Shohei Ohtani continues to DOMINATE! Wins AL Player of the Month for June! | 大谷翔平ハイライト 

Yet on a bad team.

​@@red3hereUnfortunate isn't it

@@red3here i mean he is definitely goning to a top team after this season so yeah for now it doesnt matter

@@kkb8510mostly likely.

Japanese Jesus!

Shohei Ohtani is now "Babe Who?"

hope he won't end up a glimpse. He maybe too good to last..

@@singlefather01 I hope not. He created his life goal plan at the age of 16, and it was impressive and remarkable that he has achieved almost all of them, i.e. debut in the MLB, for one. In his plan, he targets the body preparation to be completed by the age of 32 (or 30? I forgot). So he is still in his body-building phase. In fact, he is still training himself in his way, such as the 200kg barrel lifing 2 hours on a daily basis. And his sholders and hip joints are extremely flexible, his father noticed it and that's how he was able to take advantage of the flexibility and strength of his unique body.

Babe Ruth is extremely overrated. One of the most overrated player ever

@@justvibing2497I’m a yankee fan but finally someone realizes it

"Mmmm that Japanese BBQ is good" @ 6:38

Yes HE is! But… They also lost today.

they are not talking about Sandy Koufax's last 4 seasons, are they?

​@@TERoss-jk9nyit's a team sport bruh. We're talking about an outstanding individual!!!! Not a mediocre team.

Pancake ahh lil boa

Pardon my ignorance ... what's "throws cheds" ?

And it’s not even close tbh

Babe Ruth?

@@Hadvarr Babe was amazing, the first to do it, but IMO the quality and level of skill in todays game is far greater than anything Ruth faced. However, there is something to be said about a guy who was hitting more HRs than entire teams like Babe did, but you could also look at that as a lower level of skill in that era. Makes it easier to be a pitcher too if teams arent hitting like they do in todays game.

How bad would a team have to be in todays game to have less team homeruns than the league leader in HRs?

@@codyj9983 -- Keep in mind that Babe Ruth has more home runs per at bat than any player in history, except Mark McGwire and Ruth hit very long home runs. I mean, without steroids he was hitting some of the longest in history. And he hit for a high average. In comparison to the players of his time he was well ahead of everyone else. You also have to factor in medicine, equipment and training techniques. Shohei has already undergone surgery to his elbow and knee. Tommy John surgery wasn't available in Babe Ruth's day. These are all factors that allow players today to play longer and better. .o

You should read the life plan written by him after graduating from middle school. Everything is going according to his expectations. In fact, he performed better than he expected.

Emm 10 years ago Ohtani just graduated high school and got into pro balls. He might not believe he can do it either 😂

When he was in high school, he also didn't think two-way was possible. 10 years ago, in a professional team, only he and his manager believed it could be done. This year, the manager won WBC with Ohtani.

@@xuelinli3813but he did set a Japanese high school record by pitching 100mph, and was hitting close to .500 so you never know.

@@alexsakon his goal back in high school was to make the MLB as pitcher.

He swings the bat like his ancestors swings a samurai sword - pure-focus, full power 😤

Whats the point in saying that if the century is only 23 years old lol

😂😂😂😂😂😂

@@victormontoya117you’re not that funny really 😂😂😂😂

all time

​@@chaoht3836 1 MVP + 5.5 years of play = GOAT? 🤨

@@JaredHettlerHe gets MVP and Cy Young votes every season, case closed.

Yes, there have been some good-hitting pitchers. But what Shohei has done, it's like he made the impossible possible. I've never seen a home run leader also be among league leaders in strikeouts as a pitcher.

@@jennifergiacinto8210of course you haven't lol

he is like the anime main character.

Plus he's doing it in an AL team...

You’re probably okay with what happened on December 7, 1941…

@@somecrazyveteranwhat’s relevant here though?

@@Hyunni-op1sd it’s not the matter of what’s relevant it’s the matter of never forgetting what enemy attacked your country. There’s a reason Nissan was called Datsun, because those that remember and lived to see Pearl Harbor didn’t want a car from the country that did Pearl Harbor so to me it’s always relevant. I don’t care if it’s been 80+ years, to me they’re the enemy and anyone from there has no right to play American baseball. Baseball should be played only in the USA and by those born in the USA. Keep baseball American and not tainted by foreigners. Nothing pissed me off more than losing to the Pearl Harbor bombing shithole in the wbc. I wanted to learn to fly a B52 and drop bombs on them myself.

@@somecrazyveteran What's so good about bringing up events you weren't even alive when it happened?

@@iwnkmslmao because it is something that still resonated with me and, if given the opportunity I’d still nuke Japan out of existence.

Before Shohei I only check the boxscores of World Series games, now I check 'em daily just for Ohtani.

That would be insane to see

It is definitely possible. I've been hoping for that, too. That would be one insane two-way feat. Imagine also if it were a perfect game and he hit for the cycle. 😮😮😮😮🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 He came close to the cycle 3 times while on the mound.

Nothing is impossible with him, but he’s a strike out pitcher, so it’ll be hard for that kind of pitcher to go 9 innings. Hitting a cycle as a starter IS going to happen someday.

​@@alexsakonagreed. He's never thrown a single complete game in his 79 starts. I don't see a no no happening.

He has already hit for the cycle last year.

Name a SINGLE player since the inception of the game that was even debatably as good as Shohei.

*EVER

@@jasonc5437 Shohei is doing what Babe Ruth did first. I think that makes Ruth Debatably (which isnt a word) as good as Ohtani. Certainly debatable.

​​​@@jasonc5437lol well Barry Bonds created more runs and offensive production than Ohtani could ever dream of. Which in my eyes overshadows what Ohtani does as a pitcher. He also won 7 MVPs to Ohtani's 1.

​@@codyj9983babe Ruth did not do this first. Ruth did it against a joke of a league: no black players allowed, chain smoking in dugouts, unathletic dudes filling rosters, etc. Ruth also never pitched and hit like this in the same season. You are a casual

Bruh baseball been whack

While I don't think he'll do both in the same game - he's already hit for the cycle and gotten close a few more times and a perfect game is so very very hard to do, everything has to line up just right. But just the fact that neither is out of the realm of possibility for him, the fact that it's even a question to seriously ask, shows how great Ohtani is

WOW

nothing can't compare to Ohtani.😅🔥

MVP! 📣📣📣

you just made acuna look like a bum

crazy

He is Michael Jordan plus Shaq

Eh, more like Wilt Chamberlain. Cracking records left and right, winning MVPs, but still needs the team achievement to be considered the MJ of baseball.

@@Neoctix It's fair to say that he is on that Jordan trajectory tho

@@Neoctix true

He’s out of Jordan’s league.

We saw what happens against the Padres when Shohei has an average or bad game. And now with Trout also injured, I don't think there's any hope for them

@@kingbradley3402 Because Ohtani have no protection in that line up, And Mike Trout isn’t helping Ohtani at all

I got it better then this ! I watch Ronald acuna Jr. every day, now thats a blessing 🙏 ⚾️⚾️⚾️😎

I feel like thats done for leverage. But he’s such a big strong guy that its not necessary.

@@DefiSenpai yeah, it’s for leverage. For me, It took me a long time to get comfortable with it because my timing was always weird. Trying to time lifting your foot when the pitcher throws. My theory is he doesn’t do it so he can just focus on hitting. He turns his front foot slightly before the pitch to generate the same leverage without lifting his front foot, thus eliminating the effort of timing. Just my theory though lol

It's just a simple approach. Everybody's timing and load mechanics are different. Pujols used to go with a no stride load sometimes.

Nope. Ohtani used to have a high leg kick in Japan. That all changed in spring training in 2018. He performed awful initially when he came to the US, so he adapted the no kick stance from Albert Pujols. Rest is history. This is very famous in Japan, that he changed his stance. I guess not so much in the US.

We may have to come up with new ones. Baseball phenom isn’t enough

Yup, it that well known American bias. It's ugly.

Judge hitting 62 is great but I really don't think it beats out what Shohei did even last year. Judge is one guy in right field. He did provide enough for two but Shohei provided enough value for two hitters and almost 2 pitchers. How are the writers not seeing this? They care too much about their old man counting stats or breaking arbitrary home run records. I'm not trying to disrespect Judge or the season he had. He definitely deserves an MVP but I think he deserves 2017 more than he did last years.

Yeah, that is why he wanted to prove they wrong so bad for this year season.

Lol dude. Nobody is taking Ohtani for granted. The reason he only got 2 votes is because Judge literally hit 28 more homeruns than him. 40 more RBIs. Scored 40 more runs. Hit .40 higher batting average. Won the Wilson defensive player of the year. Had a higher WAR. Way higher OPS. And oh yeah, there's the fact that he broke a 56 year old record. They wisely realized that Ohtani's pitching doesn't overcome that overwhelming amount of offense Judge lapped him by.

Same lol