Ohtani Comes To America
Episodes
2025 Recap: A Two-Way Return, Another MVP & Championship
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It was going to be a challenge for Ohtani to start pitching again after taking last season off to recover from arm surgery, but that's what he thr...
50/50 Record, MVP, World Series Champion
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ohtani’s first regular season with the Dodgers was a massive success, despite all the drama of the offseason leading up to it. He became the first p...
Married Man + Ippei Gambling Scandal
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a crazy offseason for Ohtani this year. Signing his $700 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers in free agency wasn’t the end of ...
The 29 'What If' Teams
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ohtani has reported to Spring Training and is beginning a new journey to prepare for the start of the 2024 season. While the Dodgers were always a top...
Contract Details Brings Debate
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After getting the full breakdown on the $700 million contract that Ohtani signed with the Dodgers, perceptions around the deal shifted. While it was a...
Record $700M Contract with Dodgers
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The big decision of free agency is done. Ohtani is staying in Southern California, but with the Los Angeles Dodgers as his next team. The contract is ...
'Beyond The Dream' Doc + 2nd MVP Win
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After winning the MVP in 2021 and falling second in 2022 to Aaron Judge’s record-breaking performance, Ohtani’s performance this year earned him a...
Surgery Done, Season Over
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After being shut down from pitching at the end of August, the rest of Ohtani's season also wrapped up earlier into September than expected. From a...
Half The Sho
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ohtani was announced to have a UCL tear (in his elbow), which has stopped him from pitching for the rest of the season. And, depending if he gets Tomm...
Staying in Anaheim, For Now
04 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
While the Angels said they were listening to trade offers, Ohtani seemed to never really be close to getting moved by the team. So he'll remain in...
Trade Deadline Approaching
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
June turned out to be one of the best months of Ohtani’s career, hitting 15 homers in 30 days and having some impressive pitching starts. While he i...
Contract Year First Look
09 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a big year for Ohtani, as no longer after this season will he be committed to the Angels anymore. No more contract, and so far there’s been n...
WBC Recap: Ohtani Leads Japan To Victory
25 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The winner of this year's World Baseball Classic all came down to the matchup everyone had been dreaming of: Shohei Ohtani vs. Mike Trout. Little ...
WBC Preview: Japan Homecoming
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s time for the World Baseball Classic (WBC), the international tournament akin to the World Cup – except for baseball, and not anywhere near as...
Judge Beats Ohtani For MVP
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the postseason award announcements, Ohtani took 2nd place in the AL MVP race to slugger Aaron Judge for the 2022 season. It wasn't much of a surpri...
Meeting Expectations
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It was a great year for Ohtani on a personal level, but once again no playoff baseball after a losing season from the Angels team. The second half of ...
Ohtani’s Hot, Angels Not
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The All-Star Break brings us around the midway mark of the year. It took a little bit for Ohtani to warm up this season, but now he's continued to hea...
S5 Intro: MLB The Sho
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After an unusual offseason for baseball with the lockout, Opening Day is back and Ohtani will take the mound tomorrow for his official pitching and hi...
Unanimous MVP Winner! (2021 Finale)
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With the playoffs and World Series over, it's time for baseball awards. Of course, they saved the most important one until the end, but it was worth t...
Best Season Yet, Even With Quiet 2nd Half
10 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The regular season is over and, as usual, the Angels did not make the playoffs or come close. While the second half of the year after the All-Star Bre...
The Home Run Derby, All-Star Game, & Midseason Recap
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We’re at the break of an incredible first half for Ohtani where he’s leading the league in home runs, up there in Cy Young contention, and is givi...
Angel In The Outfield
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Now a three-way player sensation with making appearances in the outfield, Shohei Ohtani has taken the start of the 2021 baseball season by storm. Both...
S4 Intro: Time To Believe?
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Opening Day is here again and the excitement has been noticeably increasing for Shohei Ohtani having a successful year as a two-way player on the moun...
60 Games of Sadness (2020 Finale)
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It was a slow and torturous rest of the season to be a fan of Ohtani, even though he was finally able to just focus only on hitting after stopping pit...
And Just Like That, Back To One-Way Again
08 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Two weeks into the covid season, we have injury news. Ohtani is off the pitching mound for the season, although luckily he will still be able to keep ...
S3 Intro: Going Into The Covid Season, Return of Two-Way Shohei, Angels Get Maddon and Rendon
23 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After the longest offseason of all time, baseball is finally back! With the global pandemic of coronavirus, it’s going to be a strange limited seaso...
Sophomore Year Recap (2019 Finale)
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ohtani's season ended a couple weeks ago, but the Angels just wrapped up their regular season (with no playoffs ahead of them). We talk about some min...
The Unexpected Knee Surgery
13 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
There was breaking news on Thursday, out of nowhere, that Ohtani was going to have season-ending knee surgery the next day on Friday (we were as shock...
Midseason Update + R.I.P. Tyler Skaggs
13 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The All-Star break happened this week. After a few days off, today marks the 2nd half of the season beginning. We talk about how Ohtani's done so far ...
The Kikuchi Matchup: 1st Round Goes To Shohei
10 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In a historic first MLB matchup in America between Yusei Kikuchi and Shohei Ohtani, two young baseball stars from Japan from the same region and high ...
Ohtani's Return! Sophomore Season Begins
10 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
THE BOY IS BACK! Finally, Ohtani was activated to play again this week. We talk about what that means, how he did in his first series back, prediction...
S2 Intro: Recap for Offseason, Winning Rookie Of The Year Award, and Current Status of Injury
27 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We're back for a special offseason recap as Spring Training ends and Opening Day is here with the baseball season officially at its start for 2019. Th...
Babe Ruth (2018 Finale)
22 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Exactly 100 years ago in 1918, Babe Ruth gave his case for a two-way player. Now, a century later, Shohei Ohtani challenged that. We discuss compariso...
R.O.Y Debate vs. Andujar
15 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As Yankees fans ourselves, but also Ohtani supporters, we get into a debate with each other about who should win the 2018 Rookie Of The Year award. Sh...
A Year of Ohtani
08 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recap of the entire rookie season for Ohtani, going back all the way to when the news first broke a year ago of his decision to come to America at the...
Farewell, Mike Scioscia
01 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Regular season comes to a big conclusion - Ohtani confirms he's getting Tommy John surgery immediately after this last week of games, Mike Scioscia an...
September Slumpin'
24 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Rough and terrible week for both Ohtani and the Angels. Not anything to do with more injuries to Ohtani, but he's in a hitting slump right now and the...
At Home In Orange County
17 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We went to a game this week against the Seattle Mariners so we discussed that, Trout and Ohtani having back-to-back dingers, winning the AL Player Of ...
More Dingers, Tommy John
10 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The dreaded surgery recommendation comes in for Ohtani to get the infamous Tommy John operation on his arm. We break down what it means for both his p...
Pitching In The Spotlight
03 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A big controversial week as Ohtani makes his pitching return against the Houston Astros, defending World Series champions and current AL West division...
The Breakfast Club
27 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Facing real hitters in simulation games, Players Weekend ("Showtime"), Trout returns to the team, 80's night at Angels Stadium, Maldonado reunion, Jus...
Weekend Rodeo in Texas
20 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
More bullpen pitching sessions this week, a major dinger, helping out as a pinch hitter, fun with teammates (handshakes, learning languages, LLWS, Del...
Throwing With The Towel
14 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We talk about Ohtani's drill of throwing towels (for pitching), his important bullpen session over the weekend, hitting a HR for Trout's birthday, and...
Cleveland Is The City
06 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
First on-the-road home runs for Ohtani in a career-best game against his favorite team, the latest stats comparing to Babe Ruth, losing Ian Kinsler bu...
Angels Making Changes
30 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Maldonado traded to the Astros (Ohtani's bestie & catcher), Arcia comes to the majors and becomes a quick dangerous friend, new info on how Simmons an...
Pitching Arm Update
23 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Cleared to start throwing again! :-) We talk the positive new updates on Ohtani's pitching arm, when to expect him to pitch in actual games, and what ...
Two-Way Bobblehead
16 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Second week hitting again (after coming off DL), games with Mariners and Dodgers, the unusual double Ohtani bobblehead, and our initial thoughts on th...
24th Birthday, Hitting Again
09 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ohtani finally comes back from the DL to hit again (no pitching yet), right in time for the July 4th holiday and Ohtani's 24th birthday on July 5th. A...
Relationship With The Press
02 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
First we give an injury update (Ohtani cleared to hit!) and then we talk about his relationship with The Press, in particular the massive amount of Ja...
Differences: Japan / USA Baseball
25 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The ways that Japan's NPB (Nippon Professional Baseball) is both similar and different to America's MLB (Major League Baseball) in rules and styles of...
Mike Trout & Ohtani BFF's
18 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Best friends duo of Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani, as well as why The Sandlot has to be Ohtani's favorite movie. (Currently Ohtani is still on the DL t...
Three Weeks On The DL
11 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ohtani gets placed on the DL for 3 weeks with a Grade 2 UCL sprain injury. We talk about what that means for Ohtani, for the Angels, and for baseball....
First Comes Spanish
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
News from the Angels team of Ohtani's knowledge of the Spanish language moving quicker than English, our theory of his possible new obsession coming...
Yankees, Tanaka Matchup, Gleyber Torres
28 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss this week's big matchup vs. the Yankees and what Ohtani has in common with two Yankees players - fellow Japanese pitcher Masahiro Tanaka (...
Should Shohei: Play In The HR Derby?
21 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ohtani's week against the Astros and Rays, whether he should play in the Home Run Derby or not (if given the chance), and our ideal scenario for when ...
Mile High City
14 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ohtani plays in his first NL stadium and gets his first pinch hit against the Rockies in Coors Field, has a great start with 11 strikeouts at home ag...
Ichiro vs. Ohtani (Almost)
07 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We talk about the Ichiro matchup vs Ohtani that the world was so close to seeing, their similarities as Japanese superstar players coming to the U.S, ...
A Month In The Majors
30 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We give the compact rundown on how Ohtani did in Spring Training and his first month playing Major League Baseball in the U.S.
It Starts In Japan
23 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
All the history you need to know about Ohtani's baseball career in Japan before he made the recent switch to Major League Baseball in America.
Intro - #ShoTime
18 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jack and Kev talk about what the podcast will be about, the basics of Shohei Ohtani for those who don't know, and a general brief introduction.