Shohei Ohtani’s Dual Impact on Dodgers: Pitching or Batting?
Shohei Ohtani's dual role as a pitcher and hitter will be the ultimate key in the Dodgers' quest for the first three-peat since the Yankees from 1998-2000.
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I want to go to the Dodgers here with Shohei Ohtani.
Obviously, his knee swelled up a little bit, so we're not gonna get a chance to see him in the All-Star Game.
Moving forward, in your opinion, the Dodgers, is he gonna be more beneficial to the Dodgers on the hill or in the batter's box?
100% in the batter's box.
You know, we, we've seen this Dodgers And, and ultimately, you know, we're gonna see what this team looks like post trade deadline because the Dodgers, every single trade deadline, are one of those aggressive grabbers.
And right now with, with Glasnow, with Blake Snell on the IL, it's another year of kind of the same old, same old when you're talking about attrition at the pitching position.
You know, I, I, I feel like they're gonna go out there and acquire pitching.
So right now, as it currently stands, I think he- his actually ultimate value is, hey, if you can throw him out there in game one as a pitcher, yeah, you want him to go out there and shut down the lineup for six or seven innings post tread dead- tr- post trade deadline.
I don't necessarily think they're gonna go out there and acquire a lot of bats.
I think they're gonna go out there and acquire a lot of pitching.
And so his bat is ultimately what's gonna win this team the World Series.
So it's kind of an evolving thing.
162-plus games, and you're talking about adding in the playoffs.
That, that's baseball in a nutshell.
But yeah, right now as it currently stands, pitching is his most valuable asset to the team.
Down the line, I would say it's probably gonna be hitting.
