紹介します：
MLB選手の中で、大谷選手はランナーがいるときに最も良いプレーをします。
ランナーがいる状態で投げるのであれば、彼はベストです。
ランナーがいる状態でバッティングをすれば、彼はベストだ。
重要な場面では、大谷がプレートの後ろかマウンドにいることを望むものだ。
Even as someone who knows next to nothing about baseball I still am amazed hearing the stats, even if I only barely understand some of them.
Carlos Peña is one of the best at the network. His takes are always on point. I remember watching him hit bombs back in the day for my Tigers. He was my favorite during those lowly times lol Peavy has really come along too.
WITNESS GREATNESS!
Cant get enough 😮😊
日本ではあの監督のチームで外野もやってたぞ😂
Goatani.
Wow ❤it😮
Maybe because he is two way he can do so well, because he knows what the opponent is doing.
I like Peavy as an analyst
Solo imagínate si OHTANI fuera estadounidense y se llamara Oswhor y todos los logros que tiene los consiguiera en USA para USA sería una verdadera locura y ejemplo para todo EEUU solo imagínenlo
I don't know if Google Translate's bugging out, but Oswhor as an English surname really reminds me of the Japanese baseball game where they had to invent American sounding names and it had names like Sleve McDichael and Bob Dugnutt in it.
This WBC victory was a historic day in which the Japanese "YAKYU" Baseball won over the American-style “Baseball”.
Japanese YAKYU 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.
The reason “why Japanese baseball is strong in international tournaments" is not because they have strong members and excellent coaches.
It is because they are “not players who grew up learning baseball in the United States".
They were “educated in Japan's unique system of baseball education” when they were in high school.
Americans don’t realize the importance of "the unique baseball education system" of Japanese baseball.
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 the physical aspect, but also the way he thinks about baseball, his stoicism, and his gentle behavior are the result of
his baseball education from his childhood to high school in Japan. and it is Japan's unique baseball education that produced
"the monster" Otani.
He is not a unicorn, but merely an honor student of Japanese high school baseball education.
Why is no one talking about how team USA manager did not bunt Mookie Betts with jo outs and a runner on first. We just needed to tie the game, did he think that any team could string 3 or 4 hits in a row against Ohtani? Manager could have forced a different outcome.
Ohtani decided to bunt by His Own Will and Thought! The Japanese WBC manager and coaches DIDN'T Ask Shohei to bunt at all and they were as surprised as the audience, TV viewers, and the opponent Italian team! Shohei, with extremely high baseball IQ, saw the infield shift and the wide open spaces at third base. That's why he chose to bunt because the successful rate of the bunt is far higher than regular hit. Shohei was safe at the first base and he also successfully sent the other runner to 3rd base. Besides, Shohei has an extreme high successful rate for bunting in MLB (check Shohei's CZcams VTR clips)and he always practices bunting at batting practices even in every batting practice before every WBC game(2023).
If Ohtani was a Hockey player, he would be Gretzky on the first line and then becomes Patrick Roy in net when his line takes a rest.
His demeanor was Mariano Rivera
On set Home plate needs to be centered
peavy does the ohtani also. he does baseball analysis and then he goes on the road to review pizza joints. busy guy. one bite, everyone knows the rules!
Could someone please mention the closest guy to Ohtani in soccer terms?
A top scorer and a top goalie as the same person? There's no such thing. 😅
There’s no one closest in soccer, Ohtani is beyond Messi and Ronaldo. There’s nobody on earth who rivals Ohtani and probably will never see anyone like this.
Soccer is not a sport where you can play multiple roles at the same time. But may be in a fantasy world, you could imagine someone like Shohei spending half a season as a CB at Ramos/ Varane/ VVD level protecting the back line, commanding defense and conceding few goals, then immediately in the next half, without rest, play as an elite striker scoring goals at the rate of Ronaldo/ Messi.
Beckenbauer, but still not even close. Maybe quadruple the goals
@@vamosnipponow bout Micheal Jordan for basketball? A unstoppable scorer, and a amazing defender.
if you pitched inside the batter box it’s over🥹🤣 he ate that sht up
This is funny to watch now because Ohtani got way better as a pitcher.
Japan loves Baseball more that USA. Result shows.
I'm pretty sure I enjoyed this more than the last world series. heheh (** bracing for some angry comments **) LOL
Imagine in playoffs and WS? He wasting time with the LA Angels he needs to go to another team ASP
Ohtani to the Mets! You heard it here first!
did he?
Just realized he throws righted handed but bats left handed. Maybe that’s his secrete
≪🌏⚾🎉
If Angels don’t pull in together and prove they can go to the playoffs, Othani needs to go to a different team.
Can someone describe Ohtani in American football terms?
Imagine if pat mahomes was an all pro linebacker on top of his qb duty
@@samurai_8917 great description hahah
Imagine if Mahomes also made 60 yd field goals
Ray lewis and pat mahomes, in the same body.
Pat Mahomes but also plays MLB.
i always worry about an injury … Sho is going to make 35m/yr
Edit: 35m after taxes 😅
still wbc is the greatest moment of his life
More like $50M
More closer to 50 mil/year and 500-600 mil contract. Only way it's going be less if he decides he wants to take less to help the team he signs with stays competitive.
@@sinhnguyen8135 NO. He got 700Mil contract.
Love watching baseball savants gushing over Ohtani.
大谷だけじゃ勝てないわな
Trout is not the best player in the game anymore!!! He doesn't even steal anymore for one thing
Trout and Ohtani had a beautiful successful Double Steals after this season started and then Trout reached home with walk off at a wild pitching ( though Trout got broken finger at an AB and couldn't play now till almost end of the season).😢
@@slleung8979 that's the unfortunate thing about him hes always hurt just about every year
@@slleung8979 he's missed 537 games over his career which is not good what so ever. You have to put him right there with degrom. When he's on the field it's lights out but you gotta be on the field to make it count first of all and he just can't stay on. Thats the top reason degrom isn't the best pitcher and the top reason trout is not the best player anymore
@@adammiller8597 Last season, Trout missed some of the season but he came back to finish with 40HR even he was not qualified as a hitter at bats. This season, before he got injured, Trout was the 2nd best batter on HR, runs, and OBP in Angels. Compared to Rendon(who always hurt himself in very strange occasions that didn't relate to team plays or defense), Trout is still Angels' top player other than Shohei in 2022 and 2023 (except 2021). Check Trout's stat, Angels and MLB seasonal ranking before you criticized Trout. By the way, I am Shohei's fan but not Trout's fan. Yet I did check on Shohei's teammates performances regularly and that's why I know Trout still did his work well. Even though Trout has all kinds of physical problems in last 3 seasons, Trout was still doing his best when he was healthy. Of course, he might pass his prime now but Trout was still the strongest supporter for Shohei when he was healthy.
@@slleung8979 100% agreed. I'm not hating on him im just saying facts. The dude is a beast when he's playing but every season you can expect him to get hurt at least once or twice a season and that just doesn't make you the greatest. I'm still in on Shohei tho lol
Verlander has the best fastball. it's not the fastest, but it's the best. Ohtani has the best splitter - and if he used the riding two-seamer, he'd have even more. the change-up is a non-starter for Ohtani - he's too used to over-powering his opponents with velocity.... i do wish Ohtani would focus more on out-smarting his opponents.... you don't get to stay young and strong forever, unless yhou're Nolan Ryan.
コブラのCGだけは無駄
But Ohtani hasn't shown he can bunt! He can't be MVP!
Actually he did in the match vsItaly🇮🇹 In the quarter final and it succeeded. Go and check it yourself