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The Angel’s Shohei Ohtani went 3-4 with 2 home runs and a career high 8 RBIs on Tuesday night against the Kansas City Royals and then pitched a 2 hitter over eight innings with 13 strikeouts, and retired 23 out of the last 24 hitters the following night.
The Braves right-handed pitcher Tony Cloninger had 12 strikeouts in a game in 1966 and had 9 RBIs (as a pitcher, hitting) a couple of months later.
Ohtani, the two-way phenom earns 729,553,000 JPY a season. That sounds like a lot. It is. $5,500,000 USD. But it’s really low based on the insane salaries in MLB.
It took a record-setting three-year, $130 million deal to lure Max Scherzer from Hollywood to the New York City. The three-time Cy Young award winner will earn an average annual salary of over $43 million with the Mets, the highest in MLB history. Insane.
Scherzer was traded to the Dodgers to help them win another World Series, but sat out the deciding game 6 because of a “dead arm.” He blamed it on the Dodgers and said the dead arm was from not pitching enough in September. This season he is 5-1 with a 2.56 ERA in 49.2 innings pitched and is currently on the DL.
Ohtani needs a new agent. He should be paid as a hitter and a pitcher.
Rick Clarke's Diary of a Mad Baseball Coach 