Happy Monday, everyone! We’re getting awfully close to the All-Star break, which feels impossible to say, because surely the season just started a month ago, but that also means we’ve got all sorts of fun news and speculation.
For starters, bona fide double-threat Shohei Ohtani just outdid himself, setting a new personal best for pitching mere weeks after finally making his Dodgers pitching debut. We’ll get into the finer details of that below, along with a few more bits and bobs of baseball news.
We’ve learned Ron Washington won’t be returning to the Angels this year; an A’s star is complaining about playing in Sacramento; and another superstar slugger has signed up for the Home Run Derby.