Ohtani's two-way pursuits on the mound and in the batter's box separate him from his peers. But his base running talents have also placed him in rarified air.
The deluge of records, stats and anomalies in the game can be so overwhelming you lose track of what’s meaningful. Most leadoff homers, most three-run homers, back-to-back 30–30 seasons, fastest strikeout pitch, most consecutive losses to start a season while trailing … it never stops.
It’s big because 50 is an especially huge number of home runs. If Ohtani gets there it will mark only—get this—the 50th 50-homer in history. . Ohtani reacts after stealing second base during the fourth inning against the New York Mets at Dodger Stadium. / Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn ImagesNo. It is not anomalous. It only seems that way because of how static the game was for the past decade or more. In terms of the rate of stolen bases per game , we simply have returned to the 1980s and early ‘90s. And how great is that?
Only five players in history have stolen as many bases as Ohtani and been harder to catch. None of them are as big as Ohtani.Ohtani is not going to steal 118 bases in a season or 938 in his career. But Ohtani reminds me of Brock with the way he always slides feet first and never comes off the bag. He is a textbook, old-school slider who never has to worry about damage to his pitching hand. Davey Lopes and Maury Wills were two other elite base stealers who went into the bag feet first.
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