What will we see from Shohei Ohtani in his first postseason appearance vs. Padres? | Baseball Bar-B-Cast
Yahoo Sports senior MLB analyst Jordan Shusterman and senior MLB analyst Jake Mintz preview the San Diego Padres matchup against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Division Series, and highlight some of the main players to watch in the series. Hear the full conversation on the “Baseball Bar-B-Cast” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
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Dodgers.
Padres, my friends is going to be just glorious.
We get to watch show here, Tony in the postseason that speaks for itself.
I don't need to explain that.
I don't need to explain why that's important.
The Padres, they took the season series, they won uh eight out of those 13 games.
Now, they couldn't quite do it in those last few weeks where we thought they had an outside chance of chasing down the Dodgers to the division.
But the Padres have more than held their own against the Dodgers over the last few years and now have this incredible opportunity to, to do it again and spoil what is going to be a, just an o if you thought the Otani mania has reached a fever pitch, we are just getting started and by the way, that's the way it should be Padres fans.
It's ok for that to get under your skin.
It's OK.
Beat him, that's fine.
You can beat him, beat him.
All the Otani hype should make you mad.
It should make you frustrated, be jealous.
Otani down the stretch this year started to peel back some layers of himself that we really hadn't seen before, if he hits a big homer or drives in a clutch run, we're gonna get something abnormal from a player who has been relatively stoic throughout his time in our lives.
One team has him, one team does not.
And I do think that the Padres offense is really good.
They don't have the guy with 50 1000 steals and 50,000 home runs point is Sh Itani is the most important story here because we've been waiting for him to be in the postseason forever when we finally got to watch him play high stakes game for teams.
Japan.
How did that go?
It was like the coolest thing we've ever seen.
So now we get to see him do it for the Dodgers, which I imagine.
I know it's not as fun to watch for a neutral fan as him, maybe doing it for Japan, even if you really cared about, you know, team USA, this is still going to be very, very, very special.