Facing a rash of injuries to its pitching staff, baseball’s richest team is banking on the 30-year-old Japanese dual threat to resume his role as starting pitcher—and fast.

It's hard, you know, raising the bar when the bar is as high as Shohei Ohtani's. And yet, we're more than a quarter of the way through the 2025 season and the Los Angeles Dodgers' superstar has done just that at the plate.

Manager Dave Roberts stresses how much work the superstar is doing after he threw 29 pitches in a two-inning, live batting practice session Saturday.