His pitches electric with ease.
For doing something so rare this season, Shohei Ohtani has made his two-way role with the Angels look almost routine.
“It is exceeding what I thought we would see by now,” manager Joe Maddon said. “In both arenas, hitting or pitching.”
There’s no one way to measure the magnitude of Ohtani’s campaign thus far.
As a hitter, he began play this past weekend tied for the most home runs in the majors with 14. He led the majors with 26 extra-base hits, and had a .920 on-base-plus-slugging percentage and 155 wRC+ (an all-encompassing stat in which 100 is considered league average).