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Dodgers’ Andrew Friedman Reveals Mindset of Bringing Shohei Ohtani Back as Pitcher

Los Angeles Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman recently spoke about his mindset regarding Shohei Ohtani’s process of returning to the pitcher’s mound.

The three-time MVP hasn’t thrown off the rubber in an MLB contest since August 23, 2023 — a game where he tossed a pair of strikeouts over 1.1 innings and collected a pair of RBIs in the batter’s box the same day.

Friedman knows more than anybody the kind of value that Ohtani brings solely as an MVP-caliber slugger, but the team president is looking much further than this current season.

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“Viewing it on a shorter-term horizon, it’s easy to want to be aggressive and push- I think both from him and from us,” Friedman said.