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    Ohtani bypasses superstardom for superhero status

    His swings are forceful but fluid. 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 ...
    by Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times May 26, 2021 8 minutes

    His swings are forceful but fluid.

    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).

    As a pitcher, his 2.37 ERA ranked in the top 20 among those with at least 30 innings, while his .152 batting average against and 13.35 strikeouts-per-nine-innings were both sixth-best in MLB.

    In Fangraphs’ combined wins-above-replacement leaderboard, his 2.0 WAR ranked sixth in the American League.

    And in the wake of teammate Mike Trout’s long-term calf injury, Ohtani now has the best betting odds in the race for American League MVP.

    The individual highlights are just as impressive, a reel that grows a little longer almost every night.

    He played his first two-way MLB game against the Chicago White Sox during the season’s opening weekend, striking out seven and crushing a long home run.

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