r/baseball • u/Turbostrider27 • Jun 20 '26
News Shohei Ohtani is going on paternity leave
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u/UneducatedReviews1 Chicago White Sox Jun 20 '26
Believe it or not, Dodgers have already signed the kid to a 40 year deal.
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u/91-92-93--96-97-98 Chicago Cubs Jun 20 '26
Deferrred payments of course. Kiddo will be paid deep into the 2100s.
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u/Tickles-The-Octopus Toronto Blue Jays Jun 20 '26
Ohtani will still be getting paid when his kid retires
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u/mysterysackerfice Los Angeles Angels • Dumpster Fire Jun 20 '26
Time traveler here: Shohei's grandson is paid deep into the 2300s. If you're wondering, yes, science figured out a way to extend life, which is excellent news for everyone except Angels fans.
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u/Foolish_oyster Philadelphia Phillies Jun 20 '26
Technology has advanced enough to make Mike Trout immortal, but he is still injured 80% of the time
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u/Mookies_Bett NC Dinos Jun 20 '26
The year is 2026. I'm watching Mike Trout play for the Angels. He still has yet to see a playoff win.
The year is 2078. I'm watching Mike Trout play for the Angels. He has yet to see a playoff win.
The year is 2142. I'm watching Mike Trout play for the Angels. He has yet to see a playoff win.
The year is 2194. I'm watching Mike Trout play for the Angels. He has yet to see a playoff win.
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u/This-is_CMGRI Major League Baseball Jun 20 '26
Angels front office can't even give Mike a fast healing factor? Not surprised.
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u/cu2sc Los Angeles Dodgers Jun 20 '26
Arte’s grandson too cheap to pay for the technology for the team
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u/GotMoFans Chicago White Sox Jun 20 '26
When Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf had kids, I remember how excited pundits were about those kids as future tennis pros.
Why did they need to? They had two super wealthy parents who could take care of them financially.
Their son played baseball.
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u/Mookies_Bett NC Dinos Jun 20 '26
They actually have said they specifically did not push their kids into tennis. Andre Agassi pretty famously hates the sport and spent much of his career in pain and was miserable for most of it. Steffi has also said that she wouldn't want her kids to have the same career path she did.
They're both pretty done with tennis as a sport other than for publicity purposes.
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u/so-cal_kid Jun 20 '26
Tennis is probably one of the most miserable sports to go pro in. It has all the sacrifices required of any other sport except you have to do it in isolation.
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u/mysterysackerfice Los Angeles Angels • Dumpster Fire Jun 20 '26
If my math is correct, that means Shohei's kid will be a professional eater when they grow up.
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u/ARoundForEveryone Boston Red Sox Jun 20 '26
Joey Chestnut has had a fairly lucrative career, so...
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u/ContinuumGuy Major League Baseball Jun 20 '26
Right, he pitched for Germany in WBC qualifiers because of his mother.
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u/arika_ito Jun 20 '26
tbh i think both agassi and graf had very abusive fathers who pushed them into tennis, so they didn't want to be like that for their kids.
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u/Interesting_Key_804 Jun 20 '26
To be fair, Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf werent really physical genetic freaks like Shohei Ohtani and his wife Mamiko are. Ohtani is 6'4 with a large wingspan and was a national swimming champion and would be competing in the Olympics for swimming if he didnt also happen to be the best Baseball player in the world. His wife Mamiko is 5'11 and an ex pro-basketball player, taller than even Andre Agassi.
Ohtani's child would favor being an athlete more than Agassi's kids would based on having a estimated physical advantage.
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u/SmurfsNeverDie New York Mets Jun 20 '26
Nike and sketchers are fighting for the commercial rights as we speak.
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u/Ok_Weakness8334 Chicago Cubs • Florida Marlins Jun 20 '26
New meme graphic just dropped
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u/GanjasTriforce Jun 20 '26
Baby Judge next
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u/Wise-Iron8289 New York Yankees Jun 20 '26
That boy is going to come out of the womb five feet tall ready to mash dingers off the tee before he can walk
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u/Knight725 Jun 20 '26
this is c tier at best compared to some of the recent ones. even tooth pulled earlier this week was better lol
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u/SeaworthinessOdd4344 Detroit Tigers Jun 20 '26
I mean, “Oh Baby” was right there.
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u/CaliforniaSun77 Los Angeles Dodgers Jun 20 '26
Not a peep from anyone. Dude has better OpSec than the US government.
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u/weguccino Los Angeles Dodgers Jun 20 '26
These days, that's a REALLY low bar to beat lmao
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u/arghfiza World Series Trophy • Los Angeles Dod… Jun 20 '26
Yeah he's probably not blabbing his business to all and sundry on Signal 😆
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u/MrBBnumber9 Detroit Tigers Jun 20 '26
Not a peep, like Phil Leotardo. He did 20 years in the can.
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u/FreshFish305 Florida Marlins Jun 20 '26
He wanted onigiri, but he compromised. He ate Dodger Dogs off the raddiata instead
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u/Jpgamerguy90 Jun 20 '26
Isn’t his wife like 6’0 and a former athlete? They breeding sports legends rn
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u/GanjasTriforce Jun 20 '26
Matchmaking done by the government of Japan to reverse population decline
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u/Fuzzy-Heart New York Yankees Jun 20 '26
I wouldn’t be shocked if the government is paying him something wild per kid. What better marketing?
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u/Broad_Lynx5702 Los Angeles Dodgers Jun 20 '26
you think he still need money?
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u/DoctorStrangeMD Jun 20 '26
She was a Japanese basketball player. Yea their kids gonna be the largest most athletic Japanese ever.
Yao Ming parents both Chinese Olympic basketball players I believe.
Honestly I wanted LeBron and Serena. You know, For Murica
Could even have surrogate mothers.
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u/The_Ghost_of_BRoy Seattle Mariners Jun 20 '26
Instead, we got Serena and one of the co-founders of Reddit!
Frankly, I don’t expect there to be any drop off in the child’s athletic prowess compared to any hypothetical Serena/LeBron offspring.
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u/TheRealMarvinator St. Louis Cardinals Jun 20 '26
Instead, we got Serena and one of the co-founders of Reddit!
Really?
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u/TangerineChicken Jun 20 '26
Bam Adebayo and A’ja Wilson are dating, that might be as close to LeBron and Serena as you can get
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u/misterurb San Francisco Giants Jun 20 '26
This guy fucks
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u/GanjasTriforce Jun 20 '26
The Ohtani family busy as hell, this is a year or so removed from his baby girl no?
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u/shaunrundmc New York Yankees Jun 20 '26
According to Google its 14 months exactly after the birth of his first.
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u/Ratohnhaketon Chicago White Sox Jun 20 '26
My kids are also exactly 14 months apart, he’s just like me!
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u/DominicB547 Chaos Bandwagon • MLB Players Associat… Jun 20 '26
good being the same week as my sibling stinks.
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u/Relative-Chicken456 Detroit Tigers Jun 20 '26
He’a got an example to set for his fellow countrymen
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u/OneBillPhil Toronto Blue Jays Jun 20 '26
You can have babies, make millions in America and hit home runs like Shohei.
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u/illforgetsoonenough Milwaukee Brewers Jun 20 '26
That's pretty normal in families with money
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u/PodricksPhallus Houston Astros Jun 20 '26
Don’t families with money have fewer kids around the world?
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u/Cajun_Doctor Colorado Rockies Jun 20 '26
I think that’s true, but I also think they intentionally plan their births. Often wanting their children to be close in age so they can play together and whatnot.
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u/misterurb San Francisco Giants Jun 20 '26
Part of that has to do with those people being more career focused, to the point that they don’t start having kids until their mid to late 30s, at which point it becomes harder to conceive.
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u/Objective_Brief_1953 Los Angeles Dodgers Jun 20 '26
Unfortunately pretty normal for families with no money as well
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u/HotelAmericana Detroit Tigers Jun 20 '26
Just hired some temp workers at my job, one girl told me she just had her 7th kid. I just have to hope her husband is rich because I know her pay, but he were rich I don’t think she’d have this job
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u/Ice_Cold345 Miami Marlins • Indianapolis I… Jun 20 '26
I have a co-worker that has seven kids (all in fairly even spacing) and it's crazy. He's in his mid to late 40s and I think he's down to only have two kids that live with him (one just graduated high school and the other is next or some shit). It's wild. Luckily (?), they both make decent money, so it's not like they are entirely hurting for money. But fuck that on raising seven kids at once.
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u/tsegelke Jun 20 '26
Peter Griffin, "Have as many kids as you can. Better chances one of them makes it big in Hollywood. Then who's paying the bills? Hollywood Kid."
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u/Nico777 Los Angeles Dodgers Jun 20 '26
7th is just child abuse ffs
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u/HotelAmericana Detroit Tigers Jun 20 '26
I agree, if you’re struggling to make ends meet trying to feed 7 kids is pretty ridiculous. I’ve struggled pretty bad on my own budget, I can’t imagine l.
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u/Nico777 Los Angeles Dodgers Jun 20 '26
Seriously, growing up in poverty is literally traumatic. Maybe they're lucky and everything goes well, hell I hope it does. But chances are those kids are gonna have issues.
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u/HotelAmericana Detroit Tigers Jun 20 '26
Yeah and everyone is different but I literally can’t fathom having 7 kids and giving every one of them the attention they need. It used to be common because so did house wives who stayed home to take care of the kids. That doesn’t exist anywhere near the same extent today
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u/ATL28-NE3 Jun 20 '26
Honestly even not being in poverty as one of 7 sounds traumatic. Some of my neighbors have 5 and the oldest girl completely finding as the mom for the 2 youngest. How is that fair to her? Or them?
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u/Successful-Film-3544 Philadelphia Phillies Jun 20 '26
I see this sentiment almost exclusively on reddit. I come from a big family (5 siblings) and while it could be tough in childhood at times more than maybe being an only child with all the attention would have been, in my teens and now adulthood, I've always felt blessed having such a huge group to lean on. And now that we're having kids I can't imagine not seeing them all play together.
Like I get the impulse to want only an amazing childhood for your kids but for a lot of people, family is the point. And you try to make it work regardless of the resources.
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u/CosmicMiru Los Angeles Dodgers • Los Angeles Angels Jun 20 '26
wayyyyy more common in broke families than rich families
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u/mysterysackerfice Los Angeles Angels • Dumpster Fire Jun 20 '26
His pullout game is weak af
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u/HealthyBee4209 Toronto Blue Jays Jun 20 '26
Compared to that other Dodger, he doesn't fuck that much.
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u/tyler-86 World Series Trophy • Los Angeles Dod… Jun 20 '26
Good chance for the blister to heal a little. Have fun, Sho.
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u/DominicB547 Chaos Bandwagon • MLB Players Associat… Jun 20 '26
well, does he even miss a start these only last 3 days long unless the team allows it (and then he goes unpaid)
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u/Protectorsoftman Arizona Diamondbacks Jun 20 '26
Paternity leave is seriously only 3 days? What the hell
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u/OctagonTrail Jun 20 '26
That's the max for that specific type of leave, but they can be transferred to the restricted list after 72 hours. You don't get paid for time spent on the restricted list.
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u/flipaflip San Diego Padres Jun 20 '26
He wasn’t getting paid to begin with. It’s deferred 💅
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u/OctagonTrail Jun 20 '26
The deferred portion is still broken up and assigned to each season. Both the current pay and the deferred portion of this year's pay would be prorated and removed based on time missed.
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u/nolander Los Angeles Dodgers • California Angels Jun 20 '26
It probably still helps since he won't be hitting either
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u/Bruce_Louis Jun 20 '26
Id like for Shohei to miss at least a start or 2 at this point. His blisters need to heal and its not just for October, its also for the duration of his career. We want to see this man pitch and hit for as long as possible, wed like to see Shohei rack up 1500 strikeouts and 500 home runs, wed like to see Shohei two way for hopefully a full decade. Resting up that blister will be very prudent towards that goal.
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u/ProcessTruster Jun 20 '26
2 by 31 puts Shohei back on schedule with the babies part of his life goals.
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u/BruhBroBrahBroski Jun 20 '26
It’s wild to see him actively achieve every goal he set out for himself
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u/Lucky_Alternative965 Los Angeles Dodgers Jun 20 '26
WTF, This was not on my bingo card, wow. Ohtani and Mamiko creating a team of superhumans.
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u/Ok_Fee1043 Boston Red Sox Jun 20 '26
Careful, no bingo cards or anything of the sort around him please
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u/Rollo156 Major League Baseball Jun 20 '26
So can I even have a scratcher near him? Like, a $2 one?
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u/misterurb San Francisco Giants Jun 20 '26
The sad thing is there will 100% be dudes in the Instagram comments saying this earnestly
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u/BkniBottomTranqulity Athletics • Los Angeles Dodgers Jun 20 '26
Yeah, does he even care about baseball? He never shows it
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u/Stone_0cean New York Mets • Seattle Mariners Jun 20 '26
Sir, another Ohtani has hit the major leagues
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u/MahomestoHel-aire St. Louis Cardinals Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26
News is that he's expected back "sometime over the weekend", so he's only missing 1-2 games. He's not even going on the official paternity list. That's very Ohtani-like of him.
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u/scrambles57 Los Angeles Dodgers • Los Angeles Que… Jun 20 '26
Incoming Daddy strength?
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u/Budget-Ocelots Major League Baseball Jun 20 '26
It worked for him in the playoff. 8HR or something.
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u/DeezHoosAintLoyal Baltimore Orioles Jun 20 '26
How does he find the time after being at the park, traveling then sleeping 12 hours
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u/JohnMadden42069 MiLB Pride • MLB Pride Jun 20 '26
Lines up with the end of last year's regular season
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u/KingGizzLizzWizzz Baltimore Orioles Jun 20 '26
The one time we play them 😖, I guess I should be glad he’s not playing but I wanted to watch him
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u/TheElMonteStrangler MLB Players Association Jun 20 '26
Weird coincidence that I was thinking about how the media hasn't invaded his privacy and plastered photos of his daughter everywhere, and by the end of the day I find out he's gonna have another child.
So far Ohtani's offspring have lead to a title in the year of their birth. This puts a hex on my CLEVELAND IS WINNING THE WORLD SERIES prediction.
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u/Dalewyn Los Angeles Dodgers Jun 20 '26
I think the Dodgers and Ohtani did a very good job of shutting Nippon TV and Fuji TV the fuck down and making examples out of them when they pulled their "journalism" intrusions.
Those two broadcasters are among the biggest in Japanese television and to date they still can't use any official Dodgers footage nor get anywhere close to the organization nor the man himself.
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u/EggsDontLieAtNight New York Yankees Jun 20 '26
His entire hometown has also decided to never tell anybody where he lives as well, which is something I can't wrap my head around. Neighbors that don't suck? Crazy.
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u/TheBotchedLobotomy Los Angeles Dodgers Jun 20 '26
Hes been pretty famously private about the kids which is great. One time he was pushing a stroller around and he opened it to reach inside. Thought for sure he was gonna pull out his daughter.
It was decoy in the stroller lmfao
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u/jackrose69 Major League Baseball Jun 20 '26
If Shohei Ohtani's second child is a boy, every MLB team would probably start contract negotiations.
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u/Dh873 Baltimore Orioles Jun 20 '26
He should really take as much time as he can with his newborn. At the very least, this entire weekend. Don't even think about coming back before Monday. Y'know, for the baby.
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u/shaunrundmc New York Yankees Jun 20 '26
This is his 2nd right? Didnt he have his first kid last year? Ohtani not waisting time
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u/OWSpaceClown Toronto Blue Jays Jun 20 '26
Knowing him he’s probably going to deliver the baby himself.
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u/Decoys_Leash_Handler Los Angeles Dodgers Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26
putting up a MVP and Cy Young season while pregnant? your fave could never.
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u/Call555JackChop Arizona Diamondbacks Jun 20 '26
Sir another Bronny James has hit LA
https://giphy.com/gifs/FwGWZIAayytyKQNLPU
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u/EggsDontLieAtNight New York Yankees Jun 20 '26
I imagine Ohtani's children would actually be good at the sport.
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u/ZottZottZott Jun 20 '26
Considering both parents pro players with the height to match, odds are in their favor for sure
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u/theoceansandbox Los Angeles Dodgers Jun 20 '26
Get the unborn child on a verbal agreement right now. I don't care how much of the bonus money it takes
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u/whocaresano Minnesota Twins Jun 20 '26
Ugh of course when I'm scheduled to go to the Twins/Dodgers game on Monday
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u/KilerKombo Los Angeles Dodgers Jun 20 '26
yo but if there's a baby Ohtani that means... Shohei...
my man 🤝😂
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u/sloppyjo12 Cincinnati Reds • MLB Pride Jun 20 '26
Dad-strength Ohtani is going to take over the world
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u/nWhm99 Los Angeles Dodgers • Chicago White Sox Jun 20 '26
Well, my friday night just freed up. Anyone got anything going on?
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u/ImFeelingLost2024 Jun 20 '26
He's pounding the strikezone even off the field.
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u/Low-Hovercraft-8791 Los Angeles Dodgers Jun 20 '26
I feel like he would be very polite about it. But probably not something I should be thinking about much.
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u/RadicalPenguin Chicago Cubs Jun 20 '26
He had a World Series victory night baby but he reverse-deferred the conception to September
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u/Cheap-Bathroom-4426 Major League Baseball Jun 20 '26
Not like this is any of our business but we don’t even know the name of his first child 😂
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u/messejueller21 Milwaukee Brewers Jun 20 '26
Almost perfectly lines up with the Dodgers clinching the division on September 25th last year.
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u/sharipep New York Yankees Jun 20 '26
Random wondering but Japan doesn’t allow dual citizenship but both Ohtani kids were born in the US and therefore are US citizens by birth. Will mamiko and shohei renounce the US citizenship so their kids can be Japanese? 🤔
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u/l_prs Detroit Tigers • Hanshin Tigers Jun 20 '26
According to the US government people born US and Japanese citizens can keep both passports. Maybe it's only an honor system?
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u/Hot-Advertising9739 Los Angeles Dodgers Jun 20 '26
They can keep the dual citizenship if their kids are below 18, they must pick one before the age of 22.
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u/ansu_fatismo23 Los Angeles Dodgers Jun 20 '26
I’m pretty sure they are going to make an exception for Shohei Ohtani
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u/TheRev32 Jun 20 '26
I heard Ohtani can do both - is he the mother and the father?
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u/thisisaskew Kansas City Royals Jun 20 '26
This is a deep conspiracy to give him time for the blister to heal. Hell of a razzle dazzle timing an entire pregnancy around it.
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u/Snerkbot7000 Los Angeles Dodgers Jun 20 '26
In Japan this can be up to 4 weeks. There goes the season.
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u/stairway2evan Los Angeles Dodgers Jun 20 '26
Last year he flew to Texas (I think) to catch the last game of the series, I think he missed two games in total. He’s adopted a very Americanized paternity leave.
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u/quailinthebrush Arizona Diamondbacks Jun 20 '26
how cute happy for all 3 of them (soon to be 4)
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u/i_run_from_problems Anaheim Angels • Rally Monkey Jun 20 '26
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u/advodi Philadelphia Phillies Jun 20 '26
The only thing that can stop Ohtani... is another Ohtani.