Shohei Ohtani hits 30th homer, completes bullpen session
Everyone was like, "Ooh, Shohei Ohtani deal is terrible for baseball. Dodgers are terrible for baseball. It's not fair. You can't defer that much money" blahblahblah Joke's on you, you couldn't defer that much money unless you were doing a vast, billion-dollar fraud
Razzball82Imagine you're Shohei Ohtani and you're robbed of $40 million by your closest friend, then a few years later your team can't pay you. Bro's going to go back to Japan with a very accurate depiction of the U.S.
Sadly Rutschman12Kinda funny that the two most well known contract deferments were made by owners who were a part of some sort of financial scam
Peter Butler5Context. I think the gift link works www.nytimes.com/athletic/751...
BaseballAndStuff26I feel bad for MLB but this is tremendous content.
Too Big to Fail14Everybody gets a chuckle out of Bobby Bonilla Day - when the Mets have to pay Bonilla $1.2 million every July 1 until 2035 because of a $6 million buyout in 1999. The Mets did that deal because the owners were heavily invested with Bernie Madoff and thought high investment returns were guaranteed
José Hernández Lagunes2"Hey, shush! Dont'cha know that 29 other owners are desperate to follow suit? Are you so callous as to deny 29 billionaires a chance to get with the times and commit fraud? You greedy pig."–Howdy Doody, ESPN
So there’s just nothing anyone can do to ever win MVP again if Shohei Ohtani pitches 1/3 of a season? PCA is the best defensive player in baseball (and probably a historically great defender) and he’s gonna go 35-35 he’s a perfectly viable MVP candidate. It’s not just “Ohtani fatigue”
Chris Towers is In The Dog Days of Summer15I really hate this thing where there has to be one single obvious MVP candidate. Both Ohtani and PCA are perfectly viable MVP choices this season, and there’s a whole month left of the season, you don’t have to say one of them is “the only choice” or whatever.
burn it all down2other basketball players won mvp during jordan's prime, it's fine if PCA wins mvp this year, jfc
Mike Wilner2This is a little disingenuous, no? "If Ohtani pitches 1/3 of a season" should be "if Ohtani pitches half a season at a Cy Young level." 14 starts and 85 innings hasn't been a third of a season's output for a starting pitcher for a very, very long time. And also, he's been phenomenal.
CascadiaCoug2Auto DQ for the Babe Ruth wasn’t real comment
chris #1 nba lover / music critic1sounds like you’re QT’d a guy who Didn’t Watch The Games
Chicken Puppet 🏳️⚧️12Ohtani is the actual case that "most valuable player" doesn't mean "best player"
Curb Your Malthusiasm9PCA should win because I like him more
A K8I also don't think Ohtani fatigue is a thing and PCA should probably win because durability counts in that sorta deal, but I would note that Ohtani's 1/3rd a pitching season has more value than any of Toronto's position players bsky.app/profile/cpto...
brian5why are we asking players who they think should be mvp. we all know how dumb baseball players are
BK?3Of course other people are allowed to win MVP. PCA isn't a person. That's the difference.
Christopher Novak3Thank you for this post because people who seemingly just want auto MVPs are so lame
3+ pitching WAR, 3+ batting WAR, same season Bob Caruthers 1886 Bob Caruthers 1887 Bullet Rogan 1922 Ed Rile 1927 Shohei Ohtani 2021 Shohei Ohtani 2022 Shohei Ohtani 2023 Shohei Ohtani 2026 No, Babe Ruth never did it.
Geoff Buchan2With Rogan and Rile there's a case it was more akin to 5+ or even 6+ WAR each way, as they did 3+ in fewer than 80 games batting, so basically ½ an AL or NL season.
Sports Fact Lover1So to be clear, that means Ohtani is the only NL/AL player to do it. Caruthers was AA, and Rogan and Rile where NeL. Insane. Since 1900, can drop this to 2.5 of each. Dropping to 2.0 includes Ruth x3, Ferrell, Newcombe, and Drysdale.
Matt Gilman1Damn, that Ed Rile season was pretty good.
Los Angeles: sports capital of the world1There was only one Bob Carothers
I watched a Dodger game so now I'm Shohei Ohtani.
