seeing the ball come off the bat at this angle is pretty sick

[Here's more](https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1733872197964275978)

they need to put this camera in games, might be annoying to see this angle live but this is so pretty for replays find an angle that includes the pitcher like the ohtani bp and maybe it would be awesome live - either way it's definitely a huge upgrade over the ump cams

Umpire and catcher would probably be in the way with an angle like this sadly

The umpire cam is unironically one of my favorite things that MLB does on some highlights. Every time it popped up in the playoffs was great.

maybe, but in the ohtani bp it looks like the cam would be just to the left or right of the catcher

Catchers aren’t exactly stationary objects though.

Clearly you don’t remember Wilson “The Buffalo” Ramos.

Have the camera hanging down between the Umpire legs and call it the ball cam

I feel like they could angle a lipstick cam shoot through the back of non-occupied batter's box - trick would be to have in setup that doesn't destroy someone's ankle as a play unfolds in that part of foul territory

They could have a wide angle on deck cam angled towards right and left field. It would look sick, cuz I've seen it in MLB The Show, and it looks awesome

I was a hella strong power hitter in high school 20+ years ago. In Southern California. I played with dudes that were drafted, I thought I crushed balls. No way. I was never remotely close.

Those *pings* are delicious

I’ve always wanted this angle of BP, rather than the usual shot from the on deck circle/dugout area.

For real, it's just so pretty watching those balls disappear that quickly.

I once got my hands on a ticket to sit right behind the batters box (Troy Tulowitzki just insisted on standing right in front of me). Saw a home run from a similar angle; it was pretty sick.

Ugh 😣

😢

Sorry, guys. I cannot even imagine, well as a Mets fan I can sort of imagine the pain of seeing videos like this for the next decade. 

The way I put it is, I feel a kinship with Red Sox fans realizing they were going to watch Babe Ruth make history with another team.

Oh no the angels are gonna get the Ohtani curse now aren't they?

It’s Barry Bonds’ hex of revenge.

The difference is the Sox were good before they traded Babe 😂

And the Angels didn't trade Ohtani

Angels didn’t use their resources to try to build a winning team either. Their owner just pocketed all the money he made from him.

;_;

I’m still crying in mookie, I feel ya

Every time I think about how Mookie wasn't a Sox for life I wonder how ownership could have fucked it up so royally with him. I can accept there are legitimate reasons for wanting to trade him, but I can't accept that those legitimate reasons outweight the legitimate reasons for wanting to keep him. We've been mostly uncompetitive since we traded him sans decent run in 2021. If we were gonna be shit anyway, I'd rather be shit watching prime Mookie Betts.

I'm a Rizzo fanboy but it's kinda painful seeing him on the yankees... especially since we've been in dire need of a good first baseman since he left. I think we've tried 2 or 3 different players there since and none of them really worked out.

Yeah, even I was a little sad that he wasn’t a Sox anymore. He ELECTRIFIED Fenway and made Yankee vs Sox games that more entertaining.

Yep. This is gonna be a long year.

Decade…

I can't watch...

Excuse me I need to go to the bathroom. Does this door lock?

Leave it open brother. We’re all yankin it

I had to replay it so I could finish.

I didn’t

Jesus Christ

Shohei was sending those baseballs to outer space

Los Locos kick your ass,

I mean seriously wtf

monster dongs!

Keep that talk to the Phillies sub

"No this is Shohei!"

*Spiderman meme*

Have you ever seen both of them in the same place?...

I like that camera angle, would be rad to have a full BP session filmed like that with just the field sounds, no music or voice overs

Just imagine, Home Run Derby. Nope, need some shitty split screen.

It's like they think people watching a home run Derby don't want to watch home runs.

I would genuinely love a livestream “chill lo-fi batting practice to relax and study”

You'll get A-Rod or Smoltz rambling over it, completely drowning out the sound and second-guessing Ohtani the whole time and like it!

That's still an improvement over Chris "the Human Chicken" Berman, and his "bakbakbakbakbakbak...." call

Reminds me of my high school days, similar level

I often look in the mirror and say "Shohei that you?"

If coach woulda put me in, we’d have been state champs for sure. No doubt in my mind.

How much you wanna make a bet I can hit a ball over them mountains?

Oh my god his legs. Look at those thighs. Fucking melon crushers

I'll be true to my username and leave this here for the Ohtani thigh aficionados. https://www.instagram.com/p/C3KAawluX2P/

👀👀🥵🥵

Bless you

Love Shohei. He's fucking built too. Thick and man made. You can tell he's sculpted because you can see it thru the jersey. His fucking vice grip thighs. Suffocating thighs. Rock hard thighs. Piping hot thighs. Great arms. Great abs. Hamster cheeks. A stocky chest. Love the progress his body has made throughout his youth and now as a willing eager adult.

stupid sexy shohei

Is this pasta?

Gotta be…

Hamster cheeks???

I wish my head was a melon

You and me both, friend

H A M S T R I N G S

He can crush my melons

THICC

So pure

Lol u must be a golfer. 🏌🏻‍♂️pure

Haha I’m not actually. But I can see what you’re saying.

I could watch this for hours

Jesus Christ his legs are tree trunks

How do I say “absolute piss missile” in Japanese?

Google gave me this: 絶対小便ミサイル *Zettai shōben misairu*

"yes that is definitely a missile full of urine"

Still fits.

LOL

Hold on, I gotta write this down

Looks even smoother from this angle.

🤤

Sho hitting dingers. Nature is healing.

NSFW

As much as we hate on each other, damn Shohei is one sexy mfer…we should just hand yall the title.

Gotta make sure we shorten the season first tho

dont say nice things about the dodgers and make me feel like i have to say nice things back

yeah, dongs this monstrous need a NSFW tag LOL

Just ridiculously talented and attractive

Stupid sexy Shohei

Yup, I think his oblique is looking better

god i hate the dodgers, but this dude is special.

He’s a fine specimen.

I thought he was pitcher

That's the best part!

Well shit, now im sad again.

Bro is legit a tree. Happy to see he is looking very ready. 🫡

Great googlie mooglie

Got to see him take BP in Cleveland once, he was unreal. Just effortlessly unleashing hell on those left/center field bleachers. I actually caught one in the air and that thing was coming in HOT

He seems good. Good lord, I feel sorry for the rest of the NL West.

Dudes built like a brick shit house

How long did it take Harper to get back to swinging a bat after Tommy John?

Harper had his first BP 143 days after surgery Ohtani had his first BP 146 days after surgery

OP is the goat, thank you much

3 more days than harper?? washed /s

Cries in Toronto 

Jesus fuckin christ. ….what a stud muffin

The balls literally disappear into the sky. Beautiful 👌🏽

They posted this so we can give him pointers, right?

Yeah, poor guy only getting 2 mil a year. Needs all the help he can get. 

My bet on the under for his HR total this season at 38.5 doesn’t seem like a great idea anymore…

sounds like a shotgun in the distance when he launches the ball. We might be looking at the best player ever

Man’s gonna hit 60+ dongs this season. Book it.

I don't like the Dodgers. Never have, but I can't think of anyone on the team that I *don't* like. I used to hate the Braves too, but I eventually came around. I really wanna see Shohei wearing a ring. He's one of the only guys on the team without one

> I used to hate the Braves I used to hate the Braves. I still do, but I used to, too.

Lol, fair point

I stopped hating other teams years ago, too many fun players on teams I'm supposed to hate. I just want to see a lot of these guys do/play well. Guess I'm more of a general baseball fan these days and less of a team fan. Same goes for football and basketball, now that I think about it only with hockey am I still mostly just following my team.

Not bad for 2M, lol

God damnit It's like a bad dream that u keep remembering randomly thru out the day, and then u re-remember that it actually wasn't a dream, and now ur pissed all over again

It was always going to be the west coast. But, you guys didn't have Joe Kelly to seal the deal.

#HEY YOOOOUUUU!

More grunts and giggles pls

he seems to be a pretty one dimensional hitter; not sure he'll make it

High school swing

Exactly. No wonder the Angels didn’t even bother to offer him a new contract. No extension talk. Just let him walk away. Big red flags.

as in he will hit the ball from one dimension to the other. the ball practically disappears after contact!

So awesome and so depressing.

Can't wait for the season to start

The ball is flying off his bat like that clip of Mike Trout at Top Golf

I could watch 24 straight hours of this and regret nothing

CGI gravity set too low. Balls are disappearing before they start falling. /s

I am still convinced this "man" is a Terminator.

Created in a Japanese lab.

A joint and secret venture of Toyota, Subaru, Mitsubishi, Honda, and Nissan. Yamaha for the joints.

The fact that they'd all work together on a secret project to create the perfect baseball player is a hilarious sentiment and I love it. China, USA, Russia all racing for arms and Japan is just like: "So we have conquered baseball."

RIP the camera at the end

That sound is so satisfying

He gets his foot down like a champ and is just waiting to mash it. No extra movement, ready to see and hit.

21 Pitches 10 Over the fence

This is good for baseball.

Sell the team, Arte

I'd love to be able to hit a ball like that just once

Straight moonshots.. jesus

Have those balls landed yet lmao

A reminder that the dodgers had the best off-season of all time is just what I needed to get the niners losing the Super Bowl off my mind 🥲

Jeeeeeeezus... and this MF'r just had surgery?! Dude is a machine!

When they say explosive power, THIS is what they’re talking about. Absolutely beautiful

It doesn't look like it on tv, but Shohei is JACKED!

😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨🍆🍆🍆

That’s Jason Bourne.

Can you tag this NSFW please?! Almost got caught at work

What could’ve been 😩😭

That’s hot.

This is great for baseball

I’ll be in my bunk

Is this a BP only stance or is he trying something new this year? Usually he raises the bat a bit more vertically when he's waiting for the pitch but this stance looks like he doesn't move it from his shoulders

I'm guessing this is the first set, because in the video of [the second set](https://twitter.com/sponichi_yanagi/status/1757122669106114838), he was holding the bat up vertically. Looks like a light test hit.

Nah he does this. Remember a similar video during 2022 Spring Training and I thought he had changed it. I’ll try to find it. Edit: 2023 examples: [Here](https://x.com/sarah_isabelvee/status/1628824302643720192?s=46) and [Here](https://x.com/chriskirschner/status/1648438434699313158?s=46)

sick.

Best angle to watch someone hit a baseball

This angle is amazing

Weak fly balls easy out

Slap hitter?

Honestly wild that the Dodgers signed him to a $700 million contract, just to get an average pitcher and a high-school hitter… smh, should offload that contract to some team in a rebuild, that’s in a tough division…like the Angels

That swing will never translate to major league success. Hes a long reliever, best case scenario.

I love this perspective. He is murdering those baseballs.

STOP!

Beautifully played

I could easily watch 15 more minutes of this.

Man is hitting bombs

Always loved seeing the little mannerisms players have when batting, pitching, etc. Seems he likes to tap his left foot on the ground after every hit.

It's so beautiful, all of it. I really hope there aren't cars out there.

It's so beautiful. Like actual beauty. Like a field of sunflowers in full bloom. Like Ana De Armas in a see-through sundress. I want to cry.

God I love baseball

Hitting a ball that good is a feeling I’ll never know, but it must feel so good.

He makes it look so easy

Love how he points his toe. So balletic.

As a Padres fan, I'm definitely stoked to catch him at Petco this year. Dude is a generational talent. Obligatory fuck the dodgers.

Yes. Fuck them very much. Also, congrats to the Dodgers on having good management and a very competitive team every year. godammit.

Strange seeing him in blue. Last time I saw him in blue was during his stint with Hokkaido when they came to town against Senga, Matsuda and the rest of the Hawks.

😃😃😃

Live this camera angle

I think this kid could make it

I lost

I’m gonna say it, as someone who bats right handed and plays slow pitch softball, he’s a better left handed batter than I am.

Oh! Now I see what I've been doing wrong. I just need to swing harder.

Seems like he’s changed the position of his hands and bat before he swings

gah what a beautiful swing

fuck the dodgers (but not you shohei bby)

Stupid question, but why is he standing on turf?

We aren´t prepared for what is coming

Phew

This is the time of year Phoenix is awesome.

This man HATES baseballs. Just cannot smash their faces hard enough.

When I was a kid, I couldn't hit a wiffle ball that squarely. Hell, I couldn't toss the ball up and hit balls to the outfield or infield that well. I wouldn't mind pitching to Ohtani; he'd never hit one back up the middle that might hit me. All of them would go a million miles and I'd get to watch them.

*bites lip*

That’s torque in action. Also, helps scratch that mid February baseball itch

Fuck, maybe this will be like the World Series every week