After watching Shohei Ohtani’s major league debut on the mound, here’s a little piece of advice: Let this play out. Don’t rush to any judgments. Appreciate the athlete, applaud his pursuit of something that hasn’t been done in 100 years, and sit back and enjoy performances like the one he gave on Sunday.
The hype around Ohtani was tempered a bit after an unimpressive spring training, but with the bright lights of the regular season turned on, Ohtani showed the stuff and the makeup that makes his potential as a pitcher so exciting. He reached 100 mph on the radar gun a couple times, averaged 97.