Ohtani edition
Aug 9 2022
This is a big edition of the Arsenal Report, as it has been incredibly tempting at various times over roughly the last season and a half to write about Shohei Ohtani (DH/SP, LAA), arguably the biggest star in the game and the cover athlete of the 2022 Baseball Forecaster. We put it off, however, until there were arsenal changes big enough to justify a full article dedicated to him. That time has arrived, as has the best pitching version of Ohtani we have seen to date.
Cy Ohtani
When Ohtani first came to the United States in spring training for the Angels in 2018 the reports on his hitting were not good, with one anonymous scout in an article written by Jeff Passan going as far as calling him “basically like a high school hitter.” That...
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