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Where were you when Shohei Othani saved baseball?
i was sat at home eating sunflower seeds when manfred ring
“baseball is save”
“yes”
Eating seeds as a past time activity. The toxicity of
our citybaseball.You? What do you own the world?
How do you own disorder?! Disorder!!
on the toilet scrolling through MLB/FOX SPORTS twitter
Othani is saving baseball while at the same time Manfred is destroying it.
God he's so handsome and good at baseball
And he’s so fucking jacked. His biceps when he was holding the trophy looked like watermelons.
He's fucking built too. Thick and man made. You can tell he's sculpted because you can see it thru the uni. His fucking vice grip thighs. Suffocating thighs. Rock hard thighs. Piping hot thighs. Great arms. Great abs. A stocky chest. Love the progress his body has made throughout his youth and now as a willing eager adult.
This kid's fucking jacked. Thick, dense, built, whatever you wanna call him he's got it. Legs thicker than my chest, and shoulders wider than my wingspan. Making full use of his frame and with the shiny hair and cute smile to top it off. Bonafide stallion.
A modern day Bill Brasky!
Whew you should write romance novels
Its always funny
Ohtani is looking thick, solid, and tight. Can't wait to see more progress pics.
lol wtf
Hangs out with the hottest dudes.
Mike Trout facing Ohtani in the 9th:
“Don’t be intimidated Mike, just imagine him in his underwear… OH NO HES HOT”
Still waiting for the Ohtani ESPN Body Issue spread tbh
Ohtani is the best player in the world.
The best athlete in the world right now, honestly.
Yea. If MLB could control a game as much as NBA/NFL QB could he'd get more credit. Just hard to get that appreciation if you aren't in your sports postseason consistently.
Its hard to quantify or compare 1:1 but imagine if Mahomes was also somehow an all-pro corner lmao. Ohtani's free agency is going to be obscene
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Dude is gonna get like $600M.
To be fair, Josh Allen is both an elite QB and a pretty good edge rusher
An all-pro corner on the chargers who still had the same record they've had the past few years and the comparison would be spot-on
It’s amazing that Mike Trout is one of the 10 best baseball players ever and all we can talk about is his teammate.
And the team they both play on isn't good 😂
Well that teammate could be the best player ever
I mean. its just impossible. there are some positions in sports that just have WAY more control over wins/losses
hockey goalie
quarterback
best player on an nba team
that said, everyone knows what ohtani is doing is INSANE.
It depends on how we're defining "best athlete". If we're saying who contributes most to winning, then yeah baseball players have no shot. If we're saying who's level of skill is most of an anomaly relative to their sport, then maybe Ohtani has a chance. It's kind of a meaningless comparison across sports anyway.
That's one of the things I hate about baseball right now. Two of the best players in the world are basically being held hostage on the fucking ANGELS
Nobody is hostage. Both signed FA contracts. Get the bag and all that, deal with the consequences. Want to argue about compensation, sure. But they CHOSE to play for LAA.
One of them had a chance to leave and didn't. That's partially his own fault for staying in a place that's proven it doesn't know how to win.
Stephen a smith going to say you need to speak English to be that
ESPN with fingers in their ears yelling “LALAALALALALALALALAALALA”
Didn’t he win ESPNs athlete of the year award recently?
Redditors with fingers in their ears yelling “LALAALALALALALALALAALALA”
Yea but did you hear what Lebron had for breakfast? This is why he’s the goat over MJ, and now watch us debate this for the next 4 hours
He ain't no athlete, lady, he's a baseball player.
For me it's between him, McDavid and Mbappe. They're the three best of global sports right now. (NBA is getting better though as the last 4 years have had European MVPs and the next MVP could be from Africa)
Leaving off nba as not a global sport is insane. Nba way more global and popular then nhl and it’s not particularly close
Not gonna disagree with McDavid or Ohtani but give me Haaland over Mbappe tbh. Both are obviously insane but Haaland truly scares me in a way no player ever has
Thats crazy. I'll take that discarded Mbappe lmao
Haaland is really good, but ever? Haaland is not at Messi or Ronaldo levels yet.
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I think one argument against how much stars influence games in baseball is how bad the Angels have been with Ohtani and Trout. If you look at soccer, basketball, hockey, etc any team with two top 10 or top 20 players will have much more success in general.
Yeah someone like McDavid is the best of a generation but Ohtani is literally a best ever
https://ibb.co/rFgY0Ld
Mbappe
only six tool guy in baseball history
Most talented player ever tbh
In terms of talent, yeah it's not close. There's never been a player who has dominated two major positions the way that Ohtani has. We may never see this again in our lifetime
It would be pretty rad if Ohtani paved the way for more two-way players to be allowed to stay two-way all the way to MLB but even if it did become somewhat commonplace, the concept of someone being this fucking good at both sides is just unfathomable.
Tbh, I don’t see how it’s even possible. I really hope we see this level of talent again, but it’s almost an impossibility. The amount of kids playing baseball who make it to the majors is already ridiculously low, then to be a top 5 in the whole world at that position is THAT much harder, and to have that talent at 2 key positions? I think we’d have an easier chance of landing a rover on Pluto lol
There’s no debate.
He may be the greatest player the MLB has ever seen
Still think it's silly he didn't win MVP
I don’t see how you could really argue that he isn’t
It's the rings argument (which I think is bullshit) but that's the argument.
I think that is maybe fair if you are talking about legacy or something.
If you are just talking straight baseball ability it is hard to have an argument for anyone else. It took a historic season from Judge to beat him out for MVP and I’d bet money on him being the MVP in whatever league he plays in for a while barring any injuries or historic seasons
baseball is the one sport where stats outweigh rings when it comes to GOAT discussions. lack of rings didn't diminish Ted Williams or Tony Gwynn's legacies. right now with ohtani the issue is longevity. As long as he puts together 9 or 10 more seasons like he has he will safely be considered an all time great and I have no reason to doubt that hes capable of that.
And honestly, it's not particularly close. I'm happy Judge has an MVP, because Ohtani's probably gonna win it for the next 3 years.
It’s crazy CC said ohtani is the greatest player of all time his rookie year and I thought he was being ridiculous. Nah, CC might be right
30 years*
*Of All-Time
Best player in the world of all time
Best player in the world of all time of Anaheim
Best player in the world of all time of Anaheim of Orange County of almost LA County
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Best time of all world
In Seattle kraken history
What a hot take
He is that one kid on your high school team who you know is gonna get drafted one day that just owns both sides of the plate..only its Ohtani playing in the top league in the world.
The man is engineered to play baseball
As long as Japan won, was there any doubt for another player for MVP?
Yoshida has a good case. Especially since I’m sure voters love the RBIs.
No way. Shohei had a better SLG and OBP.
Oh yea, he was a top five pitcher in the competition as well.
I thought Yoshida was getting it
Nah, if usa did Trea for sure though
I'll argue Trea should have won it anyway. USA doesn't get there without him.
No way Japan gets there without Ohtani either though, plus they won
Could have given it to Aaron Judge instead again.
With another ROTY going to Ben Simmons
"It hasn't been that long since he hit 62, he deserves it"