The parallels between youth baseball and the big leagues might be more similar than you’d think.
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Growing up, the best player would often bat leadoff in order to maximize the amount of trips to the plate he/she would have. There’s always that one player who’d stand out above the rest — and as such you’d want to get them up to bat as much as possible.
Well, even on the largest scale, Dave Roberts operates similarly with Shohei Ohtani.
The Japanese slugger could very easily bat second, third, or in the cleanup spot for all teams across the league.