Shohei Ohtani misses pitching, but is his DH-only role boosting his plate production?

Nine months since his last time atop a big league mound, there is one thing about pitching Shohei Ohtani misses most. The nerves. “There’s a distinct nervousness on start days,” Ohtani said in Japanese on Monday, after updating reporters on the latest in his progression back from his second Tommy John surgery last year. “I think that’s the same for everyone,” he added. “There’s a nervousness. So if I have to say whether I miss it — I miss it.

But, with Ohtani not expected to complete his recovery as a pitcher until next season, he said he’d “like to take step by step, and take the next step without any feeling of panic.” There could, of course, be a silver lining to Ohtani’s inability to pitch this year.

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