by When Shohei Ohtani signed with the last off -season of Los Angeles Dodgers, it was planned that he was ready to go back on the day of opening 2025. Then it was pushed in May. Now the team is not sure.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts told journalists Thursday during training in the spring that Ohtani had not rejected a mound since February 25 and will only face the strikers when the team returns from his Japan series opened on March 18 and 19, according to Jack Harris from Los Angeles Times.
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Ohtani still plays wrestling, however, and took a good start as a striker with a Home Run during his first training in the spring.
Roberts would have explained the break while the Dodgers wishing the Ohtani Titching program “Play-Play” while he accelerates as a striker before the season. When asked if it would interfere with the conviction of Ohtani that he could pitch in May, Roberts indicated that the calendar was much more indefinite:
“”[We’re] I’m just trying to make a wide moment to come back. We just don’t know. So I think that when it is ready … We will know it. But I don’t want to put expectations on you or Shohei. “”
Ohtani has not launched any kind of game since he underwent surgery to repair a torn UCL at the end of the 2023 season, when he was still with the Los Angeles Angels. His pitching calendar was considerably modified when he torn the Labrum in his left shoulder and not launched in match 2 of the World Series 2024. This injury required another surgical intervention and interfered with its rehabilitation during the offseason.
Discovering Ohtani’s return was always going to be delicate because of his status of one of the most precious players in baseball, even when he is only a striker. Dodgers Director General Brandon Gomes said that rather than having him present in an rehabilitation assignment, like any other launcher, Ohtani will go directly from simulated games to an MLB mound because the team does not want to lose his bat while he plays a minor league games.
We really don’t know when Ohtani will sink again. Dodgers will obviously be as cautious as possible, and they are also in the enviable position of not particularly needing him for the moment.
Even with Ohtani as a full -time DH, the dodgers are still projecting to have one of the best rotations in baseball with Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow, Roki Sasaki and probably Tony Gonsolin or Dustin May. They also have some of the highest dining depths in baseball, they needed in recent seasons due to an unrivaled rider.
Ohtani’s pitching will always be good news for them, of course, while the team plans to switch to a rotation of six men once it returns. He holds an MPM of 3.01 career with a whip of 1.082 and 11.4 stick withdrawals for nine sleeves.
In the meantime, Ohtani has just released one of the most decorated seasons in the history of the MLB, with a World Series ring and a third MVP prize after publishing the first season of 50 Homer and 50-Base of the League. With its delayed money and its intact value as an advertising print compensating for its former record contract of $ 700 million, it already does a lot for Dodgers.
