Best player in the world!!!!!

Ball just flies off his bat. Can't wait till opening day

Wow! The balls Ohtani smashed soared high in the blue sky and seemed to disappear into the far reaches of space!

There is nothing more enjoyable than watching Shohei hit home runs in baseball in my humble opinion.😃

The sound of the ball coming off the bat is crazy.

This dude is unbelievable wow

He's just DIFFERENT !!

Ohtani's hitting method is completely different from that of most major league players who swing with the power of their arms. His hitting method is to catch the optimal sweet spot of the incoming pitch at the moment and hit it just right. Therefore, he does not swing with arm strength, and his swing appears to be light and smooth. This is probably supported by the strength of his legs and hips, with no swaying of the axis of his torso, and his natural good dynamic vision. He trains his lower body intensively, so his legs and back, core, and axis are stable and unshakeable when he swings. This is because of the strength of his trained legs and back muscles. The roots appear to be an extension of the "meat hitting" method used in Japanese high school baseball to teach students who are still weak and skinny. It also has something in common with the long-hitting swing theory of golf. In his case, however, this may have been possible because he was a pitcher from a young age. In order to reduce the burden on their overworked arms and shoulders, pitchers focus on strengthening their lower body, including their legs and hips for core and axis stability. If his training methods as a pitcher for more than a decade since his boyhood have had a positive effect on his hitting, it may be because he is both a pitcher and a hitter. In addition, if you look at his practice swings, you will see that he does not have a swing that is just swinging around. In every at-bat, he try to deliberately aims to hit just the right pitch at the right time. It looks like he is practising his timing to increase that just-meet probability. He appears to be hitting every practice at bat with image training in his head for the game. And in every swing, his body axis is stable and his body rotates smoothly around his hips without any swaying.　 It is a very lean swing with high efficiency in transferring power to the ball. It is completely different from players who use their arm muscles to swing with force.

always MVP

My God those are going into outer space.

Looked like rockets flying off his bat! I am guessing that was Lance Lynn throwing BP! 👍

It's like a golf ball！

Shohei has a unique and special ability of adjustment on the "body mechanism" like, positioning of arms and legs, degree and angle of the bat, the hitting point of them bat. He can make such a perfect adjustment within a game.

Lets Go Dodgers!!!!

Anything can happen from showtime can’t wait to see him this season go dodgers!!

It’s so nice to see such power off his bat !

I'm so worried for those houses beyond the fences....

What an awesome camera angle, the one from where the catcher would be. I feel like I've missed out with the camera at shoulder level, and the grass in the background all my life. Perfect for the newer(not that new) launch angle dynamic.

Definitely Definitely a dream come true seeing him in dodgers blue. 💙

He is a work beast that's why he so great a player. Done😂❤❤

Dudes gonna hit a bomb on opening day!

He sure looks good,

21 swings, 10 stand-ins. Elbow not affected.

He just looks great in Dodger Blue!! 💯💯👏👏 It's SHOOOTIME!!! 🔵⚾️🔵⚾️

Love the sound 🦄💙🤴😍💥🔥 Moonshots!!!

This is great to see.. thanks!

That bat speed was amazing considering he isn't even hitting aat full power

THIS GOT ME TORQUED UP 😤💙🤍

BP practice = homerun derby. 😳🔥

強く振れているようですね。ほとんど不安なくバットを振れているのがいい。

Wait! That's not at 100% swing power?

오타니 최고야💙

Whoa! I haven’t seen power like this since Frank Howard!!! Sheesh! 🎉🎉🎉

The International Space Station has been put on high alert as UFB’s (unidentified flying baseballs) have been spotted shooting past their windows at light speed!

The ball tore through space and time and disappeared into the multiverse!

This dude is the only reason I got back into baseball.

We should all thank Lance Lynn today, for helping with batting practice!

as if the ball vanished and absorbed into the blue sky of phoenix

Honestly, they should let him get more rest for at least another few months. Dodgers have so much at stake for the future. We can all enjoy the rest of the ball club for a good amount of time. Go Dodgers!

0:14 ここからの角度初めて見たｗ全部ホームランに見える。

Funny how he yelled ball and giggled😅

道奇大咖球員圍觀大谷，他是如何揮棒的🎉🎉🎉

Thanks D-Mac,peace brother…

So effortless 💙⚾️💙⚾️

So far so great! Done!

ボールが叩き潰れそうなヘッドスピードだ･･･驚愕 ボールの凄まじい飛び方がよく分かる、ナイスな動画です。 術後だけど、もうこんなに振っても大丈夫なのかな？

Oh my Goddd😮

ボールが飛び過ぎて消えてくんだけどｗ

Shohei Ohtani is a player who can earn money just by batting free.

Beast mode

38 HRs projected? Come on. He's not pitching and focusing on hitting. I think he's north of 55 HRs.

21 swings, 10 over the fence. I don’t know if that number is typical BP or if it’s totally abnormal Shotime stuff.

He's going to make every pitcher look like Lance Lynn.

If they have a clue, Roberts and the "analytics" geeks better bat him 1 or 2 in the line up, or at least have Freeman behind him as protection...mark my words.

God, he looks so fine.

If thats Ohtani being careful 😈

Moon shots!

His bat is collapsing more in the stance stage than when he was with the Angels. Looks like Barry Bonds.

打球が宇宙に吸い込まれていく。

A bonafide superstar!! 😤

Ohtani was able to succeed in his two-way game player both pitch and hitter because of his unique and unprecedented way of thinking and actions in the process of his development. He was not born as a unicorn, an alien, or a superhuman from the beginning. He has voluntarily devised a method, and through hard work has transformed himself into a player who can succeed in both pitching and hitting! In youth baseball days, there would be large number of boys who want to be an ace pitcher and the No. 4 hitter both, if they possible. However, the reality is that many boys player give up to be both, as they go on to serect specializing in one or the other, whichever is relatively more dominant. Shohei Ohtani may have been one of them, but he is a rare person who, even after entering high school, did not give up that dream and continued to want to play both pitching and hitting if possible. He is the kind of person who never gave up on his dream of doing something that no one had ever done before. Naturally, many adults around him must have tried to persuade him that it was reckless. But Otani did not listen to their advice and did not give up on his dream. Even as a high school student, he was someone who dared to try to realize a dream that was said to have little chance of success. He analyzed himself to determine how he could reach the pinnacle of both pitching and hitting, grasped his current situation, identified what he lacked, and analyzed and wrote down what he needed to do to achieve his goals. He came up with specific methods to achieve his goals, including ways to strengthen and improve his baseball skills, processes to strengthen his basic physical strength, effective training methods, research on dietary methods to grow bigger, his outlook on life, his way of life, and even his lifestyle.　And he has continued to do so from his high school days to the present.. This is what makes Otani unique, and the producer who made Otani what he is today is Otani himself. 　This process is recorded in the 81 matrix sheets of the development scenario he drew up himself when he was 16 years old. Although Otani is blessed with innate qualities, he is neither a unicorn nor an alien, but a person who is able to continue his daily efforts and self-improvement in order to achieve his goals.　That is what has made him what he is today. What we should learn from him is the process of thinking and acting to achieve his goals that he practiced.

久しぶりの打撃、良い感じです。手術後なので無理のない、怪我しないでね

He looks ready. Hope he'll be ready just on time for 2025. This dodgers team is a team to definitely bet on.

he got good aim point

fan graphs doesn't seem to take into account that he missed the entire last month of the 2023 season - had he stayed healthy he would almost certainly have hit over 50 home runs - he was averaging 9/mth, and without the extra fatigue of pitching he might very well out-do those numbers.

Why do Otani's batted balls fly so far despite his seemingly light swing? Ohtani's hitting form looks quite different from that of many other major leaguers who swing with the power of their upper arms. Ohtani's swing form is unique in that there is not much power in his upper arms or upper body. Ohtani's hitting style is characterized by his ability to instantly find the optimal sweet spot for a pitch coming into the hitting zone, and to ensure that he hits the ball just right. His swing appears stable, smooth, and unshakeable, with no effort until the follow-through, when he captures the best timing to ensure that he hits the ball at the right moment. Despite this, the ball flies a long way. This is because the power generated by the swing trajectory is efficiently concentrated on a single point on the ball without waste and converted into the ball's flying power. Ohtani is able to hit the ball this way because, first, he has an unshakeable torso axis and strong legs and lower body, and second, he has good dynamic vision, which is the reason for his excellent pitch selection.（His good eye for the ball, which is the result of his natural dynamic vision.） He trains not only his upper body but also his lower body intensively, so that his legs and back, core, and axis are stable when he swings, and his body does not shake with the force of the swing. This is due to the strength of his well-trained legs and back muscles. In his case, being a pitcher from a young age may have contributed to the strength of his torso and legs and back. To reduce the burden on their overworked arms and shoulders, pitchers intentionally focus on training to strengthen the lower body, including the legs and hips, which stabilize the trunk and axis. In his case, more than 10 years of training as a pitcher since his boyhood may have formed his overwhelming core stability and leg and hip strength, and may have had a positive effect on his hitting form. If so, this may be the result of his pursuit of becoming a pitcher and hitter at the same time, a dual role that is very difficult to achieve. Another factor that may have contributed to his hitting is the way Japanese high school baseball education is conducted. Japanese high school baseball hitting instruction often adopts the "meat hitting" method. The bodies of Japanese high school students are often thin and without muscle strength, as they have not yet fully matured. In teaching these skinny and weak students to hit the ball, they often teach them to hit the ball at the best time, rather than hitting it with their upper arm strength. In other words, they teach them the "meat hitting" method, in which the ball is surely caught at the sweet spot and sent flying far away by its repulsive force. This approach is similar to the swing theory of hitting long shots in golf. In other words, this method has much in common with the theory of hitting the ball on the club's sweet spot and converting the acceleration of the club head into the force of the ball's flight with a stable swing trajectory that does not sway the axis. Watching Ohtani's swing, there are three things that make it different from the way other major leaguers hit the ball. (1) Good dynamic vision to see the ball in motion, (2) A stable swing trajectory that does　not blur due to the strength of his torso and legs and back, and (3) A meat strike method that ensures the best timing for hitting the ball. Ohtani has been training constantly since he was a boy to ensure that he has mastered these three things. Now, he is seeing the results of his efforts.

大谷は今年打点王だな。

That’s a lot of camera angles.

Hoping for a injury free season!!!!!!

😳👏

Los DODGERS son los #1 le pese a quien le pese ⚾️🇺🇸⚾️

I can't see where the ball goes in the sky 😂

reached in Japan

この野球少年の究極の進化系みたいな人は何なんだろうか…

4:02

Is this guy new? Never seen him on the team before. I recall some experts previously saying his hitting is high school level and he should be in the minors.

Good for him. God bless him with a lot of good physical talents. Isn’t it wonderful that if you can hit a ball and throw a ball and you’re blessed with good physical skills that you can get paid exorbitant amounts of money but yet our society is crumbling all around us, poverty homelessness hopelessness despair but yet they have all this money to give these people. Have a nice day. I’m wasting my time.😢😢😢

would the batting practice pitcher keep his job if he hits ohtani just oncei?

There is no way he hits less than 45 HR in 2024 season, 50+ very likely.

Let the Sho(hei) begin!

韓国のファンのために無理をしないことだけを祈ってます

It may be my imagination, but his swing looks the same as Freeman

How many swings did it take him?

😊 he is very very good as a player but ... pitchers will not throw meat balls to him 😅 might even walk him if they feel threatened depending on the game ( yes with those 2 supporting him it lower it to walking him all the time unlike on angels with an injury batter )

Bullcrap! He’s gonna hit 85 homers this year if that’s all he has to focus on

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1 Lux 2 Smith 3 ohtani 4 freeman 5 betts 6 muncy 7 Hernandez 8 outman 9 heyward

Pissing, shitting, and crying