Los Angeles Dodgers skipper Dave Roberts lately mentioned managing Japanese famous person Shohei Ohtani. Roberts has been managing Ohtani because the two-way participant joined the Dodgers earlier than the 2024 season and went on to make them the World Sequence.
In a current episode of The Herd on Fox Sports activities, host Colin Cowherd and Dave Roberts in contrast Shohei Ohtani to legendary athletes comparable to Tiger Woods and LeBron James, gamers who not solely lived as much as the hype however exceeded it.
Cowherd then requested Roberts what it is wish to handle a participant of Ohtani’s caliber. The Dodgers supervisor responded (begins at 0:38):
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“ I believe it is a kind of issues that it is an attention-grabbing query. And primary is you attempt to keep out of the way in which as a lot as potential and never intervene. That is primary. However I additionally suppose that you simply received to only deal with these guys like everybody else.”
“And I believe that they actually watch intently that you do not attempt to deal with them any otherwise, however there’s distinction within the sense of what they’ve earned that, proper.”
Additional commenting on Ohtani being in comparison with Tiger Woods and LeBron James, Roberts mentioned:
“However for essentially the most half, I deal with him identical to anybody else. However Colin, yeah, I agree. It is identical to, Tiger, what he did. You recognize LeBron the expectation… And now you are speaking about Shohei on a world scale. Like and he is actually the one participant I’ve ever seen that is moved the needle with baseball.”
Shohei Ohtani has firmly established himself as one of many sport’s high gamers, even signing a record-breaking 10-year, $700 million contract with the Dodgers in December 2023.
Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts on Shohei Ohtani’s stellar efficiency on Bobblehead night time
On Thursday, the Los Angeles Dodgers confronted the Athletics within the closing sport of their three-game collection. It additionally marked Shohei Ohtani’s bobblehead night time, which he capped off with a stellar efficiency.
Reacting to it, Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts mentioned:
“It is it is laughable. It truly is. I believe that his bobblehead night time homers and I might say his on-base plus slugging, his OPS with the bobblehead might be 2000. It looks like he homers each time. No, however Colin, it is unbelievable.”
Ohtani ended his Bobblehead Night time sport with two dwelling runs, going 2-for-5 with two runs scored and 6 RBIs. Up to now within the 2025 season, he’s posted a .305 batting common with 16 dwelling runs, 29 RBIs, and 10 stolen bases.
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