Los Angeles Dodgers skipper Dave Roberts lately mentioned managing Japanese famous person Shohei Ohtani. Roberts has been managing Ohtani for the reason that two-way participant joined the Dodgers earlier than the 2024 season and went on to make them the World Collection.
In a current episode of The Herd on Fox Sports activities, host Colin Cowherd and Dave Roberts in contrast Shohei Ohtani to legendary athletes reminiscent of Tiger Woods and LeBron James, gamers who not solely lived as much as the hype however exceeded it.
Cowherd then requested Roberts what it is prefer to handle a participant of Ohtani’s caliber. The Dodgers supervisor responded (begins at 0:38):
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“ I feel it is a type of issues that it is an attention-grabbing query. And primary is you attempt to keep out of the best way as a lot as potential and never intervene. That is primary. However I additionally assume that you just acquired to only deal with these guys like everybody else.”
“And I feel that they actually watch intently that you do not attempt to deal with them any in another way, however there’s distinction within the sense of what they’ve earned that, proper.”
Additional commenting on Ohtani being in comparison with Tiger Woods and LeBron James, Roberts mentioned:
“However for probably the most half, I deal with him similar to anybody else. However Colin, yeah, I agree. It is similar to, Tiger, what he did. You realize LeBron the expectation… And now you are speaking about Shohei on a worldwide scale. Like and he is actually the one participant I’ve ever seen that is moved the needle with baseball.”
Shohei Ohtani has firmly established himself as one of many recreation’s prime gamers, even signing a record-breaking 10-year, $700 million contract with the Dodgers in December 2023.
Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts on Shohei Ohtani’s stellar efficiency on Bobblehead night time
On Thursday, the Los Angeles Dodgers confronted the Athletics within the ultimate recreation of their three-game sequence. It additionally marked Shohei Ohtani’s bobblehead night time, which he capped off with a stellar efficiency.
Reacting to it, Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts mentioned:
“It is it is laughable. It truly is. I feel that his bobblehead night time homers and I might say his on-base plus slugging, his OPS with the bobblehead might be 2000. It looks like he homers each time. No, however Colin, it is unbelievable.”
Ohtani ended his Bobblehead Evening recreation with two residence runs, going 2-for-5 with two runs scored and 6 RBIs. To this point within the 2025 season, he’s posted a .305 batting common with 16 residence runs, 29 RBIs, and 10 stolen bases.
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