Shohei Ohtani retains doing issues no baseball participant has ever performed.

The Dodgers celebrity unanimously gained the Nationwide League’s Most Beneficial Participant award Thursday, turning into the primary full-time designated hitter to take house the {hardware}.

In his first season with the Dodgers, Ohtani grew to become the primary large leaguer to have 50 house runs and 50 stolen bases in a single season. Ohtani’s 54 homers have been high within the NL and his 59 stolen bases ranked second in all of MLB.

Shohei was additionally second within the NL with a .310 batting common, and he lead the league in on-base proportion, slugging proportion and OPS. In different phrases, he was one of the best hitter by far.

It is the third MVP award for Ohtani, who was twice named AL MVP when he was taking part in throughout city with the Angels.

Distinction is, Ohtani was pitching and hitting again then … and this 12 months he was restricted to being a DH as he recovered from low season surgical procedure on his pitching elbow.

Simply goes to point out how dominant Ohtani was within the batter’s field in 2024 … and the way a lot of a difference-maker he was for the Dodgers, who completed with one of the best report in MLB and in the end gained the World Sequence.