Shohei Ohtani (大谷翔平)’s English acceptance speech, Cubs & Dbacks make a splash & more

Ben Verlander and Alex Curry discuss the recent moves by the Chicago Cubs and Arizona Diamondbacks. Ben gives his thoughts on why the free agency is moving so slowly. Ben continues his countdown of the Top 50 Players for 2024 and the introduction of a new game called ‘Name That Swing’.

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@FlippinBatsPod より:

2024年1月31日 12:28 PM

What did you think of the new game ‘Name That Swing’?

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@johnchieze530 より:

2024年1月31日 12:28 PM

barroids doesn’t belong in the hall when you compare his toothpick body suddenly taking on hercules-like dimensions which was aj complete joke. 100% agreement that schilling belongs but so does charlie hustle based on field performance

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@luismiguelmayo より:

2024年1月31日 12:28 PM

Shohei sometimes lowered his gaze to a paper on the podium but it wasn’t cheat sheet but just draught. His ability of speaking English has been advancing.
From the rough Linguistics POV, romance languages for instance are a family of Indo-European languages, comprise Italian and Spanish etc. Italian speaker can rather easily speak Spanish. English and Germany are brothers, too. Nevertheless Japonic languages have no similar one on the globe coz the country were geographically isolated. Thus it’s comparatively hard for Japanese to learn and master English and vice versa.

I think Shohei has made impossible possible again outside his baseball. No more S.A.S.!!

Sorry for long message.

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@user-lb3no2hm8v より:

2024年1月31日 12:28 PM

Regarding Snell, although he is a 2x cy young winner, if you look at the years he is not, he is not elite and hurt. No way any team will give him 9 years, he may have 3 good years left on the very fatigue arm.

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@Elephant2024 より:

2024年1月31日 12:28 PM

Happy birthday week, Ben. Always found it strange how baseball’s free agency process is so long and drawn out, as compared with the other sports. Makes you wonder if there should be a player signing deadline by MLB for players to sign with their chosen team.

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@harmonydavis6784 より:

2024年1月31日 12:28 PM

I’m sorry the fact that people are mad that Otahni doesn’t speak english all the time and he shouldn’t be the face because he speaks Japanese that’s just dumb

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@harmonydavis6784 より:

2024年1月31日 12:28 PM

Do you think with Mauer getting in first ballot that helps Poseys case getting in first ballot? Also with Jeff Kent he should be in the hall of fame and he isn’t because of the dumb writers

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@yaniyuhara8165 より:

2024年1月31日 12:28 PM

If you think FA market is manipulated, there’s no reason for FA market to exist, Ben. I agree with most of points you make most of the times, but this one insinuates “conspiracy” of some kind and you, as a responsible baseball journalist should NOT utter such a thing unless you have concrete substance behind your assertion.

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@kentosalazar より:

2024年1月31日 12:28 PM

the only reason ohtani speaks through ippei all the time instead of just using english is cause he wants to communicate directly to his Japanese fans.

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