A) A Liar
B) A Dummy
C) A Racist
D) All of the above/

The most talented baseball player in the world
The most skilled baseball player in all 863 years of baseballs existence

One of the most likeable athletes in pro sports

The greatest current athlete
Top 10 all time athlete

And we can say this when his career is only in year 6?
He's skilled and has the physical tools.
Don't let him win a title too...

ASIAN!

Fight Me.

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He'd be Jokic with Ben Wallace's defensive range

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https://twitter.com/breakingbatspod/status/1673390788711948293?s=46&t=NaMD4vTOOcOpBwgWLw7fUg

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https://twitter.com/CodifyBaseball/status/1674241892006113280

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https://twitter.com/bssportsbook/status/1673903853979222017?s=46&t=NaMD4vTOOcOpBwgWLw7fUg

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https://twitter.com/CoachSweeneyXC/status/1674061854702727171?s=20

2022 Aaron Judge through 79 games: 64 R, 29 HR, 60 RBI, 6 SB, .281/.360/.612

2022 Gerrit Cole through 16 starts: 93.1 IP, 117 K, 2.99 ERA, 1.01 WHIP

2023 Ohtani: 79 games, 55 R, 28 HR, 64 RBI, 11 SB, .304/.386/.654
…and
16 starts, 95.1 IP, 127 K, 3.02 ERA, 1.04 WHIP

Madness.


https://twitter.com/statmuse/status/1674057393418772480?s=20


StatMuse
@statmuse
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5h
Ohtani has been absolutely insane.

Hitting:
28 HR (1st)
64 RBI (1st)
47 XBH (1st)
.654 SLG (1st)
1.039 OPS (1st)

Pitching:
5.7 H/9 (1st)
12.0 SO/9 (1st in AL)
128 SO (2nd in AL)
1.04 WHIP (7th in AL)
3.02 ERA (9th in AL)

Easy AL MVP frontrunner.

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https://twitter.com/JomboyMedia/status/1672684701817925633

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https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1673906441449783297

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https://twitter.com/_dadler/status/1674076963890233344?s=20

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https://twitter.com/pitchingninja/status/1673881771556077574?s=46&t=NaMD4vTOOcOpBwgWLw7fUg

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https://twitter.com/talkinbaseball_/status/1673874036592443399?s=46&t=NaMD4vTOOcOpBwgWLw7fUg

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https://www.si.com/.amp/extra-mustard/2023/04/11/los-angeles-angels-shohei-ohtani-anthony-rendon-mimic-heated-confrontation-fan

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https://twitter.com/shoheisaveus/status/1674281594687987712?s=20

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They need to stop mentioning babe Ruth too, he ain’t this

http://i.imgur.com/vPqCzVU.jpg

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"Take the surprise out your voice Shaq."-The REAL CP3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H5K-BUMS0

Lol but it’s mostly Yankee fans who were advocating hard for Judge

And people who thinks he gets talked about too much. When imo and the reason for this post is he doesn’t get talked about enough for the unprecedented talent he brings to baseball.

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-The Knicks’ coaching search still includes a lone frontrunner, Kurt Rambis, whose qualifications for the position include a strong relationship with Jackson and a willingness to take the job.

>Lol but it’s mostly Yankee fans who were advocating hard
>for Judge
>
>And people who thinks he gets talked about too much. When imo
>and the reason for this post is he doesn’t get talked about
>enough for the unprecedented talent he brings to baseball.

unfortunately outside of a handful of markets people don't talk about baseball in general, we have an entire season post with barely 200 replies, we have like 10 NBA posts on the first page and during the playoffs some games had 200+ replies. During NFL season we get a fair share of posts, soccer and pro wrestling seem to get more love than baseball

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"Take the surprise out your voice Shaq."-The REAL CP3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H5K-BUMS0

-The Knicks’ coaching search still includes a lone frontrunner, Kurt Rambis, whose qualifications for the position include a strong relationship with Jackson and a willingness to take the job.

>
I’ve never been able to say an Asian athlete in a sport I somewhat cared about is undoubtedly the GOAT - and there’s really no clap back so nuts will be out in a respectful way since I want everybody else on board.

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>so nuts will be out in a respectful way

>>
>I’ve never been able to say an Asian athlete in a sport I
>somewhat cared about is undoubtedly the GOAT - and there’s
>really no clap back so nuts will be out in a respectful way
>since I want everybody else on board.

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I wanna go to where the martyrs went
the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...

>>>
>>I’ve never been able to say an Asian athlete in a sport I
>>somewhat cared about is undoubtedly the GOAT - and there’s
>>really no clap back so nuts will be out in a respectful way
>>since I want everybody else on board.
>

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He (Ohtani) better get 60 million per year next year from NY or Texas.

(edit) I have had to pay attention to the O's this year, they are fun again.

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Angels get Tungsten Arm O’Doyle’d

https://twitter.com/matttomic/status/1394498097254965249?s=46&t=NaMD4vTOOcOpBwgWLw7fUg

every time I see an Angels highlight it's like "Mike Trout hit three homes runs and raised his average to .528 while Shohei Ohtani did something that hasn't been done since 'Tungsten Arm' O'Doyle of the 1921 Akron Groomsmen, as the Tigers defeated the Angels 8-3"

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https://twitter.com/brianmlbinsider/status/1674119838342471681?s=46&t=NaMD4vTOOcOpBwgWLw7fUg

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Angels still odooyling.

Last 3 games their starter has given up 5 runs by the third inning

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wishful thinking.



….i’d be shocked if he’s not in dodger blue.

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Rjcc is code for "bitch-ass troll"

DROkayplayer™

>wishful thinking.
>
>
>
>….i’d be shocked if he’s not in dodger blue.
I think the giants are an outside chance too. It’d be too weird to just go across town.

SF is a well run org with lots of pieces

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and triples(!); leads AL in Offensive WAR, 2nd in Runs, 3rd in OBP, 4th in Batting Average, 5th in BB

... and that's just as a hitter!


Pitching: 1st in MLB in Hits/9 IP; 1st in NL in K/9, 2nd in Strikeouts, 5th in WHIP, 5th in xFIP, 5th in Pitching WAR, 8th in ERA


btw, he's only 7 points off the AL batting average lead; if he had just 3 more hits, he'd be leading the AL in all 3 triple crown categories, at the halfway point of the season.


Fuck Babe Ruth - this is real-life Roy Hobbs shit.

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Mar-A-Lago delenda est

From Jayson Stark's mid-season MVP article:


He was on pace through July 3 (as a hitter) to have a 58-homer, 128-RBI, 408-total base, .306/.390/.670/1.060 season. That seems good. Here’s how good: The only dudes in history who ever had that season were Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx and Sammy Sosa.

Now we have Shohei in position to have that season, while moonlighting as his team’s ace. Unreal.

Before that blister snafu Tuesday, he was on pace (as a pitcher) to go 13-6, with a 3.02 ERA, 239 strikeouts, a 12.0 K/9 rate, a .180 opponent average and 11 double-figure strikeout games. Is that ace-like enough for you? It should be, considering the only qualifying starters ever to have that season were Scherzer and Justin Verlander.

And now Ohtani is all set up to join them while leading the league in homers.

He is hitting .300 … and the poor dudes facing him are hitting .189. So let’s play this fun game again. If Ohtani gives up a hit to the next 55 hitters he faces on the mound (which seems unlikely), they still won’t have as good a batting average as he has.



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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

How much do you have to pay the best pitcher and hitter in the world?

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>How much do you have to pay the best pitcher and hitter in
>the world?

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I wanna go to where the martyrs went
the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...

how long can he be expected to keep up this pace?

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"Take the surprise out your voice Shaq."-The REAL CP3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H5K-BUMS0

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

...should offer him $1 billion and just lock him down forecer.

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Checkin' Our Style, Return To Zero:

https://www.mixcloud.com/returntozero/

Game 1, pitches a 1 hit shutout, but goes 0-5
Game 2, 2nd AB hits a 2 run homer opposite field

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>Game 2, 2nd AB hits a 2 run homer opposite field

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http://www.last.fm/user/dagu85

https://twitter.com/PitchingNinja/status/1685322371475886080?s=20

Rob Friedman
@PitchingNinja
Shohei Double Triple Crown Watch 👀

AL Hitting Triple Crown (rank)
HRs - 1st
RBIs- 2nd
AVG - 7th

AL Pitching Triple Crown (rank)
Strikeouts- 3rd
Wins - T6th
ERA - 11th

<--- Me when my head hits the pillow

Walks and OBP continue shooting up.

He only pitched 4 innings scoreless innings last night due to cramping in his pitching hand.
Got pulled from the mound, but stays in as a hitter and hits a HRto give the angels a 3-1 lead going into the 9th

EsteveZ loads the bases and gives up a grand slam for the angels to lose

Lmao

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https://twitter.com/shoheisaveus/status/1687319807329513472?s=20

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"Take the surprise out your voice Shaq."-The REAL CP3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H5K-BUMS0

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Mar-A-Lago delenda est

November 8th, 2005 The greatest night in the history of GD!

https://dodgersnation.com/shohei-ohtani-to-sign-with-toronto-blue-jays-over-los-angeles-dodgers-sources/2023/12/08/


ENjoy Heinz

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...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

I was actually looking forward to watching him on regular people time!

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with LA because Dave Roberts told people that they met with him. Guess he wasn't THAT mad. Damn.

...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

-The Knicks’ coaching search still includes a lone frontrunner, Kurt Rambis, whose qualifications for the position include a strong relationship with Jackson and a willingness to take the job.

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

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...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

were gambles that paid off.

Given what Seager just did, maybe you could argue if it was the best way to go, but they got the guy they wanted.

Super expensive DH for next year, but if he gets back to being a very good pitcher and suddenly 70 million a year doesn’t seem as steep when you’re in effect getting 2 star players.

Mookie, Freeman, and Ohtani back to back to back in the lineup- that’s incredible. 3 of the top MVP candidates on the same team.

Right today, it would cost a team more than $700 million to sign both, say, both Trout and Snell to long term deals.

So… discount?

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>Right today, it would cost a team more than $700 million to
>sign both, say, both Trout and Snell to long term deals.
>
>So… discount?

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"Take the surprise out your voice Shaq."-The REAL CP3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H5K-BUMS0

>>Right today, it would cost a team more than $700 million to
>>sign both, say, both Trout and Snell to long term deals.
>>
>>So… discount?
>

I feel like it was some kind of diminishing returs. If he was able to pitch next year he'd still have gotten 50-150 million more. It wouldnt have gotten "that" much more lol

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According to ESPN’s Jeff Passan, most of the $700 million in Ohtani’s deal is deferred and will be paid out after Ohtani’s 10-year tenure, Bobby Bonilla–style. Those dollars will depreciate due to inflation, which means the present value of the contract is less than $700 million—likely considerably less, though the precise parameters have yet to be reported. Average annual value is what counts for competitive balance tax purposes, but that AAV takes the time value of money into account. So Ohtani’s soft-cap hit won’t be as big as it would have been if no dollars were deferred and calculating his CBT figure was as simple as dividing 700 by 10.

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if everything goes as we think...they are basically adding "Super Bat" this season and "Ace Pitcher" next off-season, except the deal is already done...and in the end, it feels like, for less than signing them individually in consecutive off-seasons.

...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

and LA has the resources to always build a contending team around him, unlike other destinations (sadly enough)

but I just have a bad feeling about this deal

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>but I just have a bad feeling about this deal

This is a great deal for the Dodgers and Ohtani but a terrible deal for baseball in general.

this aint right.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39092632/shohei-ohtani-defer-680m-deal-dodgers-sources

will only make $2 mill per season with the Dodgers. He makes $45 mill in endorsements.

it was his idea.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

Deferrments are way more common in MLB than I think most of us realize. I remember a couple years ago learning that the Reds were still paying out Griffey's contract during a Bonilla Day post; BR just did a new run down and his number was almost $60m in delayed payments. His last year on the Reds' payroll is actually next year.


Scherzer defered $105m with the Nationals.


I think unless the players' union decides that these huge names signing contracts that are worth way, way less than they sound at the time - since the money doesn't appreciate over time, so Griffey's $5m this year are in year 2000 dollars, rather than the $8m it'd be worth today - effectively devalues their worth, this isn't that big a deal.


Especially when it's always the players who are asking for these kinds of deals to start.


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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

And he hasn't played in what 3 years?

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

-The Knicks’ coaching search still includes a lone frontrunner, Kurt Rambis, whose qualifications for the position include a strong relationship with Jackson and a willingness to take the job.