Shohei Ohtani interested in home run derby but Dodgers sound reluctant

Shohei Ohtani expressed an interest in participating in this summer’s home run derby, but the Dodgers slugger — who has been one of baseball’s best hitters while rehabilitating from his second Tommy John surgery — appears a long way from committing to the event, and the Dodgers seem reluctant to allow him to do it. “I don’t know,” Ohtani said in Japanese following Tuesday night’s 4-3 win over the Chicago White Sox in which he hit his National League-leading 24th home run.

Ohtani looked gassed during the one-minute bonus round, which only highlights the potential dangers of taking so many maximum-effort swings in such a short amount of time for a player recovering from elbow reconstruction surgery. “For the game, I think it's great, for the workload part of it, I'd probably not want him to do it,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said before Wednesday night’s series finale against the White Sox. “For me, I think ultimately I will just defer to him.

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