Shohei Ohtani
The numbers still don't capture what makes Ohtani otherworldly. He's the only player in baseball history to sustain elite two-way production at this level — 280 home runs and a 3.00 ERA across eight seasons isn't just unprecedented, it's athletic fantasy made real.
His 2024 MVP campaign with the Dodgers (.310/54/130, 1.036 OPS) represented his offensive peak, eclipsing even his legendary 2021 breakout. The 54 homers marked a career high, while his OPS+ of 146 showed he was nearly 50% better than the average hitter. Meanwhile, his career 121 ERA+ on the mound means he's been consistently above-average as a pitcher too.
At 32, Ohtani has redefined what's possible in modern baseball. Four MVPs in five eligible seasons tells the story — when healthy, he's not just the best player in the game, he's two of them.
| Date | IP | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 1 | — |
| Jun 24 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 0 | W |
| Jun 17 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 | W |
| Jun 10 | 6.667 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 | — |
| Jun 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | W |
| May 27 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 0 | W |
| May 20 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | W |
| May 13 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 | W |
| May 5 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | L |
| Apr 28 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 0 | L |
Career · Hitting
9 seasons| Year | Team | G | AB | HR | RBI | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | — | 114 | 326 | 22 | 61 | — | — | — |
| 2019 | — | 106 | 384 | 18 | 62 | — | — | — |
| 2020 | — | 46 | 153 | 7 | 24 | — | — | — |
| 2021 | — | 158 | 537 | 46 | 100 | — | — | — |
| 2022 | — | 157 | 586 | 34 | 95 | — | — | — |
| 2023 | — | 135 | 497 | 44 | 95 | — | 1.066 | — |
| 2024 | — | 159 | 636 | 54 | 130 | — | 1.036 | — |
| 2025 | — | 158 | 611 | 55 | 102 | — | 1.014 | — |
| 2026 | — | 94 | 344 | 22 | 60 | — | — | — |
| Career | 1127 | 4074 | 302 | 729 | — | — | — | |
Career · Pitching
7 seasons| Year | Team | G | IP | W | L | ERA | ERA+ | SO | WHIP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | — | 10 | 51.2 | 4 | 2 | 3.31 | — | 63 | 1.16 |
| 2020 | — | 2 | 1.2 | 0 | 1 | 37.80 | — | 3 | 6.60 |
| 2021 | — | 23 | 130.1 | 9 | 2 | 3.18 | — | 156 | 1.09 |
| 2022 | — | 28 | 166.0 | 15 | 9 | 2.33 | — | 219 | 1.01 |
| 2023 | — | 23 | 132.0 | 10 | 5 | 3.14 | — | 167 | 1.06 |
| 2025 | — | 14 | 47.0 | 1 | 1 | 2.87 | — | 62 | 1.04 |
| 2026 | — | 14 | 85.2 | 8 | 2 | 1.79 | — | 95 | 0.95 |
| Career | 114 | 612.7 | 47 | 22 | — | — | 765 | — | |
Every ball this hitter has put in play — how hard it left the bat, and at what angle. The red field behind the dots shows how much damage that kind of contact does, league-wide: the darker the red, the better things go for the hitter.
The field — league-average xwOBA (what a batted ball is typically worth: 0.0 is a sure out, ~2.0 a sure home run) for every exit-velocity × launch-angle combination, measured from 1.3 million regular-season balls in play since 2015. The dark ridge — balls hit 105+ mph at 25–30° — is the barrel zone, where contact becomes near-automatic extra bases.
The dots — this hitter’s career regular-season balls in play, grouped to a fine grid; a bigger dot means more batted balls at that exact combination. Dots piled onto the red ridge are damage; dots low on the pale field are weak or mishit contact. Spring training and the postseason are excluded.
Each pitch type this pitcher throws regularly, placed by how the ball moves — sideways break across, rise or drop down the side. Each dotted ring holds about the middle 85% of the league’s pitches of that type, so a cluster sitting outside its ring is movement most pitchers don’t have.
The dots — a sample of this pitcher’s regular-season pitches, placed by movement: left–right is horizontal break, up–down is induced vertical break (what the pitch does beyond gravity). The view is handedness-neutral — positive break is toward the pitcher’s arm side for lefties and righties alike, so every sinker runs right and every sweeper breaks left, whoever throws it.
The dotted rings — about the middle 85% of where each pitch type lands league-wide (a 2-standard-deviation spread), measured from 7.5 million regular-season pitches since 2015. A cluster sitting well outside its ring is movement most of the league doesn’t get. Spring training and the postseason are excluded.
Matchups, projections, comps — grounded in Lahman, Retrosheet, and Statcast.