#OHTANI STATS FULL#

It bears emphasis: No player in the history of baseball has ever been as good at hitting and pitching as Shohei Ohtani was this season. Even if he didn't pitch enough innings to qualify for the ERA title, what he's done has been unprecedented. His final pitching numbers: 23 starts, a 9-2 record, 130 1/3 innings, a 3.18 ERA, 151 strikeouts (10.8 strikeouts per nine), 1.090 WHIP, 4.1 WAR via Baseball-Reference, 3.0 WAR via FanGraphs.įor six months, Ohtani was in the Angels' lineup nearly every day while regularly taking a turn in the rotation, though the Angels did their best to give him extra days of rest and pushed back some starts due to health concerns. He had 4.8 WAR by Baseball-Reference's calculations entering Sunday, 5.0 WAR per FanGraphs. His final hitting numbers: 639 plate appearances, a. With one last addition to his stats, a leadoff homer in Sunday's season finale against the Seattle Mariners (video above), here is where we have arrived with Ohtani. That's why what Ohtani has done has broken everything we know about the limits of a baseball player. That's why what Ohtani did in Year 4 still doesn't seem real, even as he put the finishing touches on his campaign on Sunday.

#OHTANI STATS FULL#

Just playing a full two-way season would have been an accomplishment. No sport quite grinds you down quite like baseball's 162-game regular season, and Ohtani was basically trying to play two of those seasons at once.

Ohtani stats