{"id":4372,"date":"2025-05-23T22:09:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/05\/23\/hei-ohtani-is-the-first-to-hitter-as-the-star-takes-a-big-step-towards-pitching-return\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T22:09:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:09:47","slug":"hei-ohtani-is-the-first-to-hitter-as-the-star-takes-a-big-step-towards-pitching-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/05\/23\/hei-ohtani-is-the-first-to-hitter-as-the-star-takes-a-big-step-towards-pitching-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Hei ohtani is the first to hitter as the  star takes a big step towards pitching return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Los Angeles   two-way star Shoe Hei Otani is taking a big step to regain his two-way label.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, manager Dave Roberts told reporters that Otani will face live hitters at Citifield on Saturday since undergoing surgery to repair the UCL in September 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More news: <\/strong>A hypothetical trade proposal to land Paul Skens on the &#8216; Pirates&#8217; big hit move<\/p>\n<p>Otani is slowly rising up as a pitcher after the team progresses towards this season. But this is a big step towards him returning to the mound.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-when-will-shohei-ohtani-pitch-for-dodgers\">When will the  shoes be pitched?<\/h2>\n<p>After facing live hitters, the next big step is to make rehabilitation assignments. However, the  don&#8217;t have the option of going to rehabilitation assignments as Otani can&#8217;t afford to have a bat in the lineup every day.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the  could potentially bring batsmen in to face-to-face with some simulated games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More news: <\/strong> will play with $600 million free agent Kyle Tucker&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Roberts admitted that he didn&#8217;t know exactly what it would look like at this point.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/fabianardaya\/status\/1926028362499170738\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The  say they are targeting Otani&#8217;s returns after the All-Star break. That would give him just under two months.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo credit: Brett Davis-Immagn Image<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Have you joined us? <\/em><em>Mismatch Channel<\/em><em>  still? Be part of the ultimate  Snation community and get VIP Nation Access! Don&#8217;t miss out on real-time  stories, call-in access to the  dugout, behind-the-scenes content, exclusive interviews, gifts and more!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles two-way star Shoe Hei Otani is taking a big step to regain his two-way label. On Friday, manager Dave Roberts told reporters that Otani will face live hitters at Citifield on Saturday since undergoing surgery to repair the UCL in September 2023. More news: A hypothetical trade proposal to land Paul Skens on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[16],"class_list":{"0":"post-4372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}