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Shohei Ohtani's Fantastic Season for the Angels Continues on Both Sides of the Ball

SI's Tom Verducci shares Ohtani's numbers at the plate and on the mound that have resulted in a legendary season.

Tom Verducci

Shohei Ohtani is still getting things done on both offense and defense this season. Two days after Ohtani was bumped from a start due to a sore arm, he went for eight innings with ten strikeouts. SI's Tom Verducci shares Ohtani's numbers at the plate and on the mound that have resulted in a legendary season.

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Tom Verducci
TOM VERDUCCI

Tom Verducci is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated who has covered Major League Baseball since 1981. He also serves as an analyst for FOX Sports and the MLB Network; is a New York Times best-selling author; and cohosts The Book of Joe podcast with Joe Maddon. A five-time Emmy Award winner across three categories (studio analyst, reporter, short form writing) and nominated in a fourth (game analyst), he is a three-time National Sportswriter of the Year winner, two-time National Magazine Award finalist, and a Penn State Distinguished Alumnus Award recipient. Verducci is a member of the National Sports Media Hall of Fame, Baseball Writers Association of America (including past New York chapter chairman) and a Baseball Hall of Fame voter since 1993. He also is the only writer to be a game analyst for World Series telecasts. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, with whom he has two children.

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