Dear. A what do you look for when Shohei Ohtani is? Yeah. What do you, what things for when he's not a huge fan of? No, honestly, I mean, this Eric Neighs does an amazing job. He's the researcher for the show. 99% of the time. And Al Leiter was going to come on the show today and dua Shohei Ohtani tape, who knows? Wher Al is could be anywhere right now. Scaling Everest. We don't know. So I started to read over these Otani notes and their ridiculous and I truly mean that I'm not even going to focus on his hitting today. So I want everyone who's watching this to think back to a little league baseball, whatever baseball organized baseball you play as a kid at 12 years old. There was a kid that was Schavan before you that through a billion miles an hour and hit every ball in all named that kid in our town for me, it was a Brian Kerch Gessner. Mine was, there was a Kidd named Bam Bam. Bam. Bam, right? His nickname. So think I got a hit off of them though. Ro Flo, think about that and then think about doing that against the greatest a ball players in the world on a nightly basis. Ru saying Shohei is better than bam, bam because I will fight you. We our taking him for granted and I know people like the evolution of man, I got it. Babe Ruth and all those players and I'm not saying he's got to do it for a little bit longer. But what we're witnessing, please, please. It doesn't sense. He is an ace that hit 45 homers. It's crazy what he's doing and I wanna dive intuit and give him love and I want to focus on the pitching because he's gone from arguably like a top 10 pitcher in the game to he's, you can make the argument. He's been the best pitcher in the game recently and the number is supported. S rod first board, pause that last 10 starts. Look at it. MLB ranks. You're gonna sit down today. Bloody merry brunch. 11 a.m. and watch Shohei Ohtani Try and pick apart the Red Sox last 10 starts. E R A A home runs allowed nothing strikeouts, 10th opponent, average nothing opponent O P S 101 pitchers with eight or more complete game. Every other starting pitchers allowed two home runs. Get me the next board. So that's his Then starts. This is since the start of 2022. So this is where he still sands and oh, by the way, he hits 40 homers for you and runs like a Deere. So it's pretty crazy. You look at it E R A here's third strike out percentage on down the line. So put him wherever you want. But he's certainly in the top five in the game right now. Another thing, side angle Slomo is wind up for me. He is a monster when you get close to him. Pause this real quick. You hear a lot of guys on this network talk about perceived velocity. He his average MPH on his fastball, 97 MPH. That's top of the food chain for a lot of guys. But his extension he makes his heater play hotter at 98 miles an hour run this. So not only does he have the stuff but then he's got the athleticism to get out there and even create more, but I want to flashback. Okay because when he broke in 2018 all the way through 2020 won. He was heater slider split. This was his out pitch. Okay. Nasty. You knew it was coming with two strikes, bring up the splitter usage, pause this and bring up the borders splitter usage. So what happens? Right, Tommy John. So this guy's got to try and stay healthy. He is trying to pull off something no one's ever done in the sport offensively and on the mound. So how do I stayed healthy? I was always amazed the guys that through the split finger anybody who's drove the ball into both these fingers right here. Instantly, my elbow starts barking. So I don't understand how guys are able to do that on a consistent basis and he started to ditch that pitch. Ok. In 2018, he was using 8 22.4%. In 2023 7.8% takes stress off my arm. Let me incorporate this nasty sweeper for the last two years that no one can hit. Let's get back into the tape. So let's try and stay healthy. And you've seen this, this pitch is unbelievable. Jesus Aguilar right there. It's not going down, it's almost going sideways across the entire plate. Ramon Laureano a different shapes to it and it was on complete display when the baseball world one on March 21st. This was a little bit pause this real quick. I know Mike Trout, one of the best players of all time. But on March 21st first to have to deal with this stuff is borderline on Fair August 24 1st. Let's get after it. But run this. This is crazy. Run that back. 88 miles an hour whiffle ball, we get you loose. What? Okay. Spit on it. He was taken no matter what. And then here we go. That's 100 middle, middle. That's a run that back. What is that? What is that? Is that a cutter? What is it? It's a cutter at 100 miles an hour. Keep going. 100. You gotta remember March 21st. No ones locked in on the Bucco to and then the sweeper 87. It is crazy what he's been able to do. Pause this real quick because I want to read some of those numbers. It is the sweeping slider for him is the second most runs prevented by a single pitched since the start of 2022. Dillon ceases slider is the only one that prevents Moore runs. Bring up his pitch usage comparisons. Okay. This is a lot to process, simplify it. 2021 these are his percentage is 44% of the time he was throwing you a four seem heater 22% of the time he was throwing you that sweeping slider and let's throw in the splitter at 18%. You can't cover everything. So he was about to three or four pitch guy. Alright, I'm on heater slider. Probably not going to hit a split, gonna layoff it hopefully don't swing and miss with two strikes. Tell me now what the heck your supposed to do. So he throws 98 miles an hour. He's six ft five and he has got 1234567. Weapon's to get you out with Brian mccann always talks about if I have a pitcher on the mound and I can go to any quadrant of the strike zone. The hitter's usually got no chance. I don't know what you cover with explosive stuff from Shohei Ohtani And, oh, by the way, offensively, I'm one of the best in the game. So it's pretty crazy run the run to J Rod at that real quick. It's just too much 93 kind of slider cutter away, shape it off it back. He completely backed up on him. It's the, it's the wip out sharpness of these breaking balls. Hea thinks hes on him, but they're all different moves. That's cutter at 98. Run that back for me real quick. I just want to real slow as soon as it comes out of his hands causing okay. Let go a little bit. Click, click, click right there. Pause. So Julio Rodriguez, that's a hanger to him in his mind. He sees it out and its spinning. He's gotten the red dot Alright. If its high, let it fly, run this. He's going what? It's a ball a way, almost so pleased. People don't take it for granted. It's, it's kind of the stuff of legend right now. What he's doing, you have to face them at Fenway today. Step to the plate. What do you do with your approach? Punching out four time trying to do Toki then a bloody merry after on a Monday. You do, you
