Shohei Ohtani is expected to face the hitters live for the first time since 2023 before the Los Angeles Dodgers match against New York Diets on Sunday.
This is the next stage of Ohtani’s resumption of the Ulnary Collateral Ligament Surgery, which he suffered in the fall of 2023. He has not yet presented for Dodgers since his signing of a free agreement of $ 700 million over 10 years before the 2024 season.
Ohtani recently added sliders and curve balls to its enclosure sessions of the lifts to accompany its quick ball. Manager Dave Roberts said Ohtani reached 95 MPH with his quick ball and that his “stuff looks good”.
Ohtani will throw teammates at Citi Field on Sunday morning, and Roberts said that the team was doing things at a time and at the rate of Ohtani.
He will not go back to the mound before the stars break.
“I think we are all impatient to see what it looks like the strikers. But when he decides to crawl it, I am very anxious [to see] That too, “said Roberts.” But everything is in his schedule. It’s really. When he will present the cursor to the strikers, when he really wants to increase the speed, everything is between him and the doctors. “”
Unlike the other launchers approaching a return to the mound, the Dodgers do not have the luxury of sending their head striker and the most precious player in the national league reigning to minors for a rehabilitation assignment. Instead, he will throw simulated games.
Ohtani, 30, is tied for the head in the majors with 17 circuits and strikes 0.302 with 31 points produced from the typing spot designated. Last season, he directed the National League at Home Runs (54) and the points produced (130) and became the first player to steal 50 bases and Homer 50 times.
As a launcher for five seasons with the Los Angeles Angels, he had 38-10 with an MPM of 3.01 in 86 departures. On 481 2/3 rounds, he withdrew 608 strikers.
He finished fourth in the American league Cy Young League in 2022, sandwiched between two MVP victories.
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