Shohei Ohtani
#17 SP · Dodgers
MVP '25Rookie of the Year '18Silver Slugger '25NLCS MVP '25Hank Aaron '25All-MLB 1st Team '25
Height
6'4"
Weight
210 lbs
Age
31
College
N/A
Experience
8 yrs
Bats/Throws
L/R
C+
A+
A+
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Fan Verdict
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Career StatsA+
| Year | Team | GP | ERA | W-L | K | WHIP | IP | SV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career |  | 105 | 2.8675418 | 41-21 | 704 | 1.0668257 | 0.0 | 0 |
Current Contract
Length
10 years
Total Value
$700.0M
Guaranteed
$420.0M
AAV
$70.0M/yr
Guaranteed %60%
Performance Analysis
A+
FCA+
Shohei Ohtani grades as an elite performer among MLB starting pitchers, earning a A Performance grade. He carries a 3.00 ERA (below the league average of 4.20, a strong mark) and a 1.29 WHIP across 528.2 innings pitched with a 16.1 K/9 rate. His 39-20 record provides context on team support and run prevention. His strikeout rate of 16.1 per nine innings ranks among the best in the league, showing dominant swing-and-miss ability. As a prime-age veteran at 31, Shohei is a key contributor for the Dodgers. A 365-game sample provides high confidence in this grade.
Fan & Media Sentiment
A+
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Shohei Ohtani commands an A+ public perception grade, and it is not even close — he sits in a tier of cultural and sporting celebrity that essentially no other active baseball player occupies. The media narrative around him is defined by two complementary threads: on-field dominance backed by back-to-back-to-back MVP awards in 2021, 2023, and 2025, and an off-field persona that leans into generational teammate respect, most recently through his decision to gift luxury watches to every Dodgers player while invoking a three-peat rallying cry that instantly became a clubhouse story. That kind of leadership moment lands differently when it comes from someone with his accolades — four Hank Aaron Awards, four Silver Sluggers, and an NLCS MVP already on his Dodgers resume — and the media has framed it accordingly, treating him not just as a star but as the unambiguous franchise cornerstone. His A+ performance grade maps directly onto the A+ sentiment grade in a way that almost never happens; typically there is some friction between how a player performs and how the public perceives him, but Ohtani has manufactured near-zero daylight between those two readings. The lone friction point in an otherwise immaculate public image is minor merchandise pricing pushback from fans — a $75 souvenir cup generating outrage says more about stadium economics than it does about Ohtani's standing — and that noise has not dented his favorability in any meaningful way. Recent reports framing his current batting stretch as a "slump" have been met with counter-narratives pointing to his elite pitching production, which is exactly the kind of multi-dimensional defense that only a two-way generational talent can rely on. The bottom line: Ohtani's public narrative is as clean and dominant as it gets in professional sports right now, and there is no credible threat to that standing on the horizon.
Recent Games
| Date | OPP | Result | AB | H | R | HR | RBI | BB | SO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat, 5/9 | vs ATL | W 3-1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Wed, 5/6 | @ HOU | W 12-2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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About this player
Shohei Ohtani is a veteran in his 8th MLB season listed at SP for the Dodgers. FanVerdicts maintains four independent grades for every MLB player on an active roster — Contract Value Index for the deal itself, Performance for on-field production, Sentiment for media and fan reaction, and Fan Verdict for community voting. Current grades for Shohei Ohtani: Contract Value Index C+, Performance A+, Sentiment A+, Fan Verdict pending.
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