« Il est fondamentalement comme un frappeur de lycée parce qu’il n’a jamais vu une bonne balle courbe. Il a vu des balles rapides et des changements de vitesse. Et vous demandez à un frappeur de lycée de passer dans les ligues majeures ? » – Scout de la MLB sur Ohtani au printemps 2018.
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Par thegeebeebee
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Shohei Ohtani was really underestimated back then by MLB scouts and MLB fans when he was still a rookie in MLB after a stellar career in Japan, still it’s really nice to see Ohtani made them eat those words and is now an MLB superstar today.
Yeah, because the second best baseball league in the world is comparable to my local highschool team lmao, insane how many stupid headlines people wrote back then for clicks.
That scout really underestimated Ohtani’s skillset and adaptability.
I kind of feel like that should be grounds to be blackballed from the industry
“Who’s Fabio?”
Probably one of the Oakland A’s scouts from Moneyball
« His girlfriend is 6 , at best, lacks confidence »
Are japanese pitchers not notorious for having nasty curveballs anyway?
The fact this person is a paid scout is insane. How many times does team Japan (which is mostly comprised of NPB players) have to dominate the WBC to prove that they’re an incredibly good league?
TIL nobody throws a curveball in NPB…
scha·den·freu·de
ˈSHädənˌfroidə/
noun
pleasure taken from another’s suffering.
I thought that after moneyball these bums lost their jobs.
What did this scout think of his girlfriend?
I would hope that none of these scouts are working for MLB teams anymore.
Looked like it tonight…
I didn’t know Stephen A Smith was an MLB scout
That was 6 years ago