For a long time, the biggest surrounding question AutaniThe future as a pushing was simple.
When, after a Second career Tommy John surgeryWill he finally return to the hill? When, after a year and a half of exclusive beating, will he be able to resume duties?
Last week, this answer finally reached.
Two times in seven days, Outani ascended like EvadingBeginning, throwing The half is one In every picnic in The long -awaited return to the field.
Either way, his teammates and coaches left amazingly, giving them the first glance close to his double skills group.
“I have seen [him throw] Bulls, life, simulation games, or anything else, “the manager Dave Roberts Sunday said. “But to see it in the actual time, move from the hill to the circle on the surface and then go to the mixture box, it’s very cool. He deals with it in the right way. It’s not applicable.”
What comes after that, however, still surrounds some uncertainty.
Now that Ohtani has become again in direct work, new questions remain around the place where its accumulation will go from here.
“It will be a gradual process.” “I want to see improvements with the quality of the stadiums I throw, then increase the amount of stadiums. So it will be gradual.”
It was not surprising that, in Ohani Return to the stadium on June 16Only one. He and the team he and the team he did to return him to a real match soon, and agreed to give him a direct beginning even if they knew that he would not extend to the last half.
However, thinking about the beginning of Ohtiani on Sunday afternoon was that right thinking might be ready to pay to the second-that in the end it extends to full beginnings, will start building the burden of his work by adding another run at a time.
Certainly, the way we set on Sunday justifies the second half.
After abandoning two strikes and running one on the 28 San Diego Padres trip six days ago, he collected two attackers in a run of 18 points against Washington citizens, his only arrival that reaches the stroke fly with Shortstop Mookie best.
“In general, I managed to relax better compared to the last picnic,” Outani said. “The way my body moves when I deal with it, it is something I worked on with the coaches of desire and I felt a great improvement this time.”
However, at the top of the second, Utani was replaced again on the rubber. Although his execution improved and his efficiency, it turned out that the team had made a pre -determined decision not to push him to the second half so far.
“This was the original plan,” Outani said about his removal after the first.
“Going to today’s game, we felt comfortable with one,” Roberts added.
I was affected at home the truth of what awaits her for Ohtani. Caution, methodological, and as Roberts also described it, the “gradual” that the team will deal with with the burden of work at the present time.
“I think it’s more than just an attempt to get the foundation, building blocks as it is [pitching and] Roberts said, “Batter took.”[We are] He makes a mistake on the side of caution … there is no meaning in rushing to it now. “
With Ohtani’s return to promotion, there are new factors that the evaders will monitor in its comprehensive performance.
Indeed, the ruling MVP cut off his base while he was wandering as a pus. The first session of direct multiplication On May 25.
Its place can be changed in the summer place in the days when it starts, as Roberts left the possibility to transfer it in the beating order to give him more time to move from a jug to a strike (at least in the first half of the home games, when he currently has to wander from the hill to the plate after the upper half of the frame).
After that, there may be a greater question: whether the promotion burden will affect the most important ohi production with bats?
This dynamic was scrutinized this week, after Utani went to only two for 19 in the five matches after his first start.
Roberts insisted on Sunday morning: “I don’t think this is something tired.” “But we will manage it. I can only take it in his speech, the speed of the swing and all the things we see in the path are still in a line.”
Utani captured this recession after his run on the hill on Sunday, where he finished three times today three times in the seventh and second house in the eighth place.
“I feel I must work on some things,” said Outani. “But at the same time, I feel I can perform better, even better than I used to be able to perform.”
All this means, while Al -Autani mastered his role in two directions before (winning twice in the American League MVP while doing this with Angels) The evaders do not take anything that is rejected by it now.
Before they start adding to the burden of work in promotion, they want to make sure they represent any unintended side effects.
“All these talks we had with him are clear,” said Roberts. “He understands where he is, where we, and we appreciate the fact that over time, we will reach a certain point.”
Before the Sunday match, Roberts did not completely extend to Ohhani as a traditional start by the second half of the season.
“This is a type of TBD.” “I think we will always be careful. So I don’t even know how it will look so, to be” completely built. “I don’t think anyone knows what it looks. [innings] And 90 [pitches]I don’t even know if we would reach this point. “
Could this mean the use of Ohtani as just a glorious openness for the rest of this season? Or its extension only if the alternate that was currently reduced is not in good health in the end?
Time will have to know these questions, with the absence of evaders or ohtani ready to adhere to any answers until they see how he continues to respond to his return to dual duties.
“As we build more basis, there will be some length lines,” said Roberts. “I think we are still gathering [information]. But again, once we raise more, it may be a different conversation. “
